Coming To One's Senses

SOMETIMES people lose their senses, sometimes they come to their senses. among the losers are late life Christian converts, who are always the most fanatical. Radio talk show host Chris Plante was once a progressive, lost his mind, and now rants on the right wing airwaves. David Brock was once in charge of the vast right wind conspiracy, his job being to find or fabricate damaging information about the Clintons. After researching them he came to admire them, and finally converted to a Clinton progressive. his book "Blinded By teh Right" tells his story of conversion to the light and renunciation of the dark side. Stuart Stevens was a long time political operative an campaign strategist, who ran the successful election campaigns of man prominent Republicans. then, along came Trump, and Stevens, like all decent conservatives, jumped ship, became an avid anti-Trump activist, and is even now working with the "Lincoln Project", a group of well funded Republican defectors helping got Joe Biden elected. His new book "It Was All A Lie" discusses his thoughts concerning why the Republican party decided to give its support to an obviously unfit man like Donald Trump, and become the party of Trump. He points out that in order to achieve this, it was necessary for the party to abandon all of its traditional core principles and values, such as fiscal restraint, balanced budgets, family values, and individual integrity and virtue. Stevens calls the G.O.P. a party of cowards, afraid to stand up to a leader they well know is not fit for office, corrupt, a pathological liar. He further asserts that many if not most republicans know full well that Trump is unqualified, and has made a mockery out of the presidency in his disastrous term in the White House. And yet, they remain passive, and silent. The G.O.P. has become the white christian party, the "Christian" part referring to formal religious affiliation, not actually following the message of Jesus.the party lacks any semblance of ethnic or ideological diversity. More than half of the people in American under the age of fifteen are non white; this does not bode wall for the Republican future, which after its second defeat by Obama pledged to become more culturally diverse, but still hasn't. Stevens predicts that over the next few years the Republican party will dwindle into insignificance. sometimes, for the better of society, such predictions come true.