Defeating Craziness

ALL ACROSS America's fruited plain, all across our great nation this fall, Republicans will be running for offices such as congressperson or election commissioner who are outspokenly, devotedly, election deniers, embracers of Trump's big stolen election lie. They will be running because they defeated other Republican candidates in the primaries who are not election deniers or supporters of Trump; it is still Trump's party, and one must support Trump, including his big lie, to succeed within it. This unto itself is terribly alarming. The thought that election deniers might get elected to positions of high office, overseeing elections, is beyond alarming. Their Democrat opponents, if they are smart, will during the fall campaign constantly remind the voters that there is no way in hell we the people want to elect election deniers to any public office, including dog catcher, for one simple reason: election deniers are demonstrably either crazy, dishonest, or both, and thus, unqualified to hold office. In order to be accepted as a player/decision maker/candidate for high office in the Republican party, you must be an election denier, meaning you must be crazy, dishonest, or both. This is merely one example, one symptom, of the massive descent of the Republican party, of conservative America, of conservative evangelical Christian America, into insanity. There are many more, as proven by the fact that seventy percent of Republicans still insist the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and the same seventy percent still believe that Trump's violent insurrection at the Capitol and his attempt to overturn Biden's election vicroty were and still are noble, worthwhile undertakeings, all in the pursuit of justice and the American way. These people are insane, deluded, like Hitler's NAZI followers. This descent of teh Grand Ole party is being closely observedby man keen observers. Among the most astute is Tim Miller, whose book "Why We Did It: a Travelogue of the Republican Road To Hell" provides insight into the causes of this tragic demise of a once center right party of reason into a mob of far right wing advocates of populist authoritarianism, the cult of Trump. Miller is a born again, reformed former conservative Republican hit man, whose function was to smear Democratic candidates and produce anti-progressive propaganda. But he drew the line at Atump, refusing to supprt what was obviously to Miller a severely unethical scam artist. In this sense his book reads like a confesion; Miller takes the blame for helping to enable Trump's rise, by providing advice which was followed. He seems genuinely remorseful. It reminds one of David Brock, himself a right wing operative turned progressive strategist, and his seminal book: "Blinded By the Right". Brock was assigned to stalk and research the Clintons, but the more he learned about them, the more he admired them. Through journalists, their process of elucidation of public afairs, we the American people might finally be awakening to the reality of what an absolutely horrible and harmful organization the Republican party has become. For our sake, let us hope.