If so, welcome back to the civilized world, boys, because we need two competitive parties in this country — to keep each other honest, and keep our politics from going off the rails.
“Rep. Liz Cheney, under fire from … Trump” and the batshit-crazies who believe his election lies, “is picking up support from some influential Republicans,” including Mitch McConnell, who called her “a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them,” and “an important leader in our party and in our nation,” CNN reported on Monday, February 1, 2021 (read story here).
McConnell also blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “looney lies” and alluded to her as a “cancer for the Republican Party,” according to NBC News (story here).
Hey, that may not seem like much, but there’s more. Daniel Greenfield, a protege of movement conservative David Horowitz, blogged,
“We don’t need antisemitic kooks in this movement. And we don’t need crazies who think the X-Files are real. What we need is to take the fight to the Left by exposing their agenda. And we can’t do that when guys in horned helmets and girls in tin foil hats are running amuck.”
And he’s not the only conservative intelligentsium who thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene is batshit-crazy and the GOP needs to get rid of her (he appears to be wishing her on the Democrats); there are more GOP thinkers like him out there. (Read this story
here).
That Greene [photo, above] is a drag on the GOP’s gravitas isn’t debatable. Even a tinfoil hat is too small for her. Republicans may as well throw her overboard, because if they don’t, the Democrats will (read that story
here).
But perhaps more important than how Republican leaders react to Greene’s antics is how they respond to Trump’s (whose contempt for our way of government is nothing like my contempt for
him, given his lack of honesty, decency, compassion, etc.). Jonathan Turley, “who testified in defense of Trump during House hearings on his first impeachment,”
The Hill reported
here, “said it would be a ‘serious mistake’ to tailor the defense” in his second impeachment trial “around claims of election fraud” as Trump wanted, causing his legal team to quit, because that “could change the minds of a number of” Republican senators “who would view that argument as a sign of contempt for the institution.”
This suggests that at least some GOP senators, despite their stubborn refusal to defend our democratic institutions and the rule of law from Trump’s onslaught to date, may still have some feelings for those institutions and possibly might even stir themselves to defend them if, say, Trump starting treating them with the contempt he’s shown for disabled people, migrant children, journalists, critics and opponents, and soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. That’s not much, it’s actually very little, but it makes conceivable the notion that Republicans might someday be talked into believing in the bedrock principles and values of our nation again.
And that would be a positive development for the American Experiment. You don’t have to agree with Republicans to want them to be hominids instead of jungle predators. Can’t we just put down the guns and have snowball fights, like in the old days? (Read about that
here.)
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If so, welcome back to the civilized world, boys, because we need two competitive parties in this country — to keep each other honest, and keep our politics from going off the rails.
“The irony of the Information Age is that it has given respectability to uninformed opinion.” — John Lawton (veteran reporter), speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995
Maggie’s uninformed political beliefs and opinions do not give the appearance of respectability, and neither does she.
IMO the GOP would do serious damage to itself by failing to repudiate Greene.