Having been around for nearly three-quarters of a century and politically aware for over a half century (like a lot of high school kids back then, I had a dread of Vietnam, almost a sense of doom. Eventually the lottery delivered doom for some, deliverance for others), everything about the present leads me to think the MAGA GOP has put themselves in a loser of a political position.
Hey, it happened to Dems. At one time, we were seen as cozying up to 60s radicals, soft on crime, soft on civil lights ‘radicals’, anti-tradition on every front. Turns out we were correct on some of those, and the country moved our way.
But everything I have seen in present times leads me to the conclusion that the MAGA right are running to lose. Every idea seems designed to appeal to a somewhat nutty minority or to some intolerant and isolated minority.
If you’re not old enough to remember one of the funniest lines in TV history, google “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” from WKRP
Trump, DeSantis, McCarthy and the other MAGA dopes are perfectly caught by that clip. They continue to promote ideas that are anathema to majorities in the country, be it guns, abortion, voting rights, reconstruction-era practices in their supermajority state legislatures, book bans, free speech attacks, border chaos caused by their refusal to legislate, and so on and so on. There’s no way the country moves their way, though, and at some point the GOP will find themselves in the wilderness.
I am perfectly aware that we all have to work our asses off for the coming election if we want to win a trifecta again. But I will remain perplexed if the Dems don’t win in a landslide.
I think it was Dan I heard say the MAGA right think the right wing media is a window, when in fact it is a mirror. I'm not sure they are running to lose, I think they think that this stuff is popular.
Having been around for nearly three-quarters of a century and politically aware for over a half century (like a lot of high school kids back then, I had a dread of Vietnam, almost a sense of doom. Eventually the lottery delivered doom for some, deliverance for others), everything about the present leads me to think the MAGA GOP has put themselves in a loser of a political position.
Hey, it happened to Dems. At one time, we were seen as cozying up to 60s radicals, soft on crime, soft on civil lights ‘radicals’, anti-tradition on every front. Turns out we were correct on some of those, and the country moved our way.
But everything I have seen in present times leads me to the conclusion that the MAGA right are running to lose. Every idea seems designed to appeal to a somewhat nutty minority or to some intolerant and isolated minority.
If you’re not old enough to remember one of the funniest lines in TV history, google “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” from WKRP
Trump, DeSantis, McCarthy and the other MAGA dopes are perfectly caught by that clip. They continue to promote ideas that are anathema to majorities in the country, be it guns, abortion, voting rights, reconstruction-era practices in their supermajority state legislatures, book bans, free speech attacks, border chaos caused by their refusal to legislate, and so on and so on. There’s no way the country moves their way, though, and at some point the GOP will find themselves in the wilderness.
I am perfectly aware that we all have to work our asses off for the coming election if we want to win a trifecta again. But I will remain perplexed if the Dems don’t win in a landslide.
I think it was Dan I heard say the MAGA right think the right wing media is a window, when in fact it is a mirror. I'm not sure they are running to lose, I think they think that this stuff is popular.
I agree with you. My comment was not about their delusional belief that their ideas are popular. It was about the reality that they are blind to.
I'd add this column from Mr. Dan Rather to the list, this week: https://steady.substack.com/p/the-danger-of-horse-race-politics