Jonathan V. Last is one of the Voices of Authority over at The Bulwark website. A very big wheel. And here is a thing he had to say about the Republican Party just days ago:
Last: I don't think I've said this on your show but I have... I have floated this elsewhere because this is really the... the largest thesis that I've been working on and I'm... I... I bring this up to you. Charlie, because I'd like to hear your reaction to it. Understand I am not 100 committed to this -- I'm like 80 of the way there to believing this. But my thesis is that, in its current configuration, the Republican Party represents a clear and present danger to our democracy. What do you think? Is that too much at this point.
Cool.
Well now that we're all in agreement, lets divvy up the enormous amount of work that needs to be done in the way that makes the most sense. Never Trumpers can start by putting their own back yard in order by rooting out all that has gone so terribly wrong inside their Republican Party with all the ruthlessness they used to build that Republican Party in the first place. And the rest of us -- those who haven't spent our adult lives incubating a fascist movement inside the dead husk of the Party of Lincoln -- will busy ourselves trying to repair all that the Republican Party has corrupted or destroyed.
Except...
Last: That's what we've seen from the Republican Party for the last five years.
Sykes: This is... this is the story of the Republican Party over the last four or five years.
I guess I didn't make myself clear. We're looking for the origins of the wingnut virus. The laboratory where your unholy Republican experiments were performed, not the shambling, rotting monster that finally -- long after it was too late -- kicked the doors off the lab and ran out of your control. Mr. Last, why do you go ahead an take another crack at it.
Last: The thing that I found the most disorienting of the over the last five years...
Sykes: ...and... and in my life over the last four or five years.
Last: This isn't... this is not the kind of thing that would have even been thinkable before four years ago.
Sykes: ...I will tell you that the events of the last 30 days have strengthened that. I mean it's... it's... there was a time before the election when you could make a case for the recovery of the party, but this is almost as if...
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Just wait until January 20th at 12:01pm...or as Republicans will be calling it: Year Zero.
Republicans, including never-Trumpers, only care about one thing: winning!
Never-Trumpers are those Republicans that can see that the strategy they've so successfully used for the last forty years is wearing out its usefulness as it cannot help growing progressively more and more extreme.
Since it was all built on a fantasy anyway, why not just imagine a whole new timeline? It doesn't matter one bit, just as long as they continue to do whatever it takes to win.
I had a good chuckle today when the local paper had a column, by who I didn't look, for all I saw was the headline. 'Conspiracy has no place in Conservatism'. That's a real knee slapper. It's like saying no drinking while boating. Cripes, there wouldn't be boating if there wasn't drinking.
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