General Discussion

The only difference between now vs. 15 years ago is that the respectable facade has been sloughed away from the rancid heart of the beast and the foul stench of the thing released. We’re just more able to see them as they’ve always been. Die sind alle so. They’re Republicans. When we start to think of them as something else, as something particularly obscene and scurrilous, we implicitly offer them an out, an avenue for rehabilitating the GOP. They’ll say oh it wasn’t us, the true Republicans, it was them over there, the Trumpanzees, the enemies of us. And then they regroup and build their next assault on democracy. In reality it truly is Democrats vs. Republicans, and the GOP must be razed and the ground it stood on (unfettered me-first capitalism) must be salted and salted again.