In 2008 there was a collapsing job market, a stock market
in free fall and two wars that stretched as far into the future as the
mind's eye could see. The Republican party was not an easy fit for
anyone, and there were considerations of its imminent demise.
So what brilliant strategy accounts for the reversal, six
years later, of its declining fortunes? It is in the relentless attack
on the most vulnerable.
Don't extend unemployment benefits, don't raise the minimum
wage, don't support health care reforms to insure the basic welfare of
the underclass. Rid our society of those who infiltrate from over the
borders. These are the enemies.
It is in the negatives that this party has risen from the
ashes. Mr. Douthat gives them far too much wholly undeserved support
when concluding that they are somehow not the party of the rich.
The Republican party deserves enmity, not praise, for
backing into a powerful position predicated on messages of hate, fear
and survival of the fittest. If playing to our worst instincts is truly
how to attract the middle class and the well to do, then this is very
sad commentary on the state of our nation.
1 comment:
Spot on about the Repubs
PB
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