Ugliness from the GOP keeps popping up all over the place.
If you want to see some if it, then just read the vile things that some so-called “Republicans” said about John McCain before he died.
McCain understood that he served the citizens of Arizona first, which is why he refused to kowtow to Donald Trump and the Party of Trump (the latter which pretends to be Republican). Because he refused to kowtow, McCain was labeled a RINO, when he was just the opposite, as the USA Today editorial board explains:
Sadly, his [McCain’s] death serves as an almost perfect metaphor for the death of the old Republican Party, the one personified in the past 100-plus years by the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. It was a party that believed, like McCain, that the United States should stand for the advance of freedom abroad and the rule of law at home. It was confident that American commerce could compete with anyone, and that immigration was essential to a growing nation.
In remarkably short order, that party has been turned into a Donald Trump cheering section. It has adopted Trump’s previously un-Republican positions on trade, immigration and authoritarianism, while enabling his childish outbursts and ethical outrages.
In short, many in today’s GOP are woefully lacking in character and pragmatism, the very McCain hallmarks that made him such an invaluable senator and statesman.
Ugliness from so-called “Republicans” also revealed itself after Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto gave a monologue in which he accuses President Trump of creating a moral bust.
In that monologue, Cavuto exposes a reality that way too many Republicans don’t want to admit to.
Those living in a fantasy don’t like it when someone points out reality. Thus, those living in a fantasy turn ugly when anyone dares to expose their fantasy for what it is.
What fantasies you ask?
First, there is the fantasy about building a wall across the USA’s entire southern border. The GOP members who demand it don’t realize how unfeasible it would be to build a wall that wouldn’t harm the environment and that would be effective, while maintaining and manning the wall 24/7.
Then there is the fantasy about the USA’s identity that is illustrated by remarks made by Laura Ingraham.
Ingraham forgot to mention the original American people. They had massive demographic changes foisted upon them, changes that none of them ever voted for and most of them didn’t like. Those massive demographic changes were the result of Europeans (including Ingraham’s ancestors) moving to North America and changing the culture that the Native Americans had known for centuries.
Then there is this fantasy as reported by The Hill: “Researchers: Fear of America losing Christian identity motivates many Trump voters”
Here is an excerpt:
Another fantasy coming from Republicans pertains to the USA’s media.
A majority of Republicans agree with President Trump’s charge that the news media is “the enemy of the American people,” according to a poll released Tuesday [14 August 2018].
The Quinnipiac poll shows a deep partisan divide on the issue, with 51 percent of Republicans surveyed agreeing with Trump’s frequent line rather than viewing the media as an important component of a democracy, while just 5 percent of Democratic and 24 percent of independent respondents felt the same way.
A poll from Ipsos asking the same question on Aug. 7 showed a similar result on the Republican side, with 48 percent of Republicans surveyed saying they believed the media is the people’s enemy. Twelve percent of Democrats polled and 26 percent of independents in the sample agreed with the enemy perspective.
One of the lesser fantasies from Republicans is one in which global warming hasn’t been taking place.
Kip Hansen exposes the reality: “General warming started about 1650-1700, maybe a little earlier, and has been ongoing. When warming doesn’t start is 1880/1890 — it starts a hundred and fifty to two hundred years earlier — earlier than the start of the increased CO2 output of the modern Industrial Era.”
Another lesser fantasy says that one can be a real Republican and/or a real Conservative while saying and doing things that the GOP’s founders were opposed to. Yes, some so-called “Republicans” and so-called “Conservatives” are more like the foes that the GOP’s founders fought against. Those so-called “Republicans” and so-called “Conservatives” tend to double down on stupid whenever anyone shines the light of reality on their fantasy.
They are the real RINOs.
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