The Dark Heart of the Republican Party

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The Dark Heart of the Republican Party

November 1, 2022 at 9:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/01/the-dark-heart-of-the-republican-party/

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Tom Nichols: “It might seem late in the game to point to any one event as a final or conclusive moment in the decline of the Republican Party. And I have no doubt that if the GOP returns to power this winter, its worst members will find new ways to appall decent people while gamboling about in jester’s bells for its base. (As my Atlantic colleague Adam Serwer has put it so well, ‘The cruelty is the point.’) But the reaction among Republican elected officials and their conservative-media life-support system to the beating of Paul Pelosi—by a man named David DePape, who was charged with attempting to kidnap Speaker Nancy Pelosi and admitted to planning to torture her—feels different.”

“I am not alone; my friend Mona Charen, among others, also senses that this event marks a new level of depravity in the GOP. I have struggled for a few days to decide why, exactly, this moment seems like an inflection point. In terms of actual damage, January 6 was far worse than one violent crime in San Francisco. Republican leaders—and here I will leave aside Donald Trump, who is in a class of hideousness all by himself—have said far worse things over the past five years. But a parade of Republicans somehow think that an unhinged, hammer-wielding intruder putting an old man in the ICU is funny…”

“One might think that it would be easy for America, as one nation, to condemn an attempt to kidnap the woman second in line to the presidency that resulted in the beating of her husband with a hammer. As Ernest Hemingway would say: Pretty to think so. Instead, we have seen the dark heart of the Republican Party, with a reaction so callous, so flippantly sadistic, so hateful, that it all feels irredeemable.”

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[Wingus Dingus]

1. Well said. I don't think there's any coming back from this nastiness.

They've gone feral.

[vlyons]

2. Depraved and degenerate

nt

[bluescribbler]

3. Irredeemable, indeed

They are the absolute worst. GOTV!!!

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[NullTuples]

4. As scary as disheartening as this is, they are nowhere near the bottom of the depravity well.

[sanatanadharma]

5. Almost as though "Deplorable" best applies as a name and label

The RW adopted and identified with the label and having thus internalized deplorability as a self-identity, they cannot not be deplorable.

When one's desires rise above one's deepest sense of self and morality, wisdom ceases to guide one's actions and the path to perdition has been chosen.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. They have been this way since "serve your wife divorce papers as she is in the hospital dying NEWT."

Rush, Newt, Bug Boy Delay and a cast of thousands ushered in the era, further fueled by the Bush/Cheney "unitary executive" cabal that got us here. Along with hundreds of Limbaugh copycats like Ingraham, Savage, Carlson, Jones, et al. Money to be made with hate and lie spewage. The well has been poisoned, perhaps irrevocably. Makes Nixon look like a choir boy. Neither he nor Reagan would make it out of a primary today. And then there is FOX "news.".....Three decades of mind fucking.

[James48]

8. It IS irredeemable.