Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Road Kill Republicans

My committed belief is that Trumpism is not an aberration in relation to the development of modern Republicanism but its natural progression into a cult of governmental self-annihilation through incompetence, mismanagement and sabotage. If I'm right the result will be destruction and the white boys will then step back and say "oops" and try to find some creative way to blame it on the Democrats. 

This has been the pattern and Trump fits it exactly. He's less blue-blooded than Bush and more improper and profane but it's the same old story. They were each too privileged to fail though the Trumpster almost did anyway, misconstruing luck for ability. Trump, however, has cynics and ideologues at his elbows who make the Bush wackos look very nearly not insane. Bannon and Miller are truly scary.

Everything is into another realm of risk with them involved. The measure to have in mind is the road kill index, an informal indicator of how many people have had their lives ruined or ended as a result of Republican policies, directly or indirectly. Under Bush the figure is well up in the millions if you count the world-wide effects of the Phil and Wendy Gramm Whopping Economic Downturn, also known as the Great Recession. 

Republican incompetence and deregulatory fervor caused the Great Recession. Bannon and Miller are nearly admitting to wanting to remake the world and proposing its reinvention as a playground for rich white people and assorted privileged nut-cases. It would have to entail the exploitation and ruination of millions of nuisance lives and certainly many deaths, as happened under Bannon's heroes, notably Lenin. 

When, exactly, did this kind of thinking go mainstream? It should have been debated. I think Republicans would argue that the last election was such a debate but, no way. Ignorant Trump voters voted for road kill in the form of Hispanic immigrants, Muslims and anyone else Trump should choose to persecute. They didn't vote to be road kill and that is exactly where it is heading with every executive order and proposal. 

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