Opinion: The GOP is a refuge for bigots and wackos https://t.co/3OloWRArNy
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 20, 2020
“… refuge for bigots and wackos” Ain’t that the truth.
Try to imagine Dwight Eisenhower (Interstate Highway System), Richard Nixon (China opening), Ronald Reagan (“Tear down this wall!”), George H.W. Bush (Americans With Disabilities Act), or George W. Bush (compassionate conservatism) sitting down to lunch with The Donald (“Hoax!”}. It couldn’t happen. I can recall dinner with a much-younger friend (also raised in a conservative household) 10-years ago, and wondering if the reason that I was uncomfortable with the direction I saw the party going was that I was getting older; maybe I just wasn’t keeping up? I decided that I hadn’t left the GOP, but that the GOP had left me — even as I wondered if vanity had the upper hand in that judgment.
No. I was right. The GOP I grew-up with ceased to exist a long time ago.