Making racists and religious fanatics feel good about themselves doesn’t pay the bills.
The comment arises in connection with yet another state legislative seat flip — the 37th — from Republican to Democrat, this time in deep-Red Kentucky.
I don’t believe anybody could have foreseen the exact shape of Trump and the GOP’s ongoing self-immolation, but the inevitability of it was in plain sight long before the election. The well-documented business corruption; the overt hostility toward the First Amendment protections of speech, press, and religion; the serial and grotesque Big Lies … the people who voted for Trump cannot plead ignorance. They got what they voted for — and now they’re getting what they deserve.