Dinesh D’Souza, mocking student reaction to the decision of the Florida legislature to not discuss gun control:
Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs https://t.co/Vg3mXYvb4c
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 20, 2018
Once upon a time, believe it or not, D’Souza was considered a serious intellectual and an exemplar for the future of a diverse, young, forward-looking Republican Party. William F. Buckley, Jr., favorably reviewed his first book, An Illiberal Education.
At just about the same time that D’Souza was mocking teenagers still recovering from the shock of seeing their classmates murdered, an aide to a Florida legislator was accusing the students of being activists-for-hire.
An aide to state Rep. Shawn Harrison, using state email, sent me this: "Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen." https://t.co/UFD1ZXGNjr
— Alex Leary (@learyreports) February 20, 2018
I doubt that the GOP brand will survive this Dark Side presidency; Trump’s election has green-lighted everything sick and squalid in the Loony Right.
Seriously: It is time for a new party. People like Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham (on a good day) … they need to frankly repudiate the cesspool that the Republican Party has become and organize a new party. I have policy differences with each of them, but none of them is overtly crazy, none of them appears to be animated by malice, none of them is resolutely ignorant, none of them is incandescently corrupt, all of them (excepting the exigencies that inhere in a public life) exhibit a good faith intent to do well for the country. And the way, now, to do well for the country is bury the GOP and the sick, antisocial behavior set loose by the election of Trump.