Talk about a false panacea. Don’t look now, but our self-serving, pseudo-centrist nonce party foists on our already elephant-stomped body politic the presumption that healing must target the midpoint between creditable, law-abiding, decent, putsch-averse donkeys, and despotic, seditious cultists of win-or-coup.
Yikes. Must we memory hole to the crack of doom a big picture that includes (along with much else) Mike Huckabee’s prescription for “bullets” not “ballots?” Plus, Roger Stone’s 2020 caterwaul for “f*** the voting, get right to the violence” (to the point, he says, of “bloodbath”)? And a list of further America-maiming aspirations that could stuff an encyclopedia?
Like it or not, report it or not, No Labels’ origin stems from a perceived opportunity to parade, in effect, as Trump Troop Lite. Since the Big Blonder Brigades’ sheer, distilled, un-American evils include promulgating reckless, savage, asinine smears of Dems in general and of President Biden in particular, voila! A chewy, toxin-drenched nougat center! Yum!!!
Here’s the thing. At our peril do we let democracy trumpers memory hole our history. In 1954, would NL have grandly split the difference between rule-of-law vindicator Joseph “HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY?” Welch and the GOP’s fact-fragging Trump presager, “Low Blow Joe” McCarthy? Talk about fraught fibbers. Since Trump spewed some 30,400 documented lies in one term, and Mr. Biden is on track to hit 10 or so, would an NL nominee aim to spout some 15,205 (and paint that tally “centrist,” and hence the greatest thing since Richard Nixon)?
In all, HAS “NO LABELS” NO DECENCY? Parse that plaint as you will, we’re at a point where it speaks to the heart of our vote-legitimized governance- and hence our country. Better late than never, let’s make bold to resolve NL as a subsidiary of Trump, Unlimited. Have a great weekend. And please. Don’t take “No Labels” for an answer... or for anything the slightest bit legit, let alone felicitous.