These clowns are just a stand-in for all of the GOP. We have to dislodge the GOP from every state house, every local office and of course as many members from Congress (House and Senate) as possible.
The title and quote below come from a 7 June 2023 commentary by Rich Logis titled; America's mainstream media still wants to save the GOP — but that's impossible. It expresses a notion that many of us on this site have held for many years and in some of our cases for decades (going back to the GOP’s last cult leader Ronnie Reagan).
Nowhere in all this adult punditry is an audacious, candid, intrepid recommendation: Put the Republican Party out of its misery. Kill it electorally. Finish it off. I mean not to bully these media companies; I subscribe to all of them (including Salon).
Why will no one come out and say that? There are a few reasons.
First, the press intellectualizes salvaging the GOP. Sure, there is a place for intellectual takes on the Republican Party, the conservative movement and our two-party system (which we've always had and always will). But a healthier two-party system will only arise after the GOP is mercy-killed. There are myriad opinions among progressives, liberals, moderates, independents, center-left and even center-right Americans as to what should be done with the GOP. It's nearly impossible to get 10 to concur, much less 100-plus million. This endless "what to do?" cycle probably partly explains why centrist and left-of-center media is so concerned with the "who will save the GOP?" question.
But whether the GOP can actually be saved is a question the center-left press mostly avoids, likely because prominent media outlets largely consumed by Democrat-leaning readers are internally obsessed, in their boardrooms and editorial rooms, with proving that they're objective and free of "liberal bias."
Second, the centrist and left-center press analyzes the GOP voter base through an outside-looking-in lens. Its perspective is abstract and faux-scientific. Those reporters and editors have not lived a right-wing, politically traumatizing, mythological, fantastical, hysterical and paranoid existence. Members of the adult press have never consumed the nectar of the Republican Party's false prophets, from Ronald Reagan to Trump; they have merely observed others imbibing it. Viewing Republican primary voters from the outside is like looking through a filthy, smeared window; no matter how smart you are, you can't clearly see what's on the other side.
To put in perspective on why the media is so afraid to call out the GOP on any level is to understand that for decades, going back to Nixon’s resignation the GOP started working the refs (the media). Back then you only had three national television networks, CBS (Cronkite) NBC (Chet Huntley and David Brinkley) and ABC (Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith). Nightline and Ted Koppel didn’t come about until 1980.
CBS News probably had the most iconic anchors with Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather. Walter retired and Dan was taken down by the GOP (with an assist from Dan) because he went after W. But even before Dan was taken out, the national networks were cowed. Just ask the Clintons about how they were covered in the 90s.
If David French, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg and the editors, reporters and columnists at the Times and the Post spent a single evening with those I associated with for 7 years, methinks their "save the GOP" yearning would die a death that Lady Macbeth could hardly stand to look at. Furthermore, if the press spent more time speaking to those who are truly remorseful for supporting Trump, DeSantis and the GOP (such as myself — wink wink), other Americans would, unequivocally, better comprehend the irreversible malignancy that has enveloped the GOP.
I do my best to avoid traumatizing language and rhetoric, but my empirical and experiential assessment of the GOP is that the malignancy now pervades throughout the entire body of the party. Consider this in medical terms: When that happens in the human body, there is no saving it — there is only preparing it for its departure from this world.
I promise you that virtually no Republican primary voters anywhere in the country are reading or writing editorials that wonder about who will save their party. For the most part, the people I formerly broke bread with want the GOP to die, because in their view it has become a nest of RINOs, Democrats Lite and globalists.
So who, exactly, is the center-left press speaking to and attempting to persuade? Is it apolitical, general-election Republicans, who pay attention a month before the election every four years? Respectfully, most of them have never heard of the Atlantic, and wouldn't read it on a dare.
The cancer that overcame the GOP started with Richard Nixon and his criminality and victimhood stemming from his failure to become president in 1960. And then the GOP absorbed all the racist former Southern Democrats who fled the Democratic Party after LBJ signed into law the Civil Rights Act and other legislation they disagreed with.
Princeton professor of history Kevin M. Kruse has covered this part of the GOP’s history in several forms of media. You can even find it on X (formerly known as Twitter). Also relevant to today is Kevin’s work on the white flight from Atlanta (and thereby most of Fulton County) which Kevin wrote about in his Phd. dissertation, and later in a book called White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.
Locked into the cancer is a deadly strain of racism, misogyny and other various forms of bigotry. It’s these strains of cancer and the constant criminality of fixing the books that the media fails to point out. They (the media) feel this constant need to both-siderism every issue. The difference is, that, (for the most part) when the Democrats have a criminal in their midst, they let justice prevail. While the GOP defend and often raise up their criminals. And if you look in the U. S, Senate you’ll find criminals who ran for office after their criminal acts.
Right now, in Fulton County, Georgia, the DA Fanni Willis is seeking to bring to justice 19 criminals from the GOP. What has been the reaction from the GOP? Outrage. Representative Jim Jordan is trying again (see DA Alvin Bragg) to interfere with a local DA in the execution of their duties. If I were Jim Jordan I wouldn’t be going anywhere near the events in Georgia due to the RICO laws in Georgia because from where I’m sitting, Jim Jordan and quite a few other members of Congress have exposure. FAFO Jim.
2010
In 2010 the national Democratic Party let their guard down. It was a census year in addition to an election year. Whoever won control of the state legislatures would be drawing up the congressional and state house districts. The GOP was ready while the Democratic Party was still celebrating their victory of electing Barack Obama.
I’ve seen this kind of behavior on a basketball court where a team makes a thunderous dunk via an alley oop and everybody’s celebrating like crazy, meanwhile the other team casually puts in a lay-up at an open basket on the other end because no one’s back to defend the basket. These basketball teams usually learn their lesson and focus, but politicians don’t seem to catch on because they get caught up in the media’s description of how great the opposing team’s play was.
The Cruelty is the Point
Legislation enacted by the GOP is often harmful to the constituents they represent, but that harm is celebrated by their base. And it’s their base, where some of worse cancers reside. Too many of the GOP’s base and politicians take pleasure in the harm they cause. Because the cruelty is the point.
The only way to get rid of the cancer and cruelty is to eliminate it. Kill the cancer and the party electorally. We have to vote in such large numbers we overwhelm the attempts by the GOP to suppress the majority.
