Maybe I am just isolated and confused. Could it really be that the Republican leadership of today is as cognitively addled as they appear? Or, could it be that they are on a runaway train of doctrine that they have no choice now but to ride out?
Just like investment bankers are really in the bonus business, GOP officials are in the power business. But who really wants to be in control of an obese medusa of a civilization like ours? What GOP flat earthers want to do is to restructure our culture to a form suitable for their own consumption. We are in the midst of a period of reconstruction funded by silent project managers.
The signs are everywhere. The attack from all directions on women by way of crippling reproductive freedom. The demonization of public schools and the people who run them. The attack on public employee unions. The transfer of public administration of services in the commons to private control. The constitutionally sanctioned influence of corporate payola in our political process.
The people who already control the majority of wealth in the USA now want to see to it that the remainder of the public domain is tolled out to the public by owners accountable only to the "marketplace". If the US experiences another revolution, the continued privatization of public resources and further concentration of wealth may be near the root of it. It may not play out quietly like the boiling of a frog.