Tim Campbell for January 18, 2021

We can only hope.

Can’t come soon enough.

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

The party has its place. It just has to learn not to get caught up in wanna-be POTUS For Life actors. There is a pool of great talent out there who could lead a stable and prosperous nation without the self destructive policies the rest of the world has just witnessed

The founding fathers had the Brit system as a reference and tried to re-invent the wheel, sorry guys you f—-d it up!

Hitch hiking – but do they really know where they want to go or where the ride that picks them up will take them?

Today’s Republicans are not the conservatives of a few decades ago. Since then, in an attempt for supremacy, they have married themselves to one crackpot group after another, starting with the disenfranchised racists in the 60’s, the Reaganites of the 80’s, the looney Tea Party (hi there, Ted Cruz) of the 90’s, and now the organic-food “shamans” and full circle back to the disenfranchised racists carrying assault rifles.

Can it be fixed? Doubt it. The sane conservatives should start up a new party.

I hope so, but I doubt it. They do seem to be splitting into the RWNJ party, where the crazier the better – e.g., the “QAnon Rep” now sitting in the House with her gun – and the purely corporatist party. They’ve taken advantage of each other for years, but there seem to be some limits even to those who are wholly owned by Big Business.

Note that I do not include “conservatives.” This is a trivial percentage of the active politicians in the Republican Party, at best.

Traitors

It doesn’t have to be if they would do some very serious soul-searching. If they’re not willing to do that, then they need to prepare for the Democrats to have control for a very long time.

Sorry, but 74 million Trump voters are not going away. They will continue to to be fed lies because it makes too many people rich. Their leaders will exploit the undemocratic loop holes in our system to maintain a presence for at least another generation.

Our frenemy the Old GOP is dead, but in it’s place is a zombie version. And it’s hard to kill what is already dead.

Alas, they’re already weaseling to maintain support from Trump’s base.

Tim’s cartoons frequently leave me looking at an inkblot test.

“He can’t say anything [about the storming of the Capitol] because the platforms have removed him.”— Hogan Gidley, Trump’s reelection press secretary, forgetting there is a briefing room in the White House

Won’t happen. The Repugs have been moving towards fascism for years as evidenced by the numbers of them voting for sedition on Jan 06, 2021 and their coordinated moves to blatantly steal elections by removing ballot boxes from neighborhoods of color, gerrymandering the hell out of districts (some of which resemble Rorschach tests) and outright intimidation by local police. tRump was just the charismatic leader they needed to pull in the scumbag backing to try to pull off sedition. Who knew there were so many fascist RWNJ’s in our country? But…we see them now for who they are. Makes canceling them out easier.

It will be hard, because they are so fixated on bad actors. Nixon’s Southern Strategy still is a bedrock principle. Reagan launched his campaign in Philadelphia, MS, with these words: “I believe in States’ Rights….” And then there was Willie Horton. (No need to mention more recent Poster Boys (and Girls) for white supremacy.)

“Trickle-down economics” has been shown repeatedly to be a recipe for greater debt for the country, and greater economic inequality. Not that Republicans will recognize this.

And more globally, conservatives don’t want things to change; that’s why they’re not considered “progressives” (or “realists”). And things are going to change whether they want them to or not. And that makes them angry. I don’t see this dynamic going anywhere.

McConnell is not slam-dunk opposed to Trump’s impeachment/trial because he knows he can’t control the crazies. The Tea Party took out both Boehner and Ryan. He sees he’s next, unless the party can excise the crazies.

Either the crazies will take over, and we’ll essentially have a one-party system, or the Republicans will have to split from the crazies. It will be interesting to watch.

The State of Georgia’s State Song is “GEORGIA” by Ray Charles. This great cartoon makes me wonder what State will adopt Ray Charles’s song, “HIT THE ROAD JACK” and tell the racist G.O.P. to Never Come Back No More . . . .

Yep, that is an elephant caricature. Pretty well beat up too. Time to pay the piper.

I predict it will be harder to find a self-described “pro-Trumper” holding a national office than to find Nazis after the occupation of Berlin at the end of World War II. Trump who?

I would welcome a conservative party that could actually compete with the liberals without lying. That hasn’t happened in the entire time I have been politically aware, roughly 50 years. I don’t agree with a lot of liberal ideas- abortion tops the list, and would be interested in hearing the views of an HONEST conservative party. I have never had that option and once I understand that I am being lied to, even if the person lying seems to believe what he is saying—- actually even more so if he seems to actually believe it, because that’s nuts, so I have always voted Democratic. An honest option might be nice.