The GOP's New Heroes Are All Killers, Kooks, and Creeps

[JoeOtterbein]

Daily Beast

The party has shed the last of its old skin, and what’s emerged is hideous to behold.

Wajahat Ali

Updated May. 14, 2021 5:20AM ET / Published May. 13, 2021 4:53AM ET

There is no civil war in the Republican Party—the Confederates won long ago.

Instead, we are witnessing the end of a long molting process as the GOP slithers into its final form: a counter-majoritarian, fascist entity.

Republicans are shedding their masks and hoods, spitting out their dog whistles and outright embracing the Big Lie and the violent insurrectionists, conspiracy theorists, and racists who make up the party’s base and, increasingly, its representatives in Congress.

The foolish hope that Donald Trump was merely an outlier, a freakish aberration whose eventual exit would allow “adults” like Mitch McConnell to go back to their belligerent obstructionism, court packing, and shameless cravenness to corporate America and the 1 percent— you know, “business as usual,” as if any of that was normal or healthy — is gone.

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That has to be one of the most accurate descriptions of the GOP ever.

[JohnSJ]

1. yes, and it would be nice if the Democrats called them out on this

[dalton99a]

2. And they are all brazen congenital LIARS.

[Chainfire]

3. They represent their rank and file

who are rank and vile.