Today's Republican "party" is truly "all hat and no cattle"; "a mile wide and an inch deep".

[Atticus]

They deal almost exclusively in appearances. What they now term "creating counter-narratives" used to be called lying and they consider "facts" to be whatever spews out whenever they decide to pontificate about a subject.

In their world, racism either no longer exists or can be erased by simply denying it. Any policy or speech that does not feature the use of the "n-word" cannot possibly be racist according to their "reasoning".

They insist that their proposed laws be judged solely by their titles, not by what they actually do. Laws that allow Big Money's corporations to pump poison into our air and water are totally ok if named something like "the Clean Our Environment Act". Laws that drastically suppress the votes of "those people" and clearly favor the GOP are fine and dandy as long as they are termed "Protect Democracy" acts.

"The Man Behind The Curtain" no longer bothers to even pretend to be a wizard. He and his cultists now brazenly stand before us and, in effect, say "Yeah, there's no 'there'
there---so what? We've got ours and you're all losers!"

Is not this the definition of "obscenely surreal"?

[PatSeg]

1. Yes

They watched, probably in amazement, as Trump said, "Yeah, there's no 'there' there--so what" and didn't lose voters. Before Trump, they were already shameless bull-shitters, but he showed them there were no limits to how outrageous or dishonest they could be. Now it almost feels like a contest to see who can sink the lowest and still survive.

[Hortensis]

2. All hate, anyway. I think it's a mistake to see them as no cattle.

We're the cattle, and we have plenty of warning of the kind of prods they'll use on us if they get the power.

[mountain grammy]

3. Exactly!

[Politicub]

4. They also have a tremendous amount of political power.

I still think we have a long way to go to figure out how to stop them.

[CousinIT]

5. Highly recommend Steve Benen's IMPOSTERS that describes GOP as a post-policy party

They truly do not do policy anymore. EXCEPT policy that helps them attain and keep power. But that's all. Republicans work EXCLUSIVELY for themselves and their wealthy, white, male contingent. NO ONE else.

Facts, data, what the American people want, legislation and policy for the common good are of NO USE to them and they have been well beyond that for decades. They are about snake oil salesmanship, charlatanism, propaganda, and culture wars since they have no ideas other than this to offer American voters. And it's SO EASY for them to keep non - Republicans from voting now, they don't need to offer anything else.

[Sneederbunk]

6. No cattle, but ironically a lot of b.s.