Trumpism is like an albatross around the neck of the Republican Party

[kentuck]

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They probably dream about their chances at winning the House and Senate if they were not wearing the carcass around their neck?

With inflation, the price of gas, their virulent hatred for Joe Biden, the wrong-track polls, they probably dream about their huge majority in both the House and the Senate?

But, they can't seem to get rid of the albatross. Like in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, it is their punishment for killing the friendly bird.

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[Ocelot II]

1. He's more like a dog turd on the sole of their shoe,

and the shoe has deep treads that you can't get the poo out of, and it stinks and they track it all over the house.

[wyn borkins]

4. Of Him It's Been Said And Many Have Said

Yes, indeed, he's more like a dog turd on the sole of a shoe

A shoe having deep treads wherefrom you can't get the poo

Off the shoe as it tracks all over their stinky house of hullabaloo

[Ocelot II]

6. LOL!

[RockRaven]

2. But if the albatross is TFG, and the mariner is the GQP, then the ship is the USA and that

really sucks because the rest of the crew -- which would be all other Americans -- died, and the mariner survived...

[Ocelot II]

3. Slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea. Slimy orange things....

[usonian]

5. Gutlessness got them into the mess. Gutlessness keeps them stuck.

WE CAN COOK HIS GOOSE AND HIS FLOCK.
By staying on focus and GOTV.
https://democraticunderground.com/100216768463
(Everybody do just ONE of these!)

[Bucky]

7. Agree. Good analogy. Maybe expand it to Trumpism as the albatross

Trump will pass on someday. Trump himself might become partially broken by all the civil lawsuits he's undoubtedly gonna face in the next few years. We may find that this hearing process turns into a giant in-kind contribution to the Ron Desantis campaign.

But the poison that Trump has unleashed into the Republican Party, which was already a fairly toxic cesspool of resentments, cliches, prejudices, and Ponzi schemes, will linger in their party dynamics for another decade. Think about how the success of Nixon's dirty tricks campaign had a permanent impact on how Republicans began conducting their politics.

To some extent, this is inevitable. Our country is really too big and too diverse to sustain a genuine democracy. It's too easy to turn one group of Americans against another group of Americans. There's too much power and profit in peddling permanent resentments against culturally different compatriots to win control of gerrymandered districts.

We may get the occasional moral victory by unifying events or corrupt officials getting caught and punished to some extent. But the size and scope of our Republic pretty much dooms us to a future of imperfect and distorted democratic processes.

It's a shame; on balance this country has done a lot of good for humanity. Lincoln, MLK, rock & roll, mass media, trade unionism, scientific advancements, defeating fascism and communism... But a country can only become so big before not being able to have a clean reliable democracy

[slightlv]

9. THIS is what I'm concerned about, Bucky...

DeSantis, Cruz, Hawley, or one of the other Republican crazies who are smart enough about the Constitution to actually pull off the coup de tat that drump attempted. The other thing I'm concerned about is it's only a question of time. The moment we let our guard down, they'll snap it up, and our democracy will be gone. They've been long-hauling this since Nixon... heck, since Eisenhower, actually, at least. The elite want nothing from us except to work us until we die, then they can throw away the carcass and put someone else in our harness to work to death for them. That's why they want us uneducated. An uneducated public is a stupid public. Democracy demands literacy; demands critical thinking skills. That's why the R's and Trump's Magats and theology-impaired are so intellectually incurious and stupid. They simply do as they're told and mimic what they see. They've been conditioned. They might as well be Pavlov's dogs!

The only hope I see for a lasting peace is to truly divide up this country between the two groups. I agree the country truly is too large and diverse to sustain a genuine democracy. Let them have the authoritarian government they seem to crave. Let us have the democracy with the progressive freedom we deserve. And let us both install enough treaties and safeguards to stave off the others encroachments (cause you KNOW they're going to fail badly!) Let them build their physical wall, but let us build the "smart" wall. Ours will work, theirs won't be needed! YMMV, of course.

[kentuck]

10. If they are not "smart enough"...?

...then they are surely stupid enough. That is what concerns people the most, in my opinion.

[kentuck]

11. Will do!

[kacekwl]

8. They hung Orange Mussolini on their own necks.

They could remove him but they have no spine. They should have read the story of Dr. Frankenstein.

[canetoad]

12. And he's starting to rot

But they can't cut him loose.

[H2O Man]

13. Recommended.

True. It reminds me of the way one ties a dead chicken around the neck of the dog that killed it.

[kentuck]

14. That is an interesting custom...

There are some dogs that like to run chickens. To tie a chicken around the neck would tend to change the behavior of the dog, I suppose?

There has to be accountability.

[H2O Man]

15. The only ones

that it doesn't work with are huskies. But Trump & republicans are definitely not huskies.

Note: Decades ago, I got my wife a huskie. My grandfather said it would kill my chickens. I said I'd teach it not to. He said, "Like hell you will." He was right.

[kentuck]

16. More like those dirty ol' egg-sucking dogs...

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. Plus they have spent a generation attacking Roe v Wade

Now that they are getting that wish, they will have to deal with the backlash.