If the GOP is to rise from the ashes, it has to burn first

[Zorro]

Opinion by Eugene Robinson

Before a sane, responsible political party can rise like a phoenix from the ashes of today's dangerously unhinged GOP, there must be ashes to rise from. The nation is going to have to destroy the Republican Party to save it.

Parties reform and rebuild themselves after suffering massive, scorched-earth defeats. Since Republicans decided to follow Donald Trump and Fox News into the dystopian hellscape of white supremacy, paranoid conspiracy theory and know-nothing rejection of science, they have lost control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. Yet it has become obvious that those defeats are not nearly enough.

You might think the violent and deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol — an unprecedented attack on our democracy, incited by Trump's election-fraud Big Lie — would snap the GOP back into reality. Unbelievably, though, you would be wrong.

If anything, the party is heading deeper into the wilderness. Look at how the two most powerful Republicans left in Washington behaved last week. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to bend the knee to Trump. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) voted to question whether Trump's coming impeachment trial is even constitutional.

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[RainCaster]

1. DFT & MTG are doing their best to bring down the GOP

Add BoBo to that last, along with Leningrad Lindsey.

[lastlib]

2. To Mr. Robinson and any other thinking individual, the QGOP is headed into the wilderness....

To the QGOP, they're headed for the Promised Land. They WANT to destroy the edifice of our democracy. It is their raison d'etre. Once that is achieved, the real rulers of their party can take over. Call me a tinfoil-hatter, but I honestly believe that is the goal of the QGOP backers--the billionaires, the corporatists, the oligarchs, if you will, want MORE wealth, more power, and democracy is an impediment to that. So they tear it down.