NYT Editorial: "The Republican Party needs to be crushed & the earth salted behind it"

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43. Straight into the garbage with you, GOP.

I like this idea. Call it the "Carthage treatment."

Destroy it, and sow the ground with salt so nothing will grow. Worked for the Romans in ancient times. Carthage never rose again to threaten Rome's rule.

All this yapping about how we need a new "Republican party" or "conservative party or whatever-the-hell they want to call it - I don't want to hear ANY of it!

I don't want to hear anything about ANY revival or rebirth of that pack of jackals and idiots and racists and misogynists and all the other "great 6th-Century-BC minds of our time".

I'd be happy if there NEVER was another CONservative collective like them. Or a purportedly "new and improved" CONservative collective or a "gee, we really didn't mean it, we're NICE!" CONservative collective. OF ANY SORT.

I've heard all the arguments about - we need that other side/we need to hear the opposition/blah-blah-blah. Okay. Fine. YOU go throw the door open to welcome that "other side". YOU make room for "the opposition". Leave me the hell OUT OF IT!

I think we need 10-20 YEARS of solid liberal/Democratic domination so we can fix EVERYTHING that trump and his toadies fucked up. Government, the economy, race relations, international relations (what's left of them), education, the climate crisis (!!!!!!), immigration, all the regulatory agencies, the rule of law, and the very Constitution that even the red-staters claim is a sacred document, even though they don't act or behave or vote like they do.

I don't even want to see, much less hear or read from ANY republi-CON blathering about their so-called "better ideas." They're FUCKED. Fucked, that is, for everybody who doesn't rake in hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Anybody else in their view can just go pound sand.

I think THEY need to go pound sand. And do penance in the wilderness, for a factor of YEARS, until we've had enough time to clean up their mess and set everything back straight again. And maybe not even by then. To me, they've forfeited ANY right to govern or to lead. They need a wholesale reexamination of their utterly wrong, cruel, narrow-minded, and anti-social thinking, if they ever expect to be trusted with any sort of "leadership" position again.

Just my opinion.