'How did the Republican Party get so unhinged?' asks columnist Robert C. Koehler. 'Easy as it is to blame Donald Trump, I blame something far more deeply entrenched.'
Call it armed patriotism. We wage war on anything and everything: America is the shining light of global belligerence and animosity, with our trillion dollar annual, and ever-expanding, military budget.
"To heighten the routine deception, we've been drilled into calling the nation's military budget a 'defense' budget." From the point of view of the American tradition of racism, the new GOP seems to have claimed the best of both worlds. White nationalism hasn't simply rearmed, it has reclaimed a mainstream respectability, giving Republican candidates the opportunity to pull Hollywood energy into their campaign ads. Eric Greitens' RINO-hunting ad, for instance, had over a million views within three hours of being posted on Twitter.
But then there's Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia, a proponent of gun sanity, whose 17-year-old son was murdered in 2012. She talks about learning the news of your child's death,"when the agony will not let you breathe. . . . You cry out to God in your grief. . . .
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