Restoring Some Level of Honor and Decency to the Republican Party

Here’s a former GOP U.S. representative who says that reforming his party can’t be done, and that it’s a waste of time even thinking about it.

I have to admit that this actually appears to be the case.  Supporting Trump’s Big Lie, calling for more guns, banning books and abortion, promoting fossil fuels, destroying public education–all these acts of authoritarianism are driving the Republican party further from the even-tempered democracy that the vast majority of Americans love.

Moreover, it’s an issue of big vs. small government.  If you say you want government out of your life, that’s fine, but you’re now saying you want government to regulate women’s reproductive lives and command our teachers to follow certain school curricula?

Having said all this, the current GOP platform is so nonsensical and self-contradictory, as well as grossly unpopular to Americans that live outside the South, that one has to think that change is in the offing.

The prospect of a general election will cause the Republican National Committee to start asking itself how well a fascist platform is going to play with educated people in the coastal states.