You Mean…?

"Obviously Never Trumpers want to beat Trump (again), but the larger (and perhaps much more difficult) project is to stand against Trumpism and its continuing assault...The alternative is to normalize political deviancy." https://t.co/H7zsAvUS8v

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 17, 2022

"Political deviancy”? You mean the stuff Nixon did (and I don’t mean just Watergate)? That Gingrich did? Gingrich became Speaker only after running Jim Wright out of office in a very trumped (!) up scandal. The cult of “St. Ronnie” (which has only now been replaced with the cult of King Donald)? Lee Atwater”? “Turd Blossom” Rove? Medicare cheat Sen. Rick Scott? “One-term Obama” Mitch McConnell, whose signal and solitary political accomplishment was leading the U.S.Senate to be sure to accomplish nothing? Dick “Torture in the defense of liberty is no vice” Cheney? Whitewater, the great GOP seven-year national snipe hunt?

I could go on like this for awhile. The only problem now is Kristol & Co. have lost control of the deviants. Kind of like the “Celestial” in The Eternals who created Deviants to further the progress of human life and when instead they endangered it, created the Eternals to fight the Deviants. In the end, the Celestial lost control of both groups. Not a very effective system.

Turns out the “mommy state” liberals were bent on helping people (like the Eternals) and the lassez-faire conservatives were bent on using people for their own end (like the Celestial. Who, not surprisingly, is the real villain of the story.)

I think the problem with Trump is that the GOP have been laying the groundwork for him since at least Goldwater’s defeat. Be careful what you ask for; you might get it.