After the 2022 midterm elections, I thought that the accumulation of electoral defeats and the proliferation of lawsuits against Donald Trump would finally encourage Republicans to take a step back.
I have repeatedly emphasized that the United States needs both major political parties to offer viable options and become each other’s bulwark against radical elements.
With the American system offering little room for independents or third parties, it is imperative that the GOP become something other than what former Republican governor Bobby Jindal called “the stupid party” back in 2013, the party of stupidity.
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A hellish spiral
Long before the Republican Party was corrupted by Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and other George Santos, some rare birds were invited onto the national stage.
The most interested observers among you have certainly not forgotten the escapades of Michele Bachmann or the dizzying rise of Sarah Palin.
I also believed that we had reached the bottom of the barrel with the latter and that this caricature, waving its ignorance like a shield, would be enough to bring Republicans closer to the Reagan era than to Lipovetsky’s era of emptiness. (1983)
Reading conservative writer Matt K. Lewis’s 2016 essay “Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections” convinced me that I hadn’t imagined the gaffe. Reagan’s party has sunk rather than rolled up its sleeves.
Essay by conservative writer Matt K. Lewis (2016) entitled Too Dumb to fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections
A danger to the nation
If I can understand the imperatives of electoral strategy, just as I understand that we can sacrifice ideas for the sake of the victory hotel, the disturbing spectacle that the Republicans in the House of Representatives are offering us these days poses a danger to the United States.
Even if the shadow of the closure of government services (shutdown) is once again looming, it is no longer the usual partisan political disputes that are causing the negotiations to fail, but rather the internal divisions of the Republicans. Every time he speaks out, Speaker McCarthy risks his seat and undermines his credibility.
Preferring to focus on pipe dreams and an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, the Republican Party is more divided than ever. If it can still garner votes by playing the culture war card or waving the woke scarecrow, the GOP no longer has a solution.
Influenced by the far right, which shamelessly contemplates an authoritarian turn, it does not present a coherent vision to address the problems of the 21st century.
Donald Trump has mentioned several times that he feels comfortable when there is chaos. If the formula was profitable for him on a personal level, it is not recommended for the leadership of a power. This is even more true when this power is already being abused.
