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The GOP will stop at nothing to win
The only thing newsworthy is that the rest of us are finally keen on their plans
“The Republican Party is no longer one that I recognize,” my dad lamented to me the other day. While I’ve never understood how a white boy who grew up on welfare in Massachusetts became a Republican, my dad has been a registered member of the GOP my entire life, along with my mom.
They made their disapproval known when I came of age and registered as a Democrat saying things like, “how did we screw up raising you so that these are the people you support?” At 18, I didn’t know how to answer that question other than that I was pro-choice and believed that we needed to proactively address the hole in the ozone layer, and the Democratic Party cared about those two things, while the Republicans did not. Over two decades later, the answer to their question has never been more clear: the Republican Party simply does not care about anything but holding on to the kind of power that will keep their best donors raking in the dough.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
It should be no surprise that none of this is new to the 2020, or even 2016 election cycle. As I have ravenously consumed political documentaries for the past four years, this…
