The GOP is against everything Democrats cherish, and the Teaterrorists are their spawn. They may call them their bad kids but they simply showthe public what the family was really about, as is frequently the case in some families.
The GOP old guard whines as if they're not behaving, but they are the less patrician model, without the toga and fancy language. That is my best assessment of the old GOP vs. the new GOP or Teaterrorists.
My worst assessment is that the old guard has gotten so greedy and arrogant they groomed the Teaterrorists to act as their shock troops, brownshirts, etc. to intimidate Americans who opposed them - who can forget what the Teaterrrorists did over the ACA under the umbrellla of the GOp. On another level, they play good cop bad cop to appear reasonable. But they want the same things.
The TeaParty, etc. didn't exist during the Clinton year, but their cultural roots go back to the Birchers, Robertson and Reed. What they did when the got majority was what they were dying to do since the days of FDR, Truman and Ike.
When people claim that old guys were moderate, I think they are buying what they have selling since Nixon. It's hard not to do so, it's been shoved in our faces for years. But it is an idle hope that one can reason with extortionists and killers to save a few lives.
They know us and our values. We are more the party of letting the guilty go to save those who are innocent, and we know what democratic process is. We know if we don't go through the process, the government is destroyed. The GOP wants that anyway, so they will push the limits no matter how insane.
They GOP call it a weakness and they are the source of the weak and spineless Democrat that is really their meme. They have also convinced a lot of people that the strong man, authoritarian leadership that Democrats won't fall for, is a fault, but really, compromise is democratic with a 'little d.'
They disrespect us the same as did the Third Reich. They only indulge in eaceful negotiation until they can make war. They only acted reasonable when they were faced with solid Democratic majorities of any stripe.
Nixon and Reagan had to deal with the Democratic majority who were, going to toss Nixon out on his ass. But he resigned and the Constitution allowed Ford to pardon him. There was nothing to be done legally, the country had to move on. But it wasn't good enough for them, so they made war by stealth. Then the Democrats were going to bring down Reagan with Iran Contra, but by then they'd got so much of media under their control it was impossible. .
We have to remember that the GOP hadn't held majority since the New Deal. After Gingrich got in they have held the cards and then, they controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency, we saw what they did with the power majority granted them in the Bush era.
They invented the TP brand as a product line when the voters got sick of them. I see nothing different about their basic philosophy, just that they are much more obvious with what the heart (?) of the GOP is.
Sorry, there's a lot of redundacy there and I'm too tired to edit. Have a good evening.
JMHO.
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