There’s no “taking the country back.” How presumptuous and arrogant! That’s not the way to talk about your platform, such as it is– with the spoken assumption being that the country’s condition is such that it needs only what you’re offering: a makeover in an extreme conservative image.
No. They’ve turned conservatism into a dangerous, fearsome word. They want to turn the clocks back, act like a regime instead of elected representatives. They may claim that the American people want what they’re selling, but that’s their first overstep. The American people is a catch-all term, an unwarranted assumption, because Republicans speak for not even half of the country’s voters. They don’t speak for me, and haven’t for a while.
And their Christian Nationalism fetish is maybe the most concerning piece of all. Their refusal to ignore the intent of separation of church and state will simply continue to give religious beliefs a black eye. They will bend and twist and unduly coerce the tenets of their faith into what will, eventually and once again, prove to be a huge mistake. They conveniently overlook the passage where Jesus says to shake the dust off their feet and move on. Jesus says nothing about beating the ”heathens” into submission until they’re all on board. But they may not know much about Jesus, since they seem to find more of what they’re looking for in the Old Testament.
Anyway, there’s a lack of humility and imagination in the Republican Party. They are the party of backwards, oppressed and dutifully fearful of the incompetent at the top of their ticket. They may claim to be the party of limited government and personal responsibility, defenders of the pursuit of happiness and the American Dream. But in reality, they appear to be the party of paranoid, angry control freaks who lack trust and spend a lot of time dreaming about yesterday.
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