R.I.P. Republican Party

I have been busy writing another book with the goal for that conversation of fixing our sausage grinder.  The next two paragraphs can be found in the final draft of that work.

“I’ve written a couple of blog posts in recent months which allege that the policies of the Republican Party are racist.  I’m careful not to make any of these allegations about any particular Republican, but rather about the Republican Party as an institution.  This is Institutional or Systemic Racism in its most classic form.

“And I’m going to expand that accusation here and argue that the Republican Party is the party of prejudice more broadly.  In addition to policies which promote racial inequality they also support policies which yield to disparate outcomes for women, LGBT persons, immigrants, non-Christians (especially Muslims), etc..  At the moment their prejudice is directed toward immigrants.”

Over the course of the last few years, we have all been allowed to see many of these prejudices up close and personal as the Trump Administration progressed.  There were times when we witnessed these prejudices daily and many of us became deeply frustrated by the fact that we could do nothing beyond bearing witness to the atrocities before us.  Our frustration began to feel like a wound that was being continuously irritated and disturbed and not being allowed to heal.  And, each time the bandage was ripped off to expose our wound, the Republicans made sure that we knew what they were doing and didn’t care how we felt about it.

Now we are in the transition phase between the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration.  We are already seeing evidence of efforts to unify our people rather than continue to divide them.  We can’t know where this will all lead, but we don’t need to search very hard to recognize the diminishing support for the Republican Party.

We know that the membership in the Republican Party is in decline and has been for several years.  Some of the radical groups that have joined the party were probably welcomed into the fold, in part, to bolster the size of the party base.  The Trump Administration and the Republican Party support for his policies don’t appear to have done anything to decrease the exodus.  Arguably, the flow has been increased.  Only time will tell how this all turns out.  The Republican brand has been severely damaged and I am of the opinion that the Republican Party is shrinking from its past GOP glory.

R.I.P. Republican Party.

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