Click here for an article by Richard North Patterson at The Bulwark, entitled "The GOP Delenda Est." Subtitle: "The Republican party isn’t interested in governing. It scorns science and denies facts. It can’t be reformed. It can’t be worked with. It must be stopped."
As Patterson explains,
Cato the Elder’s prescription for Rome’s greatest enemy was stringent. He concluded every speech with this singular imperative: Carthago delenda est—Carthage must be destroyed. Until, at last, it was.
He continues:
Now American democracy has a more lethal antagonist. Regardless of ideology, our imperative must be the political destruction of today’s Republican party. Until then, all the rest—trying to reform the GOP; founding a third party; or imagining a sweet spot in the political center—are dangerous distractions.
The GOP’s pathologies run too deep to temporize. Their most glaring manifestation is but a symptom: the party’s enthrallment to a dangerous, unstable, bigoted, and nihilistic narcissist possessed by autocratic cravings, a contempt for law, and a poisonous disdain for all other human beings—epitomized by his murderous neglect of a deadly pandemic which needlessly killed over half a million Americans and, thereafter, by his incitement of, and pleasure in, a deadly attack on our Capitol by extremists inflamed by his lies and determined keep him in power.
It's an excellent article, a great takedown of the abysmal state of the Republican party.
0 comments:
Post a Comment