What is the old saying about not truly being able to help someone until they learn to help themselves?
If this keeps up, and at this point, there is little, if any, indication that wiser, cooler, and smarter heads will prevail, the Republican Party will not last as a viable political party that people will trust to govern.
If someone would have released a statement a few years ago like the Oregon GOP just did, I would have believed it was a fabrication. But, as they say, truth is stranger than fiction.
The best that can be said about this (and it's not good, to be sure) is that it's some kind of shared delusion.
All I can say at this point is that these guys better snap out of it soon, or they're going to find themselves irrelevant.
On Monday night, the Oregon Republican Party issued a formal condemnation of the 10 House Republicans who voted in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.
www.cnn.com
If you study history of the past fifty to sixty years, or, if you're just plain old, you will see, or have watched, as the GOP strategists spent those decades cultivating the very lunacy and madness your OP addresses.
It's doubtful the party's strategists planned for that lunacy and madness to reach the level it is today. But those many years and several generations later, the psychological effects of fearmongering and nurturing right-wing paranoia are tearing the Republican Party to shreds.
Six decades of constant manipulation cannot be reversed in days, weeks, or years. The bitter hatred developed in their voting base for everyone unlike themselves is a flaw that same manipulation makes invisible to its victims, in both themselves and others that hold the same beliefs.
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Conservative talk radio is responsible for a lot of what we're now going through. I know what I'm talking about because I listened to conservative talk radio for over 20 years, although not so much since Trump took office.
Conservative talk radio was ALWAYS setting fires. They were constantly engaged in what I would term argumentative dissatisfaction, and those arguments almost always morphed into a sense of emotional outrage. These "arguments" were often based on manufactured or even phony issues and were usually directed at the opposition party (the Democrats). But, eventually, it was directed at Republicans too. When their efforts at undermining Republicans eventually led to getting rid of a House Majority Leader (Eric Cantor) through the primary process in 2014, and they later essentially forced a Republican Speaker of the House (John Boehner) out of office a year later, the RW radicals could simply see and feel their power growing.
What was happening seems obvious now based on the events of the last five years, but it wasn't at all clear what was happening back then. I say that without any real modesty at all since I could sense and feel the Republican surge coming in 1994 under Newt Gingrich. But this was different. Donald Trump essentially picked up the emotional mantle that Sarah Palin had dropped, in part, because she was not up to the task, and he ran with it, and his demagoguery was on full display at his rallies. I think that most people thought he couldn't win. I know that's what the polls indicated. But I knew he could win, and he did. And look what he's put this country through in the last four years. Regardless if someone supports his policy agenda, it's virtually impossible to defend what Trump has done to the collective us (you, me, and everyone else). I don't have a problem saying that because I would never offer my support to a president I voted for if and when he spent his time ripping at the fabric of this nation as if it was little more than an amusement to him.
At this point, I would have to say that I'm not really a betting man, but I think the future is set in one sense. As far as the GOP is concerned, it's old establishment conservatives versus Trumpists. I hate to say it, but I don't think that establishment conservatives are up to the challenge, and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with right versus wrong or good versus bad. It has to do with which side is the most ruthless, and it's probably not a good idea to bet against the side that's willing to storm the Capitol Building where the other side is deliberating, When push comes to shove, I believe the simple truth is this: Mainstream conservatives are afraid of the Trumpers, and the Trumpers are not afraid of mainstream conservatives.
But as Trump is fond of saying, we'll see what happens.