Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, June 5, 2023

But What Then?

 Jon Chait lays out in concise detail how the Republican Party has become authoritarian -  a deep fried Orbanism. The obvious question is what to do about it. How do you completely change the minds of people who wander the earth with ironclad certainty in falsehoods? 

The only thing that can truly save American democracy - aside from a series of compelling wins by Democrats - is a schism within the GOP. I wish I could see that happening, but the Liz Cheney's of the world are few and far between.

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