DEAD:...The Grand Old Party Has Died...MAGA Republicans Want Their America...Trump Killed A Political Party...Will It Happen In 2024?...

 

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...The Republican Party is no more. It has been butchered, disemboweled by the man seen in photo above. His is a well-known name. Members of his party likely know him as some sort of savior; the rest of the country sees him as a murderer, of sorts.

We are more than tempted to use a line from that Sir Walter Scott poem..."Breathes there a man with soul so dead". The words fit, is what we would say. Donald J. Trump has killed the Republican Party. It is now his own, property to be used and abused, as is his usual wont.

And, sadly, there is no funeral dirge to play about here.

But, boys, the Grand Olde Party is dead. What you see now from those Americans is a Hell's Angels gang of societal miscreants out to destroyer the country. There will be no more ifs, and or buts. The plan is being executed.

Multiple legal problems that include four criminal cases has not - and did not - stop Trump's march to the sea. Coast-to-coast terror, some of it arriving in calm ways and means (school vouchers), is at play, and no one seems to want to stand in the way. Republicans, we mean.

Well, those Republicans who are not quite onboard with Trump's MAGA are folks without a party. They are the kids in high school who bowed to the popular jocks and brainiacs. They have been spayed. Don't look for them at Trump rallies, but also do not look for them blocking his path.

Non-MAGA Republicans are taking the year off.

Do not bother them with press interviews or seek them out in the Letters-To-The-Editor section of your hometown newspaper. They are willfully standing down. They are not even lashing out at the liberal press to say, "Show me the evidence!"

They, too, have seen the evidence of hate, of unrest and of total manifest destruction. Republicans with any sort of power aren't even bothering with their non-MAGA brethren. Every team has its second-string scrubs, its practice squad. This game is not for the weak who won't speak.

Political parties have died in this country. That, too, is our history. Who remembers the Whigs, and, more-recently, the Reform Party of the early 1990s? It happens. People get scared and they act on their fears. Poisoning of the country's citizen blood is only the latest reason for today's Trump Republicans.

Our immigrant country's blood was "poisoned' a long, long time ago. But it's an excitable buzzword quickly latched on by those seeking any reason to raise Hell. Earlier, it had been fear of placing young White students with Blacks and Browns. That came and went, however, the courts ruling there was such a thing as equal citizenship for all. Anger was simply pocketed away for the next fight.

Ethnicity is Prime Time stuff with the MAGA Republicans.

That is a story that has seen the light in brief snippets buried in larger-issue news reports. But it's central to the rage & ruin playing across the country these days. The banning of books to limit readings on slavery, for example. A major presidential candidate (MAGA Republican Nikki Haley) believing you can ever distance yourself from that horrible time in America. The frontrunner for the 2024 nomination (Trump) demonizing immigration if it's not from Norway.

We could go on.

It's safe to say, however, that the United States is no longer united. It's Red States versus Blue States now. I'm with these guys; you're with them. Only, it is not a game. It is dead-serious stuff for the MAGA crowd, their allegiance openly going to Trump and not to the country.

They could not care less about unity. Not these days. MAGA Republicans fully believe God is on their side and that Trump is the fabled "Chosen One". 

Democrats and the rest of the population are to be damned. God is not with Democrats, say, no, scream, these Republicans. Damnations flow daily, against societal norms and against opposing politicians. America is on the rag.

Bang the drum slowly...one more time...

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