There Is No Republican Party Anymore!

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By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart

As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future.

Headlines are one thing and getting the top job, for many, is the only thing that matters in politics.

It is not.

Good government comes not from being the head of state and able to dictate what is supposed to be going on but flooding your government with good people who have the same or similar vision but also the ability to carry through policy and make good decisions.

In short, all areas of government matter.

It is quite normal for governments in the United Kingdom to flounder because the government minister for trivial and damaging manages to make a mistake that has unintended consequences. We have a scandal followed by finger pointing and ending with a resignation because the damage that has been done to the government is detracting from the good works…blah, blah, blah… You know the type of spin.

Opposition politicians are good at packing committees that are then the death traps to be sprung on government minister’s careers. They lay in wait until the time comes to make their name and they announce themselves with a well-timed question or mischievous revelation that is as partisan as a Yugoslavian rebel in World War Two.

Perhaps the most astonishing use of committees in politics goes back to one Senator Joe McCarthy and his House of UnAmerican Activities Committee. If there ever was an abuse of power coupled with the extraordinary effect of a man on the fringe making political capital out of fear and worry, this was it. The USA was gripped, the rest of the world shook its head in wonder and Arthur Miller us a crucible of a play all about it.

This is why we have to wonder about having an education committee with Marjorie Taylor Greene upon it.

It is quite clear that the Republican Party have an issue. Since the Tea Party announced itself, there have been people, emboldened against the liberal norms, raising their heads and spouting the most absurd views and issues to great effect. It may have culminated in Trump winning the Presidency, but it has its roots way beyond that. The Republican Party has encouraged it by way of acceptance. There has never been a challenge of which I am aware to any of them but a grudging realization that the people who believe conspiracy theories are a sizable chunk of the American population and it is important to have them represented in a broad political democratic coalition which has enough numbers to win elections and govern.

Such naivete is dangerous.

Greene is dangerous.

There is much debate over the public education system in all countries but the 1776 movement that is teaching “proper” historical “facts” to the American youth of today, so they continue the American fallacy of tomorrow has exceedingly dangerous implications for us all.

It is a subtle way of encouraging agreement with the tropes of racist and extreme views of Greene. She peddles nonsense about school shootings, chasing one of the survivors, openly, publicly and with pride over a “false flag” accusation that would be laughable if it were not so insulting.

It is clear that the Republican Party are going to struggle.

They have supporters in parts of the US who have sympathy for Greene’s views. They have people who believe worse. They have a large part of their party who believe that Trump is the Messiah. Without their votes, many believe that they shall never get back into the White House again. Maybe it is time for Mitch McConnell and others to find their big boy pants and admit what we all know; the people who believe this nonsense are deluded at best, dangerous at worst and the Republican Party are well rid of them.
To do so would make them a party, once again, of vision, a party of morals, a party of the future. Sticking people like Greene on an education committee just means they want to continue to embrace a racist, non LGBTQI+, conspiracy laden past.

A view from the new Kailyard or, how you look over there, from over here…

(kailyard n. a genre of sentimental Scottish literature turned into effective invective comment from one Donald worth reading…)

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