Purging MAGA Guarantees No GOP President Before 2037
I & I Editorial Board
January 15, 2021
I&I Editorial
Well over a century ago, liberal John Stuart Mill famously dubbed Britain’s Tories the Stupid Party, an insult that has carried over to the Republican Party in America, which has proved itself over many decades to be well-deserving of the title.
From GOP leaders’ sleepy contentment with permanent minority status in Congress before Ronald Reagan’s arrival on the scene, to Republican presidents’ appointment of disastrous Supreme Court justices ranging from Roe v. Wade author Harry Blackmun (Richard Nixon) to John Paul Stevens (Gerald Ford) to David Souter (George H. W. Bush), this is a party that knows how to bring smiles to liberal Democrats’ faces.
But what is happening now may take the prize for stupidity, as a number of Republican leaders, many of whom know better, seek to use last week’s criminal invasion of the Capitol to have the party de-Trumpify itself and banish millions of voters who never voted Republican until Donald Trump came along, and after his four years in the White House would walk over hot coals for the 45th president.
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