The recent Republican National Convention revealed that the Republican Party as we’ve known it for so many years is totally kaput, set ablaze in 2016 and finally burned to the ground in 2024. It no longer exists. In its ashes its followers have become a cult of personality for Donald Trump, some fanatically, even religiously so. Many claim he’s been anointed by god. Which god, I do not know, since there are so many versions of this invisible, non-existent being in the USA, especially of the Christian variety. Take your pick.
I present to everyone the Trumplican Party.
Trumplicans claim to be iconoclastic “populists,” tearing down the old order to “save America from the tyranny of loonie left,” you know, their straw men of abortion-loving, trans-hugging, open-border-allowing, anti-capitalist, BLM/CRT, communist/socialist, America-hating enemies who also happen to be their fellow citizens who have the audacity to disagree with their insane and myopic fanaticism, the lowly vermin who must be defeated and eradicated. My, my, we’ve heard that before, right?
What they sounded like during their convention is that they are, in fact, fanatics for authoritarian rule based on a fairly creepy white theocratic ideology, where cruelty, hatred, and spite seem to be the greatest motivating factors. If you’re not one of them, the USA is not for you. Compromise is for losers, plurality is for traitors.
Every thoughtful, enlightened, and rational American should read this brilliant New Yorker piece on the Project 2025 insanity, how it came into being, who is behind it, how it was funded, and what this insane manifesto created by right-wing zealots and Christian fanatics wishes to unload upon our country the day Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025. It’s the closest thing to fascism a political ideology has ever expressed in the USA, at least one that has an actual chance of being implemented.
Trump is as pliable as a jellyfish, a masterful con man, so he’s playing along because his immense ego loves the god-like, king-like adulation of these whacked-out dingbats and religious fanatics. He’s never given a shit about policies or governing. He barely grasps with any depth most intellectual disciplines and is basically an overgrown child. He just wants to be king.
So let’s dispense with calling this the Republican Party any more. It’s officially the Trumplican Party. It’s vicious, ruthless, stupid, and destructive to its very core. His fanatical followers can now use the assassination attempt on Trump as justification for whatever political violence they unleash from now on, even if the kid who shot at Trump wasn’t particularly radicalized for either side as has been revealed. No bother: To them every liberal in America wished this to happen, so they’re all guilty of pulling that trigger. Trump’s assassination attempt in Butler, PA is a combination of Kristallnacht and Fort Sumter for the Trumplican Party.
Welcome to the new political era in America. There is no turning back now. We’re truly divided into irreversible factions and it’s not going to end well.