Republican
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona is refusing to seek re-election,
Republican Senator Bob Corker is leaving the Senate, Senator John McCain's lethal diagnosis of brain cancer, means now that I
am afraid yet again. I am afraid there is nowhere for the moderate Republicans to go so
the Party will morph into the Trump fascist-like Party of hate.
It
would seem the middle class who support these Trumpian misfits will be
stepping on their own toes if they ultimately vote Trump because the
Party of Trump is not about them. Trump did not drain the swamp. Trump
is the swamp. His entire cabinet is filled with billionaires
and contains an ex-Goldman Sachs hierarchy. A Trump tax cut is for
Trump and the 2% wealthiest. There is, however, a Trump appeal, sadly
and incredulously, to the white working class even including white
working class women.
The
question for me becomes how can we stop this Nazi-like progression of
heil Trump with their Tiki torch carrying Nazi-like extremists within
the Republican base who are some of the most violent in our nation.
I
know those who share my political views and I believe even most true
conservative Republicans are loathe to the crudity and violence of
Trumpian politics. In the face of moderate Republican abdication from
the Senate what are the progressives and humane of this nation, who I
believe are the majority of this country, to do with the entrails of
the meanest, cruelest, most mendacious, Fascist-like remnants of the
Republican Party who have captured the halls of power with a madness
sidecar of Trumpian crude to grease the lift off?
It is obvious to say that Democrats
MUST win elections over Republican extremists that have filled the base of the Republican Party. Democrats must stop bickering
and UNITE our Party under a new banner filled with candidates of youth
as well as counting on older Democrats to fill the historical wisdom of
its chalice. We must show why we are truly in the majority and why in
2008 Obama, in truth, really did, according to the Washington Post of
that time, "fill
the Washington Mall with portions of the Mall standing room only, and
latecomers directed to an overflow area." This was the America for
which, over a lifetime, I had hoped.
Paraphrasing Republican conservative candidate for the presidency in 1964, Barry Goldwater: "... let me remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." That
phrase makes sense now for the progressives of our time. We must face
Fascist-like right wing totalitarian religious extremism, gay bashing,
health care destroying, Medicare and Medicaid obliterating, climate
destroying, Nazi-like Tiki Torch wielding white supremacist extremists
by countering them with strong, unyielding, unapologetic, humane,
progressive economic fairness and with justice for all minorities. We
must carry that mantra proudly and never give up.
