How Crazy Can the GOP Get?

Earlier this week I was listening to one of the AM shock jocks who had a lady caller telling him that she ‘knew for a fact’ that the whole Pandemic thing was a hoax. Why was it a hoax? Because it let Big Pharma get a lot of money from the government, it let all the hospitals make lots of money and most of all, it was a way for the government to keep everyone under control.

Now I don’t know if this woman was actually a listener to the show or was paid to make that call. But either way, it is clear to me that what we have right now is a national political party which promotes a narrative that floats between the bizarre and the ultra-stupid and back to the bizarre again.

How do you come up with a rational and believable response to an unemployment rate which is well below 4 percent? You don’t. You ignore the economy and instead talk about how schoolchildren are being corrupted by ‘woke’ ideology, as if anyone out there even knows what ‘woke’ means.

Or you fall back on the GOP’s tried and true appeal to racism, which Barry Goldwater tried to exploit in 1964 but Nixon then copyrighted for the GOP in 1968. And even though the so-called Chinese Communists are more committed to free enterprise than we are, you can always roll out some litany about how all those non-white immigrants are trying to sneak into the country to get welfare, food stamps, free this and free that.

I happen to believe that most voters, maybe more than 90 percent of the voters on both sides don’t listen to the rhetoric of…