Is the GOP Crazy or Just Dumb?

So, yesterday I received and read Robert Draper’s book, Weapons of Mass Delusion, When the Republican Party Lost its Mind. Draper has been writing about D.C. politics for years, and I thought this book would be an overview on how the Republican Party continues to support Trump and, in the process, has substituted the acronym MAGA for the acronym GOP.

Actually, what the book is really about is how someone as crazy and delusional as Marjorie Taylor Greene could come into Congress less than two years ago and not only become one of the party’s most visible members, but even get mentioned as a Vice-Presidential candidate for 2024.

Either the GOP is now so mangled by January 6th and the continued never-say-die ministrations of Donald Trump, or Greene has the best PR staff that any member of Congress has ever had, or the Republican Party has completely shifted far-right, or maybe a combination of all three.

After all, Greene comes from a patch in Georgia which will always send a Republican to Congress, so it’s not as if putting up with her bullshit gives the GOP leadership a shot at the majority that otherwise they might not have.

On the other hand, the Republican Party has never been all that comfortable with women playing an equal political role with men. So, for example, the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees gender equality, has sat without being ratified thanks to opposition from Southern states controlled by the GOP.