We Couldn't Have Said It Better Than This (So Here It Is)

Just a quickie for the New Year: Stuart Stevens, Republican, sums up the state of his party in The Washington Post.

"Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party, the personal responsibility just proves you have failed to blame the other guy party, the deficit doesn’t matter party, the Russia is our ally party, and the I’m-right-and-you-are-human-scum party...

"Trump didn’t hijack the GOP and bend it to his will. He did something far easier: He looked at the party, saw its fault lines and then offered himself as a pure distillation of accumulated white grievance and anger.

"He bet that Republican voters didn’t really care about free trade or mutual security, or about the environment or Europe, much less deficits. He rebranded kindness and compassion as 'PC' and elevated division and bigotry as the admirable goals of just being politically incorrect. Trump didn’t make Americans more racist; he just normalized the resentments that were simmering in many households. In short, he let a lot of long-suppressed demons out of the box."

Well, team, it's 2020 now, and time to box those demons back up. Let's dedicate ourselves to tossing these GOP haters and miscreants out in November — up and down the ballot in every state. We cats PURR.

(IMAGE: Luca D'Urbino, The Economist)