In the 1961 movie The Day the Earth Caught Fire, the US and the Soviet Union simultaneously test nuclear bombs at the poles, causing our planet to tilt 11 degrees and start hurtling into the sun.
This past weekend, in real life, two state Republican parties 1,400 miles apart also began to spiral into flaming death. Or something very like it.
After weeks of turmoil, the Florida GOP finally defenestrated its rape-and-sex-scandal-plagued chairman, "Christian" Ziegler, during a closed-door meeting in Tallahassee. The last time they tried to give him the heave-ho back in December, Ziegler allegedly demanded $2 million in return for quitting. (Cheeky lad.) This time, Ziegler did not attend the confab, and he appears to have gotten bupkis.
Meanwhile, in Lansing, Michigan, state party pooh-bahs voted to fire their crazypants chairwoman, Kristina Karomo. Like Ziegler, Karomo was a no-show at the meeting, which she calls illegal, and she refuses to step down — so the saga, already a year long, continues. What's disturbing about the Karomo situation is not just that she's an election denier, but that Michigan Republicans would be probably be perfectly okay with her if she had not been such a disaster at fundraising.
So it's "World Doomed" for both state parties right now. Although Florida Republicans may have a better chance to right their listing ship with "Christian" out of the way, they and the Michigan GOP have been too busy infighting to lay the groundwork they need for Election 2024. They have sown the wind — will they reap the whirlwind? We cats PURR.
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