The rise of Donald Trump in the Republican Party and the havoc he's wreaked have been mostly fun to watch. But it's also been disturbing. Trump appeals to people's base, uneducated instincts, and sadly, there are a lot of haters in the world. But at the same time, we were hoping Americans won't vote for a Republican next year for that very reason: Surely most of our fellow citizens are decent folks who are turned off by all the nastiness and the venom.
And then we saw Rafael Cruz, Jr. and the Fat Tub from New Jersey slamming Jimmy Carter — even after Carter's graceful announcement of his cancer diagnosis. Politically, it seemed ridiculous. Nobody under 35 today was alive when Carter was President, so they have no memory of what the two clowns are talking about. (And we'd like to see Cruz and the Tub craft a Middle East peace agreement that's lasted for decades. Try that, suckers.)
Voters aren't going to like that kind of vitriol, are they? Going after a now-universally-revered 90-year-old with melanoma? But Jimmy can handle it; we're not worried about him. What does concern us is all this "anchor-baby" hate, and the unfathomable discussion of ending birthright citizenship. We can't believe the 2016 clown car has gotten that far over the right-wing cliff, and that they're pulling Rancid Pieface and the rest of the hapless RNC with them.
Here's some food for thought: The humans who claim to be our owners — for nobody really owns a cat — are an American family founded by two Scottish immigrants who lived in the United States for years without becoming citizens. (They eventually moved to Canada.) If birthright citizenship is revoked the way Republicans want, the immigrants' two sons — members of the Greatest Generation who were born in the US and served in World War II and Korea — would have to leave. Including all of their descendants. After all, Donald Trump believes in "keeping families together," doesn't he?
There are millions of Americans with histories like this. So let's start that conversation. Do Trump and the GOP, screaming about ending birthright citizenship, want to deport the children of all immigrants, even white Northern Europeans? Somehow, we doubt that they do. They save their hate for people of color, and we cats HISS.
(IMAGE: Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Take a lesson, GOP.)
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Your literary allusions are breathtaking. We cats could only come up with Harold Hill, who is far too benign and likable to be compared to the immature bully Trump. We wonder how far anger-stoking can get one. After all, the teabags were aflame in the summer of 2009, but we still got Obamacare.
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