11-28-2022, 08:37 AM
In essence, the GOP redefines itself away from Gingrich's "Contract for America" which in practice helped only the Rich, the Tea Party which solved nothing and prevented rational solutions to real problems, and Trump demagoguery. This was all to be the "new face of the GOP", and it was older than the old one. Democrats seem to already be coopting the virtues of the old GOP under their noses while doubling down on inclusion of everything but the criminal element and those who completely reject reason.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.