As a lifelong Republican voter, I find the term MAGA Republican repulsive. There is little doubt that my party has become more right-wing and more radical in how it expresses issues and more reactive to the smallest insults, but the pejorative MAGA Republican moniker is not acceptable.
I am distressed by the way the party sees its political opponents as “the enemies of America” and define every political issue as a life-or-death issue.
I worry about our new found affection for paramilitaries, predatory podcasters and QAnon. We have invited racists, holocaust denying neo-Nazis and white supremacists into the tent on a stand back, stand by basis.
The thoughts of Trump are too often treated by the party like the thoughts of Mao; semi-divine and inerrant. He has taught us how to hate those that hate him and love those that love him. His enemies are our enemies. That list seems to grow daily.
Honesty and integrity in word and deed is now a thing of the past because it never makes the news cycle. Standing up for America only if we win is not the party I once knew. We have changed important terminology such as replacing “dictator” with authoritarian. Now we are clamoring for a new “authoritarian” leader when the old authoritarian leader is still ready to make a comeback with $100 million of our money in his pocket.
It is my hope that our Republican leaders as well as Republican critics can stop the MAGA Republican party rhetoric and simply refer to the Republican party as the New Republican Party. Perhaps by changing the name to the New Republican Party it might bring attention to the new ideas and policies in today’s Republican party unburdened by any connection to the Old Republican party that has passed into history.
I am distressed by the way the party sees its political opponents as “the enemies of America” and define every political issue as a life-or-death issue.
I worry about our new found affection for paramilitaries, predatory podcasters and QAnon. We have invited racists, holocaust denying neo-Nazis and white supremacists into the tent on a stand back, stand by basis.
The thoughts of Trump are too often treated by the party like the thoughts of Mao; semi-divine and inerrant. He has taught us how to hate those that hate him and love those that love him. His enemies are our enemies. That list seems to grow daily.
Honesty and integrity in word and deed is now a thing of the past because it never makes the news cycle. Standing up for America only if we win is not the party I once knew. We have changed important terminology such as replacing “dictator” with authoritarian. Now we are clamoring for a new “authoritarian” leader when the old authoritarian leader is still ready to make a comeback with $100 million of our money in his pocket.
It is my hope that our Republican leaders as well as Republican critics can stop the MAGA Republican party rhetoric and simply refer to the Republican party as the New Republican Party. Perhaps by changing the name to the New Republican Party it might bring attention to the new ideas and policies in today’s Republican party unburdened by any connection to the Old Republican party that has passed into history.
