Let Us Hope that We Shall See the Unraveling of the Republican Party. Here’s a bit of history of what can happen to a political party through an unconscionable and impulsive act: Here is a political cartoon showing South Carolina Rep. Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat, nearly fatally caning Republican abolitionist, Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner,…

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One of the strangest movies ever made in Hollywood was Gabriel Over The White House (1933), which basically called for some sort of Fascism in America. (Among its financial backers was William Randolph Hearst, which will tell you something if you know anything about his history. Think Citizen Kane.)   But, the premise of the…

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As everyone knows, now, former speaker of the House, John Boehner has come out and said that the Republican Party is dead and buried. It is now, he tells us, the Trump Party. You can watch him say so in the embedded player below. He’s doubtlessly right. But, it is hard to pity Mr. Boehner.…

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