More Republicans are starting to realize that the existence of their party-- as well as their country-- is in jeopardy because of the dangerous psychotic narcissist they put in the White House. Some-- take Scaramucci-- realize Biden is virtually a Republican in many of his views and they can back him instead, while staying in the GOP. Teabagger and former far right congressman, Joe Walsh, on the other hand, has decided to primary Trump, more a publicly stunt than of any expectation of ever living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.I don't doubt Walsh wishes he hadn't voted for Trump in 2016, picking who he thought was the lesser evil. "We have someone in the White House," he said in his campaign kickoff video (above), "who we all know is unfit, someone who lies virtually every time he opens his mouth. And someone who places his own interests above the nation's interests at every single turn. We cannot afford four more years of Donald Trump. No way!" The video is an appeal to Republicans to be brave and stand up, even when that vast, vast majority of Republicans are thrilled with Trump and absolutely worship him. Trump is not an aberration; he is the personification of what Republicans have turned their party into."I'm a conservative," said Walsh. "Im running because Donald Trump is not who we are. In fact he's the worst of who we are." Depends how you define "we." He certainly is who Republicans are and who this era's conservatives are. He's not who most Americans are, if that's the direction Walsh was going with his appeal.There's a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out which deals with who Americans think they are. 70% of respondents said they feel angry because our political system seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in Washington, rather than it working to help everyday people get ahead.There were some questions about race relations worth looking at. First was how race relations stand right now:
• WHITES• very good- 6%• fairly good- 34%• fairly bad- 35%• very bad- 21%• AFRICAN AMERICANS
• very good- 5%• fairly good- 14%• fairly bad- 34%• very bad- 47%• HISPANICS
• very good- 8%• fairly good- 28%• fairly bad- 25%• very bad- 36%
Here's another: "Since Donald Trump has been president, do you believe that race relations in the country have gotten better, gotten worse or stayed about the same? Start by comparing how whites, blacks and Latinos respond to "stayed about the same" question in relation to Trump's occupation of the White House.
• WHITES• gotten better- 11%• gotten worse- 47%• stayed out the same- 41%• ARICAN AMERICANS
• gotten better- 5%• gotten worse- 86%• stayed out the same- 9%• HISPANICS
• gotten better- 7%• gotten worse- 74%• stayed out the same- 19%
Meanwhile the small number of Republican centrists still left in Congress are going through an identity crisis-- and worse-- that is helping persuade some of them-- and anyone even vaguely part of mainstream conservatism, like Sean Duffy (R-WI) this morning, to just give up and quit. As the GOP gets more and more radical and shrinks and shrivels, soon no one will be left but people like Steve King and Jean Cramer. Good? No, not at all. The Democratic Party leaders see that as an opportunity for more corruption and for embracing more conservatism. How long after that will it take for progressives to recognize the Democratic Party for what it (already) is?
