POLITICS

Wow, the Bushes and Cheneys Have Become the “Reasonable Right”

This does not bode well for the GOP nor for America

Oh, now we like Dubya? And the Cheneys? How quickly we forget the past. The media has held both families up this week as respectable old-guard traditionalists — masked and responsible — celebrating their outspoken defenses of democracy against the modern GOP crazies: Trump, Boebert, Cruz, Taylor Green, and the rest. I am not the first one to say it, by any means, but I may be the first one to say it on your screen today, my friends. I call bullshit. This is dangerous. These people are just an inch north of crazy themselves. They’re also responsible for getting us here.

Yes, I understand that the left has gone further left in the last ten years, and so the right has gone further right — so far right that they have attacked their own Capitol. It is not that simple, neither is it really chicken-or-egg, but it is, in fact, the new lay of the land. Even Biden, now president, has shifted further left than anyone expected. His speech last week to a joint session of Congress (don’t call it the State of the Union) has the Fox crowd (my father included) apoplectic. Sanders and AOC, of course, sit even further left. And while none of us on the left actually think anything Biden said was so radical…