A Republican admits that the 'toxic fantasies' of his party have led us to an unprecedented crisis
Written by Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly March 23, 2020
One of the critiques that is often leveled at the NeverTrumpers is that, even as they reject the current president’s words and deeds, they fail to assume any responsibility for how we got here. That isn’t true of Stuart Stevens, who once served as Mitt Romney’s campaign strategist. He has written a courageous piece titled, “Republicans like me built this moment. Then we looked the other way.”
The failures of the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis can be traced directly to some of the toxic fantasies now dear to the Republican Party. Here are a few: Government is bad. Establishment experts are overrated or just plain wrong. Science is suspect. And we can go it alone, the world be damned.
As the country deals with the fallout of this administration’s failure to respond to a pandemic, it is important to remember that it didn’t all start with Donald Trump.
During his 1981 inaugural address, the patron saint of the Republican Party—Ronald Reagan—famously said that “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” He was articulating a foundational principle of the modern-day GOP, which sees government as the enemy of free-market capitalism.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/a-republican-admits-that-the-toxic-fantasies-of-his-party-have-led-us-to-an-unprecedented-crisis/
And in the header picture I see one Joker and that fucking smile of his.............along with the other two assholes, with there fucking smiles......................................
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I am positively nauseous. 
have got that covered with the Rapture.
But in reverse, of course. 
