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In reply to the discussion: George Will: Vote against Republicans [View all]JHB
(37,160 posts)edited because I just recapitulated my "Party of Ahab" rant. I've repeated that a couple of times over the past few days, and forgot I'd used it in the post you were responding to.
Conservatives have been driving the Republicans on this path for decades, and on this specific trajectory since Newt Gingrich exhorted Republicans to, at every opportunity, treat Democrats as "the enemy of normal Americans". They made him Speaker of the House for it, when he should have been treated like stuff you scrape off your shoe.
Will recently used an old Roman proverb to describe the 'recent "come-to-hay-soos" pontificators':
"the owl of Minerva flies at dusk", meaning if you see the owl, it's already too late: dusk is upon you.
But dusk isn't now. It as back when Newt was made Speaker. Not only were the owls flying, they were flying in formation. Big, WW2-bombing-mission style formations, with the air filled with wings and hoots.
And when it could have made a difference, George said nothing.