Elefanten i rummet

av Martin Gelin

Bra krönika av Kathleen Parker:

”As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.
Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.
I’m bathing in holy water as I type.

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh.

So it has been for the Grand Old Party since the 1980s or so, as it has become increasingly beholden to an element that used to be relegated to wooden crates on street corners.”

Ouch.
Som sagt: Parker, Brooks, Frum och Douthat är republikanernas framtid. Sedan får vi se hur många decennier det tar innan det här accepteras av republikanerna själva – eller, för den delen, svenska republikaner, med sin krampaktiga lojalitet till Palin-fundamentalismen.

In related news: demokraterna närmar sig 60.