Morons at the Gate: Part 2

Can American democracy survive the MAGA morons in our midst?

We’ve been here before, but the Visigoths were better organized than today’s Republicans. The sack of Rome, 410 A.D. Public domain.

In Part 1 of this post, I discussed the “what” of America’s moron problem. In this Part 2, I discuss the “why”. I argue that morons in America are made, not born. Looking at the record of the Republican Party since the launch of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” in 1972, I describe a Party that has spent decades…