Every Day Further Cements the Feeling that I will Never Forgive the Republican Party for Any of This

Every day further cements the feeling that I will never forgive the Republican Party for any of this [1]. There's no particular reason to post this today; I could post it every day. It's a mantra I've had in my mind for months. The reasons should be self-evident to anyone paying attention and practically every day brings more reasons.

I doubt that the party will ever get what it deserves, but what it deserves is to spend decades in the political wilderness in punishment for its betrayal of the best of American values, perversion of justice, propagation of lies, revival of open racism, barely concealed corruption, and deliberate mismanagement of our government. It goes beyond Trump because the party has become his enabler and defender. Virtually none of them deserve political power again [2], and the party should be a pariah for a generation.

We are commanded to forgive all men. Sure. Of course, that's much easier when there are signs of sincere repentance. But I'm not aware of any commandment to forgive a political party. And when it comes to political parties, votes are ultimately all that matter.

Let me put it a different way. If you embezzle money from the Church, you can be forgiven and return to full fellowship. But you will never be involved in handling money again. The current party should face similar consequences, but it is up to the voters to make those consequences real and it will take multiple election cycles to do so. You can't vote them out of power in one cycle, and then be fickle and vote them back in the next. All that teaches them is that they need merely bide their time, make all kinds of bad-faith criticism and obstruction of the Democrats, and they will be restored to power. The punishment needs to stick.

It is well past time to accept the fact that the Republican Party isn't what it used to be. You need to feel it in your bones that this is what the Republican party is like now [3], and then vote like it.

I intend to do my small part.

Notes:
1. Certainly not the national party. Locally, maybe.
2. Not even most of the "moderates". They could switch parties today if they were sufficiently disgusted. Instead, they participate in upholding the current abuses and mismanagement of political power.
3. We now have two different College Republicans group chats filled with all manner of racism and bigotry. The future of the party is not looking better.

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