![]() In this case, that "nativist sentiment" is spewing from an unsurprising source, the far-far-far-right-wing blogger (and self-professed "good friend" of RPV Chair John "Anti-Semitic 'Joke" Dude" Whitbeck) Jeanine Martin. Martin runs "The Bull Elephant," arguably the top pro-Republican blog in Virginia (at least according to former AG, 2013 GOP gubernatorial nominee, and all-around extremist nutjob Ken Cuccinelli), which spends a lot of time spreading the latest right-wing urban legend, railing against Planned Parenthood, the usual in other words. As for Shaun Kenney's Bearing Drift, I rarely link to it, but this time it's well worth it, for an epic, intra-Virginia-Republican civil war/super-"pie fight" over immigration - legal OR "illegal" - and racism that would be entertaining if it weren't so appalling. ![]() Sadly, those "Party of Lincoln" (or Eisenhower for that matter, or even Ford or Dole) days are loooong gone, with the takeover of the GOP by the racist "Dixiecrats," who thankfully (good riddance, don't let the door hit you on the way out and all that...) left the Democratic Party back in the 1960s and 1970s, hopefully never to return. At this point, though, what's frightening is that the GOP is infested with bigotry, extremism and lunacy of all types, from homophobia to Islamophobia to xenophobia to anti-Semitism (e.g., RPV Chair John Whitbeck) to endemic racism towards African Americans to...it goes on and on, including to Asians like the Hmong people. The question is, will the Republican Party ever condemn/disown the Donald Trumps - and the millions of people who think like he does - or will it continue to be a modern-day mashup of the John Birch Society, Know Nothings, Dixiecrats (George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms...), etc? And will the Virginia GOP condemn comments like Jeanine Martin's, like Steve "Child's Host" Martin's, like Buddy Fowler's, like Eugene Delgaudio's, like Bob Marshall's, like Dick Black's, like Bill DeSteph...it really never ends. |