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Souled Out 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr., adds yet another article to the pile of paper (and electrons) on what the GOP must do to recover from the late Presidential debacle.

Frankly, I don’t think they are going to do anything other than more of the same. They have embraced a strategy of hate and fear for more than two decades: hate and fear of black and brown folks, lesbian and gay folks, non-male folks, poor folks, foreign folks, non-Fundamentalist folks.

When you embrace hate and fear for personal and political gain, hate and fear embrace you right back.

The current Republican Party has no soul left to sell. It is souled out.

I’ll cite one sentence in Pitts’s column; follow the link for the rest:

All that said, the biggest question here is not whether the GOP can transform itself, but whether it can even try. At this point, the Republicans are less a traditional political party than what disenchanted former GOP staffer Mike Lofgren has called an “apocalyptic cult.”

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