It was, for me, the quintessential symbol of the new, MAGA-dominated Republican Party. In late January of 2024, nine Republican candidates were on stage for a Q&A forum in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District. When the forum moderator asked the candidates to raise their hand if they’d ever been arrested, six hands shot up, each accompanied by a proud grin, as if getting caught breaking a law is a badge of honor. Indeed, that must have been how they saw it, because after raising their hands, next, the arrestees chuckled and high-fived one another.
MAGA princess and shameless carpetbagger Lauren Boebert was one of those six proud offenders. Boebert has a fairly extensive rap sheet that includes several driving infractions and, of course, the well-documented affair at the Beetlejuice performance in Denver. When this duplicitous diva isn’t standing before TV cameras defending the Criminal-In-Chief and former POTUS, she loves to prance around on church stages—usually in skin-tight dresses aimed at accentuating her curves—pontificating about the country’s moral decline and the need for the church to rule the state.
The Changing of the Guard
But Boebert is just one example of the many impudent hypocrites who have replaced the GOP’s boring old guard. Conspicuously absent at the 2024 RNC convention in Milwaukee are former Republican luminaries such as Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Liz Cheney, none of whom would have had the honor of raising their hand in that Colorado forum.
Taking over from those dreary old law-abiding RINOs are these new, rousing Republican rebels:
Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the Jewish space-laser conspiracist who also warned us about the “gazpacho police.” Greene—like Boebert, whom she despises and called “a little bitch”—loves to preach about the desirability of Christian nationalism to cure the nation’s moral failings, not least of which is the breakdown of traditional marriage and families. The divorced Greene lives with her boyfriend; they are not married.
Representative Matt Gaetz, the Beavis lookalike who also advocates for Christian morality within the framework of a Christian-dominated nation has been credibly accused of sex with a minor. The charges were dropped despite first-hand testimony from two witnesses.
Representative Byron Donalds—a prominent Black “conservative” Republican who sees a return to the Jim Crow era as the solution to Black family dissolutions—impregnated his girlfriend, now his second wife, while still married to his first wife. And of course, economic, political, legal, social, and personal oppression of an entire racial group is obviously the best way to protect and preserve families. As the old saying goes, “Families that are subjugated together stay together.”
Senator J.D. Vance, who has recently gone full Trump-loving MAGA, not long ago couldn’t find enough bad things to say about the Sole Proprietor of the new Republican Party—including the possibility that Mr. Trump might be “America’s Hitler." But being a raging hypocrite is a small price to pay along the way to sticking it to Rep. Donalds and super suck-up ("I just love you [Mr. Trump]”) Tim Scott in the race to be chief bootlicker and VP candidate.
Donald Trump Jr., paragon of family virtues, lives with but is not married to his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle. And, although Junior denies it, his former girlfriend claims he regularly used illegal drugs—and videos of him slurring and struggling to keep his eyes open appear to confirm that allegation.
And then there’s ultimate RINO hunter, Donald John Trump, the third-time Republican nominee for President of the United States. This is the man white evangelicals—and America-obsessed MAGA rednecks who consider themselves “good Christians” simply because they’re Americans—now revere as their champion, even their messiah. This is the “chosen one” who will sit on the throne of America’s theocracy if Christian nationalists get their way. This is also the man who(se)…
o No longer spends any time with his third wife because she’s fed up with all the crazy publicity about a jury finding him guilty of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll and his payment of $130,000 to keep a porn star quiet about their one-night stand, and so many other things most wives would find reprehensible.
o Openly and brazenly mocked a disabled reporter—and elicited cheers from his audience for doing so.
o Name appeared at least seven times on the recently released Epstein logs. Trump and Epstein were close friends, and Trump called Epstein “a terrific guy” and said of the convicted felon, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
o When asked in a TV interview what he has in common with his daughter Ivanka replied, “Well, I was going to say sex.”
o Was accused of rape by a 13-year-old girl. The girl and her family withdrew the accusation out of fear of retribution.
o Called a Black-owned barbershop in Atlanta—where the aforementioned Byron Donalds was supposed to be leading a roundtable discussion on Black-owned businesses—to pontificate about how his arrest and mugshot made him popular with Black voters. (Because, of course, most Black people have been arrested.)
The list of Trump offenses and of hypocritical MAGA Trump lackeys could go on, but these facts illustrate the direction of the formerly Grand Old Party since Trump’s semi-hostile takeover of that once proud and honorable association.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been conned by an amoral wannabe dictator--or his minions.
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