We don't really think anyone is going to take the nomination from Donald Trump, which is a sad thing to say about the Republican Party who back him. Even with DeSantis in the wings, who has old-guard Republicans blowing smoke in his ear, not even MAGA will back him. To be clear, it’s not because he’s too extreme, but because Trump told them not to. DeSantis is kind of losing on all fronts right now anyway. So who’s the next proposed divider-in-chief, courtesy of the Republican Party? The next person to rise on the right will have to come through Donald Trump and a MAGA crowning ceremony.

Tangentially related, we need a lot more infrastructure or laws that help protect us as a society. What MAGA has done is highlight the fact that decorum used to be enough to run this country. Once we we the people that actually majority of people get power back we need to do some serious seriously thinking about how things are going, and put whatever laws in place we need to in order to keep people like Trump on a short leash.

And that’s sad.

Something’s rotten in Tennessee.

Is it the ultra-conservative deeply-entrenched highly-gerrymandered state legislators? Well, yeah, actually. As it turns out, just after a Nashville shooting (yes, another mass shooting), three legislators protested along with many constituents. Then, the Republican supermajority has kicked two of them out of Congress, which means they’ll have to re-run for their seats.

So what’s going on? Well, the shooting happened in Nashville, which has always been a democratic island in the state. The supermajority have been targeting Nashville’s liberal leadership by redistricting, and Nashville has been sending people to the legislature for quite a long time who have been…inconvenient…for a culture of guns, guns, guns. What happens next? Probably the representatives will be reinstated (at this time, one of them has been), but they’re still up for special election. And they’ve been removed from committee.

If this looks like a power play, it is. The protest may have been loud (there were megaphones), but it was peaceful, and yet Republicans are comparing it to the January 6th Insurrection.

Equivocation.

Again.

Is anyone surprised this is from the Republicans?