What Do Republicans Stand For? No One Knows, Least of All Republicans

It was only a few years ago that the Republican party in the United States was based, at least loosely,  around the principles of the traditional conservatives, things like small government, personal responsibility, deregulation, and whites-only country clubs. Of course, it had its slightly hidden agenda of less noble things like warmongering, unchecked gun rights, KKK-style racism, and the rest, but they weren’t overt parts of the package.

Now, conservatism has been replaced by sheer insanity.

A week or so ago, Nikki Haley made the bold step of suggesting that the GOP’s following Trump was a bad idea, with her speech that featured, “We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”

Mitch McConnell followed suit, when he said that the ex-president was “practically and morally responsible” for his supporters’ deadly attack on the Capitol.

No more than two weeks later Nikki Haley, now apparently a 2024 presidential hopeful, made the remarks at left.  She seems to have realized that, to her horror, Trump continues to speak for the GOP, and the anti-Trump position she took might ruin her bid.

How someone who wishes to be taken seriously can contradict herself so blatantly eludes me, but that’s the insanity I remarked on above.