Juan Williams: "The GOP Is An Anti-American Party"

Unsurprisingly, I don't think this is very good.

   It's not that I like everything going on in the GOP, for I do not.

   However, it seems to me to pale in comparison to the utter madness that has gripped what often seems like the majority of the left end of the American political spectrum--not to mention the obliviousness to that madness exhibited by people like Williams.

   One could go on and on.

   Of less importance is the fact that e.g. Williams is willing to cite the following as evidence of the GOP's alleged anti-Americanness:

In the last year, every congressional Republican voted against a bill to help the country recover from the economic damage caused by COVID-19.
Republicans also overwhelmingly opposed an infrastructure bill favored by most Americans.
Now the GOP is opposed to President Biden’s Build Back Better bill to lower taxes for the middle class and help with child care.

Very ordinary policy disagreements are now, apparently, grounds for claiming that your opponents are out to destroy the nation. Well...if your opponents are Republicans, anyway... There are excellent reasons for opposing those policy proposals--Williams's partisan descriptions of them notwithstanding. One could just as easily--more easily, in fact--claim that it's the Democrats who are out to destroy the country by advocating them. In fact, I incline to think that the Pubs are right to oppose them all--though I could easily be wrong about all of them. Because they're complicated. 

   But the real point is: progressives now tend to see any opposition to even their (rather extreme...) policy proposals as evil. Not to mention their outright lunatic new philosophical views. 

   Trump and the 1/6 riots are real problems for the GOP. As I've said, I don't think Trump is fit for office on account of his very serious problems with demeanor and civility. Yet he is not the devil that the blue team delusionally believes him to be. And, more to the point: he was by far the less-bad option given the radicalization and derangement of the postmodern progressive left. The very fact that he was willing to speak the truth about that radicalization and derangement made him, to my mind, the better option by far. Better a boorish lout who speaks important truths and might just save the country than a delusional, hard-left cult. 

   But I've said this all before.

   I could be wrong.

   But I'm not.