Long before Trump even announced his candidacy, I was saying that 2016 would be the year the Republicans went all in on the crazy. I was right. Had it not been Trump, it would have been Cruz, who is perhaps even crazier than the Donald. In previous years insane candidates might win Iowa, but the so called “moderates” like Romney and McCain prevailed in the end. I think I probably said this on this blog, but if not, I can get witnesses that I was constantly saying it at Drinking Liberally pretty much since 2012.
Here’s proof that my prediction has come to pass. The Republicans are busy writing their platform. Trump, of course, doesn’t really care what’s in the platform, as he’ll ignore it in any event (as will Hillary the Democratic platform), but the discussions do prove beyond doubt that this was always going to be the year of the crazy:
“Kris Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas, proposed an amendment to oppose the federal government including the prairie chicken and sage grouse as a part of its endangered animals list.
“We’re not the party of the anti-prairie chickens,” said one delegate, who opposed the amendment for getting too in the weeds on a local issue.
Yes. Yes, you are. Kobach’s anti-chicken plank passed. As did another that said animals “such as the grey wolf” should not be included in the Endangered Species Act.
Other critical issues covered? Do regular Oreos count as junk food, or are only chocolate-covered Oreos junk food? Does ginger ale count as soda? All of this discussed as part of the broader discussion on whether poor people should be forced to buy only food that Republicans approve. Though that discussion came after Republicans had already decided that the SNAP program was “unconstitutional.”
Oh, and of course Republicans found room in their platform to keep transgender people from using the bathroom.”
via Daily Kos
First, let us have a moment of silence for the prairie chicken and sage grouse, inoffensive creatures now doomed to extinction.
Of course, the platform committee, again at Kobach’s urging, also adopted a plank against statutory limits on magazine limits in assault weapons. Who knows, that guy it Orlando might have exercised his constitutional right to kill 100 people if his weapon only had more capacity. The criminal lobby has a lot of influence with the crazies.
This craziness is entirely independent of Trump, and will draw not a word of rebuke from the Jeff Flake’s of the world, who has announced that he’ll be skipping the convention because he has to mow his lawn. It is really a mystery why so many Republicans profess to be offended at Trump. Perhaps their problem is that previously they controlled, or thought they controlled, the crazies, and now the crazies are controlling them.
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