This is beyond weird
The GOP has probably experienced one of their most unusual reversals of fortune in just a matter of weeks – even if it’s solely from a perspective of optics. If they were a political party with a modicum of decency that actually cared even remotely as much about their country as they like to claim they do, I might even feel a little bit sorry for them. Of course, they don’t – something they openly demonstrate on a regular basis.
Their issues go way beyond Donald Trump, the party’s de facto leader, looking like a tired old candidate that has absolutely nothing new to say – and actively attacking more popular governors in his whole party. The bigger problem is that Democrats have succinctly managed to epitomize the entire party as “weird.” The Republican Party, is of course, weird – and has shown few serious attempts to allay the fears of voters in the middle.
When Vice President Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday morning, a name reportedly in contention for weeks, it would seem the thing for a party not accused of being weird would try a legitimate line of attack about Walz’s policies that might concern anyone who sees themselves as a centrist. Instead, a bunch of conservatives on Twitter tried to get #TamponTim trending – a reference to Gov. Walz including them in his school budget proposal.
Trumpers aren’t just weird – they’re raging at anything they don’t understand – and as I’ve said before in Palmer Report, the base is so rife with misogyny that they couldn’t pass this up, even if the insult would backfire and just make them look even more weird and ridiculous. We’ve got a winning message, and a winning ticket in Harris-Walz. Let’s get them both elected on Nov 5 and give them a Democratic House and Senate to govern with.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making