Republicans working hard to be right wing creepy

Echo opinion letter published in The Columbian newspaper.

Ever since Ronald Reagan declared that “government is the problem,” the Republican Party has been hard at work to make it so. The attempted insurrectionist coup on January 6, 2021, and the fiasco in the House of Representatives trying to elect an extremist right wing speaker are two glaring illustrations about the Republicans' determination to undermine and, eventually, destroy democracy.

The conspiracy theories and accusations that Democrats are “the enemy” and not so subtle urging to their right wing fringiest members to take action inserts a whole new level of creepy to their cause. They embrace white supremacists, nationalists and anarchists as tools to wield against the government and blatantly idolize dictators the likes of Hitler, Putin, Erdogan and Pinochet. It appears the goal is to become exactly that.

The incoming legislators — if they can ever agree on a leader — have only one agenda: to investigate the Biden family, the January 6 committee members and anyone else they can scapegoat while doing nothing to improve the lives of Americans. 

Plans to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, public schools and all social safety nets are the next extremist targets.

The Republican Party may not be dead yet, but it certainly seems to be breathing its last breaths.

By Sandra Edmonson, Vancouver