“America was great even with slavery:" Roy Moore (R-AL) for U. S. Senate

Family Values, Fundamentalist Zealot Kinda of Fellow for Senate

(Endorsed by President Trump and Most GOPers)

Two Thumbs Up: Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Now Trump's

(Nixon had Lee Atwater – Trump has Roy Moore)

Absolutely outstanding article (by Charles Blow at the NY Times here), and an article loaded with “not hard to disagree with facts” – it is as they say “a keeper (Note: Only with a few slight moving around of key points he makes to fit the blog standards but overall a super fine analysis):

Some key points he writes about that I strongly agree with in total:

If Alabama voters on Tuesday elect Roy Moore to the Senate, the Donald Trump-diseased party once known as the Republicans may as well call themselves Roypublicans since there will be no way to shake the stench of this homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, racist apologist and accused pedophile.

He is them, and they are him. Any pretense of tolerance and egalitarianism, already damaged by a Republican history of words and deeds, will be completely obliterated. There will be no way to simply say that Moore is the abominable outgrowth of Alabama voters’ anger.

Moore has been fully endorsed by the Republican “president” of the United States, the leader of his party, and is now fully supported by the Republican National Committee. 

Last week, RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told CNN: “The president has said we want to keep this seat Republican. The RNC is the political arm of the White House, and we want to support the president’s agenda.”

Ergo: Republicans now have surrendered the moral high ground they thought they held, and have dived face-first into the sewer.

The Trump agenda is the Republican agenda: hostility to women and minorities, white supremacy and white nationalism, xenophobia, protectionist trade policies, tax policies that punish the poor and working class and people living in blue states.

Moore when asked by one of the only African-Americans in attendance at a September campaign event in Florence, AL what Trump means when he says, “Make America Great Again,” he said in part: “I think it was great at the time when families were united, even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. People were strong in the family.”

I call this his WTF moment in history for sure vis-à-vis the truth – the reality of slavery and GOP revision of that ugly part of American history:

1.  Slavery was no respecter of the family. Mothers were frequently, and without warning, sold away from children and vice versa.

2.  When marriage among slaves was allowed it only existed at the so-called masters’ discretion, as partners could easily be sold away from each other.

3. Sexual harassment, sexual assault and even rape were routine acts of horror visited upon the bodies of enslaved women and girls, often by the so-called masters who were married.”

Racism you see requires a revisionist view of history, with stains removed and facts twisted. It strips away ancestral horror so that the legend of the lineage can be told as hagiography. And, if you can’t deal with the truth or allegations, or facts, then just lie about them (pretty much the GOP today – cannot be denied).

For example like the GOP’s revisionist view of that ugly era:  

1.  That slavery was unfortunate, but tolerable.

2.  That slavery t was brutal, but people were happy.

3.  That enslavers were wrong, but their families were strong.

And, so, here we are today with many Republicans in AL, and now including Trump, all endorsing Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate seat vacancy. Now they are also willing to sacrifice Moore’s prior teenage accusers, why do you suppose?

Oh, yeah, because they believe in Moore’s fundamentalist zealotry (which he has harbored for years long before all this current stuff came out).

Overall summary: This is now the defining feature of today’s modern Republicans:

“Contorted moral rationalization.”

After any of them read this I expect a huge back blast followed by a slew of their “Whataboutism” distractions – a subject I earlier posted about here.

Mark my words – it will be forthcoming – bet on it – a sure winning bet.

Thanks for stopping by.