March 1, 2023
The toxic wreck in East Palestine, OH is a perfect metaphor for today’s Republican Party, which has gone off the rails. The Trump administration deregulated commercial train traffic. It is arguable whether its actions were directly responsible for this accident, but it certainly was not working to make train travel safer.
The conductor of the Republican train is Kevin McCarthy. He has no idea where the train is going because the party has no agenda other than to defeat Biden and troll the Libs. As someone once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road (or rail) will take there.” He is being assisted by his firemen Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz, who are happily stoking the fires of the culture wars. Unfortunately, there are no brakemen left in the Republican Party to slow down this out of control train, which is transporting its toxic ideology around the country. Ron DiSantis may be offering himself up as a new conductor for the GOP train, but he has no interest in changing the cargo. He may be able to keep the trains running on time, but that is about it. Trump is vying to be the Republican Conductor-in-Chief once again. What could go wrong there?
The Spin Doctor 