As SCOTUS decision looms, the GOP is eating itself.
The neoconservative movement has spent the last several decades attempting to merge morality with legality. How many times have we heard neoconservatives defer to the imminence of the constitution and the authority of the state?
In the process of merger, the American Right brushed over the fact that law is simply a tool, a means to an end rather than an end in itself. Instead, the ideology of the right has maintained and solidified the delusion that the enacting of law is equivalent to the writing of religious scripture. The Bush administration fed this delusion for 8 long years. The American Right acted as if they'd be in power forever, so their delusions of moral legality festered and infected every aspect of their political rhetoric. It reached a point where the the core of their ideology became irrelevant to the actuality of their political power. Any personal philosophy, no matter how ludicrous, could be actualized through the untethered authority of the Bush regime.
Now that they've been largely divested of practical political power, they are forced to directly confront the error of their way. But their protests carry a hysterical irony. Of course, as right-wing political figures publicly promote civil disobedience against a pro gay marriage SCOTUS ruling, the movement chases its own tail. After all, how can a movement dedicated to subordination before the state maintain a consistent logical argument that we must now do just the opposite?
This is what happens when you build your ideology on nonsense. Not just any nonsense, but hateful nonsense. The mean-spiritedness of right-wing thought and action has forced them to protest against inevitable and largely popular social progress. This is the culmination of almost half a century of right-wing self-pigeonholing. This is the very definition of what it means to be socially and culturally antiquated.
Now the GOP is forced to make one of two decisions. Either they abandon what is left of their brittle morality and accept gay rights or double down on their nonsensical hatred. Both options are political suicide. They will either disenchant what remains of their increasingly irrelevant political base or further alienate the rest of America.
This is an impossible decision to make, so the GOP will attempt to subvert fate by enacting both decisions at once. The threat of political protest and civil disobedience is empty, and, as nationwide gay marriage is actualized, the American Right will solidify its impotence by disavowing its own identity in an attempt to appropriate a more progressive future.
The GOP is eating itself in an effort to maintain relevance. This is how political movements dies.
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