Why Republicans are scared of everything and everyone right now

[Contrary1]

Well good for them...the party of terror, terror, terror, is now afraid of everything. What color should their current threat level be? I would suggest yellow, but it's already taken.



"In the wake of House Speaker John A. Boehner’s announced resignation from Congress, there’s been a lot of chatter about how the GOP House caucus has changed since the Ohio Republican was first elected. And as FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver and The Washington Post’s own Christopher Ingraham demonstrate quite clearly with charts, the data is pretty incontrovertible. As Silver notes, “The most conservative Republicans in the House 25 or 30 years ago would be among the most liberal members now.”

Indeed, the current GOP is the most conservative iteration of the party in the past century.

None of this should be a surprise to regular readers of Spoiler Alerts or The Post. But it’s worth noting that, in many ways, the GOP has moved further to the right at the same time that a lot of other forces are pushing the country and the world in the opposite direction. Which, if you’re a Republican, sounds pretty scary.

For Exhibit A, consider what The Post’s Janelle Ross uncovered from a recent NBC/WSJ poll:

A substantial share of the Republican Party is fundamentally uneasy about the ways in which the American population is changing..."

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/30/why-republicans-are-scared-of-everything-and-everyone-right-now/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. They should be afraid.

The GOP is fracturing: tea party vs. aging traditionalists. The very ground is shifting beneath them.


GOOD.

[pampango]

2. "Republicans have shifted way to the nativist right at the same time that much of the country — and

much of the conservative world — has gone in the opposite direction.

Will this change anything in American politics in the short run? No. The GOP will continue to control the House and Senate, and the GOP’s 2016 nominee will have a decent chance of being elected president 14 months from now. And globally, it should be noted that other nativist conservative parties are also on the rise.

The GOP looks increasingly out of step compared with other conservative parties in the rest of the world. As Jonathan Chait noted recently, on issues such as climate change, the Republican party does not resemble other conservative parties:

Of all the major conservative parties in the democratic world, the Republican Party stands alone in its denial of the legitimacy of climate science. Indeed, the Republican Party stands alone in its conviction that no national or international response to climate change is needed. To the extent that the party is divided on the issue, the gap separates candidates who openly dismiss climate science as a hoax, and those who, shying away from the political risks of blatant ignorance, instead couch their stance in the alleged impossibility of international action.

Republicans are now trying to tell other countries that the United States won’t really honor any commitments that the Obama administration makes on greenhouse gas emissions. McConnell is doing this in the hope that it will undercut foreign willingness to make kindred pledges. Which is strange, because a staple of GOP rhetoric on climate change for well over a decade has been that U.S. action is hopeless because the rest of the world won’t act. So it would appear that Republicans are now actively trying to gin up the global resistance that they’ve long said was insuperable. That’s kinda weird."

The contortions that republicans go through to justify their profit-maximizing 'climate change is a hoax' policy is amazing. They go from "the US should not act because the rest of the world won't" to convincing the rest of the world that they will roll back US commitments so why should they bother to take action on climate change.

[GOLGO 13]

3. My advice to the GOP & their hordes is to learn Spanish.

Everyone is going to need it. LULZ!