Joe Scarborough: Newtonian physics will crush the GOP

[brooklynite]

Washington Post:

Alabama has come full circle. After waging a bloody battle over civil rights throughout the 1960s, George Wallace’s home became a target of contempt for the outside world. But with Democrat Doug Jones’s shocking Senate victory in the bright-red state this week, Neil Young’s words of warning seem more relevant to President Trump’s failed plan to remake the Republican Party in his own reactionary image.

GOP leaders have acquiesced to Trump’s dreadful designs for too long to escape harsh judgment at the polls. One year after gaining control of Washington, Republicans are being routed by Democrats in the generic ballot test: “Which party would you support in a congressional election?” Perhaps that is because few party members objected to Trump’s proposed Muslim ban, or his feigned ignorance of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, or his characterization of Mexican immigrants as rapists, or his discrimination against an Indiana-born judge because his parents were born in Mexico, or his attack on a Muslim Gold Star family, or his use of moral equivalence to embrace white supremacists in Charlottesville, or his promotion of British neo-Nazi videos. Republicans across the United States will now pay a heavy price for two years of moral indifference.

The Virginia governor’s race last month was decided, in large part, by women who stood patiently in the rain to vote against the candidate endorsed by Trump. This week’s Alabama result was secured by black voters who rushed to the polls in numbers equal to those of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 victory.

We are learning that the laws of physics apparently apply to politics in the Age of Trump. Newton’s third law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction explains much about the Democratic Party’s resurgence. Physics professors teach that force always comes in pairs, and true to form, the harder Trump and his Republican allies push back against gains made in recent years by women and minorities, the harder these same Americans push against Trump and his Republican enablers. The political reaction likely to result from this Newtonian cycle is a complete collapse of the Grand Old Party.

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans guilty of moral indifference?

Hell no. They are guilty of moral rot.

[L. Coyote]

2. Yep, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, except in politics overreation is possible.

[DetlefK]

3. Republican voters are a non-Newtonian liquid:

The harder you squeeze the liquid, the harder it gets.
The more you confront them with facts, the more extremist they get.