Democrat Nightmare

Rich Terrell

"Rich Terrell is a retired high school teacher who taught many courses, but mainly math and economics. Upon retirement he took up creating cartoons – most of them political, some of them whimsical.  His wife, Lucy Gill, is a retired international management consultant and trainer, and author of “How to Work with Just about Anyone, a 3-Step Solution for Getting Difficult People to Change.”  They live in the Sierra foothills near Yosemite National Park and have spent many summers packing into the mountain wilderness areas on horseback."

RNC provides a glimpse into future of GOP after Trump  . . . "Liberals believe that their view of culture will lead to a society of more racial progress. But Scott put a different spin on it, warning that the left-wing vision of America would crush the American Dream. Whether or not Trump pulls off another upset in November, or gets trounced, his influence on the Republican Party is likely to be felt well after he leaves office."

The Mirror-Image Convention  "The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention was a mirror image of last week's Democratic telethon. The issues that the Democrats ignored—violence in the cities and China—were mentioned again and again. Where the Democrats showcased elected officials and celebrities, some of the most effective speeches on night one of the RNC came from lesser-known individuals such as activist Andrew Pollack, Cuban immigrant Maximo Alvarez, and nurse Amy Ford. The phrase "systemic racism" wasn't heard. But paeans to American greatness and American exceptionalism limned each address.

A ragecat GOP convention with a fierce message of 'fight'  "The GOP is famous for its civility, its reasoned arguments, its uplifting messages, its thousand points of light, its doughty flag-waving.  Historically, it's always been a bit of an anti-climax to the more raucous version from the Democrats.
"Not this time.
"What stood out for me in this convention was not its uplift, which was there, but its ragecat fury, its fight.  As Eric Hoffer wrote in his 1979 memoirs: "People need to get angry," and earlier, "there is a lack of ability to get angry."
"The GOP is getting angry. " . . .