AN INQUIRY INTO THE MAGA MIND.

There's something wrong with Republicans. A mind-worm maybe, or a dimming of intellect. I can't begin to guess the cause, but such behavior is well-represented in the realm of Maga, and undetected by the non-maga corpse of the Republican party.

How, for Instance can a preening woman who shot her dog for not being sufficiently obedient, and then shot her goat for the period on the point of the exclamation mark, be appointed to any public position, let alone an office where such fraught language as Homeland Security is used. In what alternate universe can a woman be appointed Director of National Security, when she had been investigated and not cleared, by the FBI as a national security threat. That woman is Tulsi Gabbard, washed in the cleansing waters of maga-dom. And how do you explain Steven Miller, Trump's Reichsmarshall. He is a ripe  pustule of fascism, ready for Dr Pimple-popper. There are more, there's not enough time. 

Indulging in speculation, which I am often prone to do, I think there must be some deep underground movement to retrain weak minds to think that they are not defined by the Dunning-Krueger Effect. For instance, I give the recently deceased Dick Cheney, and the concept of 'unitary executive' that has been kicked around Republican circles for years, like a marble on the pre-school floor.

It was Dick Cheney from whom I first heard this, back when he was Vice President to George W Bush. Unitary Executive has no place in the mouth of an elected official, unless there is only one elected official that counts. Yet Dick Cheney felt comfortable suggesting this to President W. In the end, they did not give unitary executive a try. Why? Maybe Cheney, with his interest in Halliburton Company, thought that was a battle that should not be fought during the Gulf War. Or maybe President W didn't choose to pursue this because it sounded fishy. In the end we were safe for a while from executives wishing to be unitary.

Something happened between the end of Trumps first term, and the beginning of Trump's non-consecutive second term. For one, the people who served his first term had a sense of smell, and the trumpstink was undeniable. When they left the party they wrote books and would not be welcomed back. Sadly, President Trump 2.0 did not look among the various departments for qualified professionals. He went far afield to field a team of incompetents willing to kiss up to the Boss. He staffed the most critical departments of this nation, with the Soprano Crime family. Tony Soprano, you might remember was a mob boss. Not the big boss, the capo di tutti capo, but an under-boss with anxiety issues that drove him to seek the aid of a shrink.  But his local crime family was very loyal. So loyal they would take a bullet for the Boss. And they were not averse to sending a bullet for the boss. The Trump crime family are loyal to Profect 2025, a Heritage Foundation plan to strike at the foundation of our democratic foundations. And maybe, maybe, there's are people in the deep background that will take a bullet or fire a bullet for the boss. There are just too many loose ends. From Ivana's stumble down the stairs at her residence, with coffee in hand. To the young man who was killed in Butler Penn. after shots were fired at the president. Yet the bullet that grazed his ear did not leave a mark. And then there's the questionable death of Jeffrey Epstein. And even Charle Kirk. In previous years the FBI and DOJ would have well-trained investigators to get to the bottom of the incident. Those two legal agencies which had somewhat cleaned up their act since Watergate, are now in the hands of Pamela Bondi (DOJ) and the appropriately named, Kash Patel (FBI). Nobody would ever think those two are qualified for the offices they serve. But Republicans, and they would believe anything. And that's the acorn of this oak of wisdom. Normal people, even George W Bush, would hear that phrase, unitary executive, and pause. There's something here that does add up. A flaw maybe. That sense of caution does not get nourished in Republican circles these days. Caution being an essential part of conservatism at one time; though not today. They are raised on hyperbole yet do not know the last half of that definition is, 'not meant to be taken seriously.' Lies are never questioned. From the president on down, everybody is stretching some kind of truth. And for the president's inner circle, somebody collects the grift.