The 2024 RNC was a festival of crackpots and cranks

In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, 1984, the main character Winston Smith has this to say:

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.

Watching some of the goings-on at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, disbelief vied with horror for supremacy over what was unfolding in front of my very own eyes. The speeches, the interviews, the sheer number of wack-jobs sitting in the audience with fake ear bandages on in tribute to Dear Leader Donald J. Trump.

If this is the future then the future is doomed.

The Old Testament descended on the Fiserv Forum in this typically midwest town, with the sure knowledge that most if not all of the attendees and delegates are in possession of their own personal arsenal of assault weapons a frightening one.

The complete take over of the republican party by Trump is now so complete the GOP has taken on the character of a business, just another component of the Trump Empire in service to a family of reprobates. There he was, soaking it all up, the ocean of veneration and worship being shoveled his way like so much ordure on your average farm. In the process no cliche, no bible verse, no…