Bad Crazy

 I know. I'm as guilty as anyone when it comes to poking fun at Republicans for being afraid of electric boats and sharks. Or being attracted to couches and dolphins. On any given day, the stuff that issues forth from the slit just beneath their noses is preposterous if not straight up laughable. 

Remember when the former game show host was joshing his pal Sean Hannity about being a dictator? He then backed up half a step and said he wouldn't. "Except for day one." That little exchange happened more than six months ago. Long before Project 2025 was on everyone's mind, it was being written and researched and created as a template "to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right." And while the former game show host has danced around the edges of this binder full of bad ideas, the round ball of sycophancy JD Vance was busy scribbling a foreword for a book about it. To wit: "We are now all realizing that it's time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon." 

See? It's all just metaphorical, right? He's talking about muskets, not AR-15s. He's talking about a fight with "ideas."

Well how about this idea: “I love you Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

These were the words of that former game show host as he spoke to a conservative Christian group in West Palm Beach, Florida on Friday, July 26. There were microphones in front of him. And cameras. They recorded him as he said them. It's not some dirty little secret. He is officially saying the quiet part loud. 

Not that he ever really had a quiet part. 

Sure, we could go ahead and say that he was "just riffing." Like the nonsense he babbles about Hannibal Lecter. He is the oldest candidate for president in the history of the United States, after all. He's just working the crowd. He's just trying to get a rise out of the media. Or his audience. Or his opponent. 

Doesn't matter. All of those excuses don't make it less of a threat to our democracy to have him get anywhere near the Oval Office again. It's not like the shark thing. It's not like the couch thing. It's like asking to be installed as a dictator. 

It's not just crazy. It's bad crazy.