POLITICS
The Definition of Insanity
Most Americans don’t like right-wing extremism. The Republican Party couldn’t care less.
The witticism, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” is often misattributed to Albert Einstein, even though the physicist never actually made the statement. Regardless of the maxim’s origin, it doesn’t take a genius to recognize that the Republican elections strategy is about as close to political insanity as it gets.
After election losses in 2018 and 2020, missing the “red wave” in 2022, Republicans ran on the same unpopular set of so-called “wedge issues” going into this month’s elections. For some reason, they expected a different outcome.
In 2015, the then-presidential candidate Donald Trump promised we’d “have so much winning” if he were elected, so much so we might be bored by all the winning. And in the eight years since he made his bold prognostication, there has been plenty of winning. Fortunately for the state of democracy, Democrats are doing most of it. And less than a year until the November elections, we cannot afford to be bored.
