Various publications are reporting this morning that the GOP is contemplating a police reform bill. This is a truly stunning development, even though you can be sure that there will be nothing to it in practice, just as there is never any substance to GOP gun control initiatives.
Why is this important? Because it is the Republican Party that we are talking about here, folks. The party of swagger and the big dick! The party of the Second Amendment people! The party of strength! The party of shoot first and ask questions later! The party that holds the gun in one hand and the Bible in the other, and sees them as one and the same! The party with the reactionary base which must always be obeyed!
McConnell, Trump, and the rest must be reading the polls and getting very, very worried. Maybe base mobilization isn’t, in fact, the way to win national elections.