OK, Let's Review

On Election Day 2018, let’s review where we stand with our compatriots on the Right.

The Republican Party of November 2018:

Does not talk much about tax cuts, health care and the deficit—their thee biggest talking points during the Obama era—because their approaches have proven ineffective, unworkable and/or unpopular.

Demonizes immigrants as dangerous “invaders,” then refuses to take responsibility when an anti-semite murders Jews, inspired by this premise.

Does not condemn a GOP candidate in California for saying a Christian part-Arab running for office is attempting to “infiltrate” Congress.

Whips up anti-semitic hate aimed at a Jewish anti-Communist freedom fighter and Ronald Reagan admirer, who has worked tirelessly to fight corruption and support civil society around the world (that would be George Soros)…
 
 … while at the same time accepting PAC money from illiberal dictators like Viktor Orban and going soft on Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad and Mohammed bin Salman.

Actively works to undermine good government by leaving hundreds of jobs unfilled and elevating incompetent partisan hacks (such as Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke) to key posts.

Ignores science and a mounting climate crisis (reserving words like “crisis” to describe migrating bands of poor people), refusing to consider even bipartisan, market-based mitigation strategies like carbon pricing.

Actively undermines an investigation into Russian interference in American elections that has already produced enough credible evidence to ring up 32 indictments and guilty pleas—that’s 32 more than Whitewater, Benghazi, the Valerie Plame affair, the Torture Memos, the Bush White House “Lawyergate” mass email destruction and Hillary email controversies combined.

Has given up on addressing, much less prioritizing, a workable plan of resolution and exit strategy for the now 17-year war in Afghanistan, which has claimed the lives of over 2,370 U.S. military.

Has failed utterly to follow through on highly-touted infrastructure improvements necessary to maintain America’s economic competitiveness.

Passed a tax law designed to benefit the rich, with minimal tax benefits for the middle class (most of which sunset after a few years), which has exploded the deficit while generating little to no real wage growth—all while slashing IRS funds for rooting out tax fraud and corruption.

Controls a Congress that sits idly by as the executive branch attacks the free press, independent judiciary, electoral process and separation of powers, offering only a halfhearted defense of the right of legislators to defend the letter of the Constitution, while establishing new, damaging precedents for conduct in judicial appointments and supreme court nominations (remember Merrick Garland).

Refuses to take seriously ample evidence of vote suppression around the nation, some patently racially motivated, while touting unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud.