Once Again, Dangerous Minds Crows About GOP Problems

This is what I was talking about when I mentioned Dangerous Minds' Richard Metzger and his frothing rants about the Republican Party.

This whole “GOP Civil War” thing we’ve been hearing about sounds like it’s about to get very interesting, very quickly. This is a loud shoe dropping. With the deep, deep unbridled fanaticism within the party’s ranks, any sort of perceived ideological “betrayals” by former allies in the conservative movement makes the likelihood of that once ironclad coalition splintering into warring former Republican factions seem likely indeed.

This piece isn't as full of schadenfreude as others but it is insightful as to what exactly Metzger believes is going on within the party. I'm allergic to this kind of horse-race politics but I am interested in the ideological assumptions that are on parade. Metzger is wrapped up in the spectacle as much as any eight-year-old that doesn't realize wrestling is fake. 

He's a great example of the myopia afflicting the Left's soldiers. Not only is he gleeful about any news that foretells the GOP's demise, he really thinks that it is a diametrically-opposed enemy. This is common among the garden-variety liberals that I know. The Republican establishment are theocratic puppet-masters, the Tea Partiers are in KKK robes after nightfall, and Ron Paul supporters are foil-hatted lunatics trying to return us to Hobbsian chaos. They truly have no idea that there are growing numbers of people with truly contradictory opinions.

I don't see a better possible option than the collapse of the Republican Party. For one, all it's been for the last 50 years is a fly trap for everyone who opposes the Left's policies, a way of neutralizing dissenters. More importantly, once it's gone, the Liberal Hate Machine will be forced to cannibalize itself. Soon enough, those that want Change Now! will be demonized by those who want Change Yesterday! God have mercy on the liberal who actually has convictions and finds that his views, once center-left, are now far-right.

Metzger reminds me of something I read at First Things (I think) when Andrea Dworkin died. Speaking to the writer, she was smart, witty and engaging until a feminism-related subject came up. At that, she snapped into street crazy mode and started ranting. (Anonymous Conservative is great at explaining this.) Metzger is the same way and it ruins his site. He's got very similar tastes in entertainment as I do (though we draw very different lessons from them). It's unfortunate that he regularly drops a bomb like this into the mix.