MANSFIELD: The Elephant Graveyard

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Our beloved Q, the home of our world basketball champions Cavaliers — led by the even more beloved LeBron James — has been turned into a cemetery for four days, a suicide venue where the elephants of the Republican Party go to kill themselves off.

But it’s a die-off that’s been decades in the making.

Ever since the signing of the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, Republicans have been attempting to block black Americans from making progress towards equality by using any underhanded political method at their disposal, and now the chickens of their efforts have come home to roost in the person of Donald Trump. He took their whispered and coded messages and went public with them, thus exposing the GOP for what it really has been all along: Racist.

And in spite of the efforts of more moderate members of the party try to break the iron grasp the demagogue has on the faithful, just like bad credit they’re stuck with him, and now have to sit idly by and watch the party of Lincoln kill itself off. And it’s not a pretty sight to watch. But, again, it’s of their own making.

Republicans who formerly expressed dismay and outright disgust at Trump and his knuckle-dragging, Neanderthal tactics — his name calling, bullying and even mocking of a disabled reporter — are now furiously backtracking, using their hatred of Hillary as an excuse to justify their support for the most divisive and bigoted character to ever run for the presidency.

After Trump’s campaign crashes and burns (and trust me it will; his wife’s plagiarizing of a Michelle Obama speech almost word for word is only the beginning of their silliness), Republicans will lament the fact they didn’t work hard enough to assure the nomination of a sane candidate, and failing in that, should have simply stood mute and not supported the demagogue. It would have been far better to suck it up and accept four or eight years of Hillary than to kill the party off.

What the Republicans will be left with after the November debacle is a party in shambles and total disarray, a mere shell of what it once was. It will have ruined its chances of electing a president from the Republican Party for the foreseeable future — if not forever.

And it serves them right.

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From Cool Cleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available again in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author by visiting http://NeighborhoodSolutionsInc.com.

 

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2 Responses to “MANSFIELD: The Elephant Graveyard”

  1. Don Brown

    We live in a great city in a magnificent nation big enough and strong enough to realize difference in opinion is healthy and desirable. There are good honest decent well intended people on both sides of every issue.

    CoolCleveland has been a terrific website and app. CC has encouraged us to support our city, and love our neighbors in ways we never had before. Thanks!

    We have had a once in a lifetime opportunity this week to show just how wonderful our city is. Agree or disagree, the editorial on the elephant cemetery was very poorly timed. It was antagonistic in a way I have never seen on this website, The tone was inappropriate. I am saddened this column was presented at the moment it was.

  2. Richard Pace

    Mansfield, I appreciate your concern for the Republican Party. If I remember correctly, the last KKK member in the US Senate was Democrat Sen. Byrd. Also, career Democrat George Wallace may take the award of “Most Racist” Presidential Candidate. And yes, Civil Rights legislation would have been blocked by the Democrats in Congress if not for the Party of Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas.
    As a lifelong Republican, I do not support the inflammatory comments from Trump, but our Country can’t afford Hillary in the White House.

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