GOP’s boat ride into darkness

“The horror. The horror. . .” – closing lines from “Apocalypse Now.” I didn’t think of contrasting the Republican Party’s current situation with Francis Ford Coppola’s movie masterpiece until the New York Times editorialized about Donald Trump’s ascendancy and the Republican Party’s “trek into darkness.” “Apocalypse Now,” based on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” is…

GOP’s garden of fraudulent pretenses

We’re told that women’s health is the concern motivating increasingly restrictive laws bearing on abortion providers. No, it’s not. We’re told that voter fraud is the concern behind increasingly restrictive voter I.D. laws. No, it’s not. We’re told that more efficient and cost-effective government motivates privatization. Again, no. These lies have been sculpted into truths…