Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 65th Edition. Reprehensible and Admirable.

The actions by Wyoming's GOP in regard to its Republican Governor, that is.  That's reprehensible.

Here's the story:

Wyoming Republican Party Censures Gov. Gordon; Gray Approves

After declining to even debate the topic, the Wyoming Republican Party censured Gov. Mark Gordon at its state convention on Saturday. Sec. of State Chuck Gray said he approved of the censure saying Gordon needed "accountability."

The corpse of the GOP is really beginning to smell.

Accountability?  The Wyoming GOP, solidly in the grips of Dixiecrats, isn't looking at much of the world realistically, and as House Member Jerry Obermeuller pointed out in his op ed in the Trib, the claim that it admires Wyoming's "traditionalism" is a joke.  It's assaulting that traditionalism, looking more to the traditionalism of the post Reconstruction South.  It's frightening.

But then there was this:

Wonders Never Cease

As Fr. Franco points out, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is suddenly acting like a responsible real conservative, just as Governor Gordon has been all along.    The Wyoming GOP, which had been badly behind the curve recently, might not be noticing this, but with even populists dumping Congress and some in real election trouble, we might barely, only barely, hope that the Trump Reign of Terror may be starting to wane.  

Johnson has made much of his being a religious man, which he genuinely is.  He apparently prayed before ultimately taking this action, and he suddenly seems to have a spine.  

Wyoming's lone Congressman, attuned to her populist base, voted against the aid.  This will please the populists, who are not conservatives.  Secretary of State Gray, no doubt, would state he was against the aid package if asked, but nobody will bother to ask him.  He's running for Governor right now, and the State best dearly hope that a traditionalist, such as the type Obermueller mentioned, runs.  

But here's the thing.  Politics are fickle.  If Putin wins in Ukraine and in a year or two rolls in to Poland and the Balkans, the very people today who have a Sweet Home Alabama type of view of the world will be all for the fight, which they won't be in.  And nobody will remind them either, as all of the Trumpist will claim they were never for him, when that day comes.

Sadly, it appears to have a strong chance of coming.

But, as Fr. Franco noted

The prophet Ezekiel famously said: if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. 

Things have a way of going in directions we can't predict.  Maybe there's hope yet.

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