When you listened to the Tea Party types, the survivalists, the unreconstructed white Southerners and the general mass of Trumplethinskins supporters, you mostly heard the whining about their loss of freedom, the injustice of "rule" by Big Government and how the good old USofA is not the "freedom lovin' country" it once was.

Yet here we are - with their own boy-man in power.  Who really does "rule" like a King. Who behaves like a King. Who arbitrarily decides like a King.  Freedom - and the different perspectives that come with it - seems to have been jettisoned as a value, or even a necessity, to be a true American.  Instead they are in favour of obsequious obeisance to their adored ruler - their new Mad King - an apt replacement for the one their more farsighted ancestors rejected and overthrew. 

The irony of it all is simply amazing, but of course, none of these groups "gets" or even does irony.  And again, where are the principled and democratic Republicans? 

Extinct perhaps?