Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, we have the latest political maneuvering from those who want to be the next Trump in the Republican Party.

There is the always reliable Rand Paul, who not only chooses to dismiss Dr. Fauchi, but continues to hold up a bill that would make lynching a federal crime. I guess he is going after the anti-science and pro-lynching vote.

Hot on his heels is Josh Hawley, our newly minted Senator from Missouri. He has decided that he will not vote for any Supreme Court Justice who won’t commit to overturning Roe v Wade. He hopes to get the real anti-abortion crowd before Ted Cruz and Mike Pence crank up their own anti-choice machines.

But, the real leader of this pack of rats is Tom Cotton of Arkansas. Remember he wrote in The New York Times an oped about the need to put the military in the streets in support of the Presidents’ fulminations. Now he wants to cut off funding for schools that use the 1619 Project, which focuses on slavery and its long-lasting effects on systemic racism in America. After all, as he explains, “slavery was a necessary evil” to build America. He says this was the belief of some of the Founders which, even if true, makes it no less disgraceful.  It would be like saying the Holocaust was a “necessary evil” to get the Allies together and defeat Hitler.

So, we now know how the race for what is left of the Republican Party will look.  If you are looking for things for which to thank our President, after his bungling of the coronavirus, the economy, or race relations, this would be a good place to start.

You can’t make this stuff up.