Never forget "Bedtime for Bonzo"

Driftglass:

....Remember when Reagan's record of cruelty and extremism as California's governor and the pall of the Goldwater debacle and the Nixon catastrophe that still hung over the party---made it a punchline that the Party of Lincoln would nominate and elect the co-star of Bedtime for Bonzo?

If you never underestimate how deeply the Right hates this country you'll never be caught by surprise by anything that the MAGA Fascist Party gets up to....