My point is that I wasn’t. It’s been more than a decade since I first said it’s no longer possible to be a patriot and a Republican. There was Gingrich, sitting Congressmen shooting melons to prove Clinton murdered Vince Foster, the announcement that Republicans had given up on democracy by refusing to compromise, and that was the 1990s. The Bush theocracy, Freedom Fries and pouring French wine in the gutter, the response to Obama, putting Palin on the ticket with McCain, the Tea Party… Orange Julius wasn’t inevitable, but something was coming. It was just a question of the form it would take. It’s true, I didn’t expect him to win, I figured it would be somebody smarter like DeSantis.

If you go back through my older stories, you’ll find one called On the UnGodliness of Alternative Energy: the day I found the magic political decoder ring and realized America was done for. I realized for absolute certain that “America is a dead country walking” on Friday, June 6th, 2014. 6:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Yes, they are worse than even I thought they would be, but only a matter of time rather than degree. They’ve gotten worse sooner — the writing has been on the wall for the GOP for a long time. Most people just haven’t been paying attention. Or maybe they just want to think better of their fellow humans and their brains won't process it.