Anguished Plight…….Of Today's Republican Party Poem by James B. Earley

Graven innuendoes, 'We want to take our Country back' and 'Make America great again, ' - harsh images giving rise to cryptic wonder. Threats of walls and hostile words of racial animosity belligerently hurled towards its own citizens; years, quietly ignoring abject acts of racism within its ranks, the Republican Party now finds itself inextricably bound to a quagmire of its own making.

Subtle racism's welcomed acceptance provided legitimacy to Tea Party insurgents, validating the group's insensitive assertions. Offering nary a word of criticism towards countering its wayward base, and through that inaction, 'I said nothing, and then...they came for me.'

That is the anguished plight.....of today's...Republican Party.