Once The Grand Old Party - Now - America's Shame Poem by James B. Earley

Once the Grand Old Party
...Now America's shame
A bigoted mindset...having
...Simply...itself to blame

Trump's emergence
Can well be traced
To the Party's stalwarts
....Its bigoted base

Tea Party...for instance
....Innuendo signs
Barbecue...fried chicken
...Watermelon rinds

And Birther fabrications
...The Party chose to ignore
Along came The Donald
...Immediately...whored

Exposing to the world
...The heart and soul
A pathetic menagerie
...That's lost...control

Of the bigoted mindset
...Simply...itself to blame
Once the Grand Old Party
...Now...America's shame


Author's note:
"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
― William Shakespeare