On guns, the caucus proclaims itself the defender of freedom, yet it advances this freedom as the liberty to perish—whether in the gory spectacle of school shootings or the quiet despair of suicides facilitated by unfettered access to firearms. If the Stoics taught us to master our passions, the modern GOP teaches us to bow to them, transforming the Second Amendment from a safeguard of civic virtue into a fetishistic totem. Where is the prudence of Aristotle's golden mean in this orgiastic worship of unregulated armament?

On healthcare, the caucus positions itself not as a steward of the common good but as a saboteur. If Hippocrates vowed to "do no harm," the GOP's healthcare stance might as well be a repudiation of that ancient oath. They reduce the complexity of ailing bodies and broken systems to the cold calculus of markets, ignoring that even Adam Smith—to whom they so often genuflect—acknowledged the necessity of moral sentiments. Their opposition to accessible healthcare betrays not just the poor but also the classical ideal of the polis, wherein the health of the individual is inseparable from the health of the community.

Even on issues of identity and race, where the party might once have offered a principled stance, it now festers in the swamp of passive aggression. If they must be racist, why not stand openly and defiantly, like the tyrants of antiquity who at least wore their villainy without disguise? Instead, they traffic in dog whistles and shadow plays, crafting policies that harm minorities while disingenuously claiming to champion colorblindness. It is the worst of all worlds: moral cowardice dressed as pragmatism, malice cloaked in the rhetoric of fairness.

This is a caucus that venerates an imagined past while dismantling every mechanism that might allow for a coherent future. They invoke the Founding Fathers yet betray their intellectual lineage at every turn, abandoning the reasoned debates of Jefferson and Hamilton for the shrill histrionics of cable news demagogues. They claim to uphold tradition, but their actions are a mockery of conservatism as Burke or Tocqueville might have understood it. To conserve is to cherish, to steward, to protect. The modern GOP conserves nothing but its own degenerative spiral.

One might ask: is this deliberate? Is there some infernal genius behind this consistency of error, or is it mere inertia, the aimless drift of a party unmoored? Perhaps the answer lies in the lessons of Thucydides, who chronicled the ruin of Athens as much through hubris as through calculated folly. Like the Athenians in their Sicilian Expedition, the Republican Caucus charges headlong into disaster, convinced of its own invincibility despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

It is a sickening spectacle—not because they are wrong, for all humans are fallible, but because they are so utterly unwilling to confront their wrongness. This is a caucus that has traded its soul for talking points, its legacy for lobbyist dollars, its integrity for a seat at the table. They are a tragedy not of greatness undone but of mediocrity entrenched, a reminder that the decline of republics is seldom the work of barbarians at the gates but of quislings within the walls.

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Yet the modern Alcibiades is the (((jewish billionaire class)))

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