Nearing the abyss of MAGA

The presidential race in the United States has come down to this, a brutal match between two political groups: the Democratic Party, currently in power, and the Make America Great Again group, still quaintly called the Republican Party. 

Actually, I take that back. There was, and is, nothing quaint about the hostile takeover of the GOP, the affectionate name for the Republican Party. The GOP has shared the political scene with Democrats since 1854. This duo of political life has worked civilly, more or less, for around 160 years.

Notable Republican presidents include Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and many others, whose policies, while not agreed upon by all, managed to hold the respect of the nation. 

This party is no longer recognizable. Unless a person knows nothing about the last nine years of political earthquakes,...