Weird doesn’t do GOP justice

Democrats and the Harris campaign have seized upon a new meme to attach to Donald Trump, JD Vance and other Republicans. They are calling them weird.

Weird is an accurate descriptor for the behavior of the Republicans, and Trump has always behaved in ways which could only be considered abnormal, peculiar and pathological. However, the word “weird” should be given a rest now.

It is of urgent importance that no one be allowed to forget that Trump and the Republicans are obsessed with controlling others, violence, and new ways to gain and abuse power. The way they must be described and the words which should be repeated for the next three months are “extreme,” “dangerous,” “anti-democratic” and “un-American.”

They seek opportunities to punish those with whom they disagree and they entertain fantasies of torture, mayhem and destruction. Trump’s sadistic tendencies and his worship of totalitarian power are not weird; they are very familiar to those who have lived in countries where freedom, liberty and justice are only vague, dim and distant memories.

Weird is living in a house filled with stacks of old newspapers or believing that you are receiving messages via your mirror. Trump and his cult members are not weird, they are weak-minded, amoral brutes and bullies. They are arrogant, mean-spirited, cruel and petty. They are power-hungry hypocrites. We have had the words to identify their sick obsessions all along, and we should use them every chance we get.