{"id":4428,"date":"2026-02-20T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:08:07","slug":"who-are-you-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4428","title":{"rendered":"Who Are You Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s natural for political parties to evolve. Over the course of time, they adjust to meet the realities of their current era. A century ago, the Democratic Party was primarily a combination of Jim Crow southerners and working-class northerners. Sixty years later it started shifting more toward the party of minorities and women. And today, it’s the neurotic, often self-defeating mishmash that we all know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the Republican Party evolved over time, too. But these past couple of decades, it’s been not so much a shift as an astonishing, mind-bending leap. I think Ronald Reagan, and especially Gerald Ford, would find the current GOP absolutely unrecognizable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case in point, the willy-nilly, money-is-no-object acquiring and transforming of warehouses into detention centers for (let me check my notes) anybody potentially opposed to them! Their plan is to spend $38.3 billion<\/a>. Give or take. (The modern GOP doesn’t seem to be all that concerned about budgeting.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of this, there is a proposed detention center<\/a> in southeast Michigan that is being marketed as a job creator and an economy stimulator. Where have all the fiscal conservatives gone? Where have all the strict constitutionalists gone? Where have all the rational adults gone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s natural for political parties to evolve. Over the course of time, they adjust to meet the realities of their current era. A century ago, the Democratic Party was primarily a combination of Jim Crow southerners and working-class northerners. Sixty years later it started shifting more toward the party of minorities and women. And today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}