And Muzak filled the air from Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls

Let’s check in on the nation’s most ridiculous and therefore representative Republican primary, shall we? Let’s start with the frontrunner:

“diversity, equity and inclusion are not American principles”

–#OHSen candidate Mike Gibbons pic.twitter.com/uXjqWyobFo— Plunderbund (@plunderbund) April 6, 2022

I suppose there’s some truth to this, in Garry Wills’s sense that running people out of town on rail is as American as declaring inalienable rights. But it’s certainly the defining principle of the Party of Calhoun.

Meanwhile, Josh Mandel is inventing anti-gun-control views for One Speech With One Sentence Martin Luther King with gruesome results:

I’d encourage @JoshMandelOhio to take his own condescending advice and “study your history,” because it’s clear he doesn’t know a damn thing about it.

But I would like to thank him for providing this example in why Critical Race Theory can be useful. Hell of an own goal.— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 6, 2022

But of course the most ridiculous of all is the human manifestation of Thiel Capital, who has suddenly discovered that the mother he relentlessly attacked in print for profit, fun, and above all profit does not in fact bear Personal Responsibility but is the helpless victim of Mexicans Not Sending Us Their Best:

The racism is front and center in this ad, but don’t miss the part where he tries to invoke his love of his mother after he famously shat all over her in a bestselling book. https://t.co/ITtq9l638F— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) April 5, 2022

Not a lot of good is going to come out of this election cycle, but watching Vance get absolutely creamed will be an exception.