The traditional American Republican Party has fallen. Donald Trump has made a hostile takeover. The GOP, for 150 years as a strong American conservative, patriotic, principled political party exists no more, even though they say they do. Donald Trump is a nihilistic rogue autocratic demagogue who is a danger to America's democracy. That's what scott cartoons.Ten years of mostly published political cartoons by M. Scott Byers, an Austin-based political cartoonist, are germane to Texas Trumpery. The text and cutlines to the cartoons reveal Texas - for 30 years one of the most Republican states in America, as taken over by The Trumpery in 2015. The formerly Republican statewide elected office holders, still maintain the Republican moniker but Scott shows with 240 cartoons over 136 pages that this is a sometimes laughable but not so funny joke. Many issues for the past ten years are covered with text, cartoons and cutlines to the cartoons. It's admittedly not a fine work of prose but maybe it's more - just read the damnable cartoons, skip the text. The intent is to convince Texas and national Republicans of their slime-slide into The Trumpery and the horrific mistake of zoning out under Donald Trump's voodoo. This is a message delivered by Scott's self-description as a very common principled middle class past Republican by acknowledging science and truth are indeed real and refuting Trump's prejudices and scary attacks on American institutions and traditional mainstream news media. He jokes about this, so this is a battle of the jokesters. Do we care about America's Democracy? Americans have only died for it. Trump crudely sucks away.
