These caricatures of the Republicans who want to be their party's nominee for president was just too funny to pass up. The top image is of the 10 most popular candidates with the Republican base, and the bottom shows those relegated to a second-tier status (i.e., made to sit at the Kiddie table).
Frankly, I don't understand how any American with even half a brain could even consider voting for one of these candidates. They all oppose raising the minimum wage, want to give more tax breaks to the rich, support cutting food stamps and other programs that help the underprivileged, want to give more subsidies to giant corporations, support the off-shoring of good American jobs, oppose union representation for workers, don't see the vast wealth/income gap in this country as a problem, support the right of power plants and other industries to pollute our environment, deny the existence of global climate change (global warming), would like to cut (or privatize) Social Security and Medicare benefits, believe women/homosexuals/minorities don't deserve the same rights that white men have, and want to suppress the votes of those they think might not vote for them.
They are a boil on the butt of this country, and the America they want would be a nation of haves and have-nots (with most Americans falling into the have-not category). They want to turn the world's most powerful democracy into a plutocracy -- a country ruled by the rich for the rich.
None of these clowns is worthy to even shine the shoes of Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders -- and I look forward to one of them trying to debate the Democratic nominee.
The economics journalist (and probably a PhD economist at this point) Noah Smith wrote something interesting about a month ago. He's not really a partisan, but he is part of the reality-based world. He said let's go ahead and agree that lowering taxes and regulation under Reagan helped the economy a fair amount. (It certainly didn't help that much, but it's a hypothetical.) But then doing so under George W Bush didn't do anything. Smith argued that whatever boost we got from these conservative policies are done. The "low hanging fruit" has been got. But Republicans continue to push for ever lower taxes and regulations, as if it will help the economy as it supposedly did under Reagan. But that's unreasonable. His overall point was that the Republicans really need to get some new ideas. But as you noted above, they aren't about to do that.
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