“MY pronoun,” said Cruz, “is ‘kiss my ass.’”
On Ted’s form of address I’ll take a pass.
A smooch bestowed on the croup of this solon
is honor paid to the poop of his colon.

The scatology of my lampoon is icky even to me, but language follows play-the-leader. Ted Cruz nominally represents Texas in the world’s — wait for it — “greatest deliberative body,” aka the U.S. Senate.

Kevin Phillips published The Emerging Republican Majority in 1969. The influential book presciently theorized that Republicans could build an enduring majority by attracting conservatives from the South and West who were troubled by “the Negro problem.” The “Sun Belt” (he coined the name) is now a GOP bastion.

(Jamelle Bouie, “This Is How the Republican Party Got Southernized,” New York Times, 10-13-23)

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