On the spectacle of Republicans trying to head off the anti-government movement now led by Donald Trump

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I have to admit it's been really fun,

Republicans frantic to undo what they've done,

To put the toothpaste back into the tubes,

And thus head off the Revolution of Rubes.

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Since Reagan they've pulled on the heartstrings of greed,

Of wallets, low taxes, all the better to feed

The craving for guzzlers, the show of good life,

Government being but a WalMart midwife.

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Down and down the public head dumbed,

Till now a point that it's totally numbed

To the needs of compatriots or Latin wannabe,

Who heal their hunger with crime gonnabe.

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But finally Repubs have seen their creation,

Go to the polls and raise a tarnation,

And elect the ultimate in anti-gov grit,

Whose anti-gov talk for once is no skit.

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Mitt and John M. have condemned in riposte,

Though I have to wonder what troubles them most:

The fact that Donald owes the party but zilch,

Or that foreign policy from them he will filch.

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Neocons, y'see, like f.p. with a bang,

Be it from drones or the army's big fang.

But Don, who knows a bad deal when it squawks,

Reads the wall's writing: "it's the smart guy who walks."

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And walk he will as the going gets toughy

From Iraq and Af-Pak and others as scruffy.

For Don sees the world as profit evolved,

And won't be troubled by calls for "resolve."

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But Repubs, the party, shouldn't take all the blame.

Saturday N. L. made Don's race-hate a game.

Fox News called up Trump to comment on matters,

Classic Fox trites known as "thinking-man spatters."

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To give him his due, Trump played his cards smart,

Using news moguls and opportunity's art.

Nobody thought he'd be taken for real,

But now that he is, the Republicans squeal.

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Cooler t'would be to run a Pink Revolution,

Orange or Vermilion as per your solution.

But it seems our rev will be of the Rubes,

Such is America: dumbed down the tubes.

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