By IVONNE ROVIRA
Gather round, children. In 1987, at the height of Reagan America and its “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign, the administration released a commercial in which a father catches his son with weed. The father is upset: why would his son buy marijuana? And the son yells out, “I learned it by watching you!” Yes, your poor choices can inflict Reefer Madness on your children.
As hilarious as that is now, the commercial does make me think of Never-Trump Republicans like John Boehner, George Conway, Joe Walsh, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, and others. Sure, they’re appalled now by the crazies, the rampant bigotry, the blind adoration of Donald Trump. But when this racist, nativist, anti-science movement was building, they either did nothing or encouraged it.