*The GOP Has Become a Death Cult.*

I would say, rather, that the Republican Party has merged with a variant of Christianity that is death cult.

Starting from their mad premises, their reasoning is rational. If there were a heaven where you would be eternally happy, why hesitate to die in a way that would get you in? Indeed, Christians had to decide that suicide was a sin, or their believers would have eagerly begun the trip to heaven.

This simply demonstrates that madness requires nothing more than the adoption of mad premises.

Beware the temptation to go to the opposite extreme. There is no reason to take risks to continue the dooH niboR economy, but there are parts of the economy we must take risks to continue. We need to grow food -- and make sure everybody gets enough. And we must be ready, now as in the past, to take risks to defend our freedoms.