“IT WAS AN EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT.” REPUBLICAN STRATEGISTS, PUNDITS, AND OFFICE HOLDERS ARE COMPARING THEIR RECENT HUMILIATING MIDTERM ELECTORAL WIPEOUT TO THE IMPACT OF THE ASTEROID WHICH IS POPULARLY BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED THE EXTINCTION OF NEARLY ALL OF THE DINOSAURS-SAVE THOSE THAT WOULD EVOLVE INTO MODERN DAY BIRDS-SOME SIXTY-SIX MILLION YEARS AGO. THESE SENTIMENTS HAVE CREATED NO SMALL AMOUNT OF CONFUSION AND EVEN CONTROVERSY AMONG CONSERVATIVE VOTERS AS REPUBLICANS HAVE HISTORICALLY CLAIMED TO BELIEVE IN THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST DOCTRINE OF CREATIONISM WHICH ASSERTS THAT THE EARTH IS ONLY TEN THOUSAND YEARS OLD, THAT EVOLUTION IS A LIE PERPETUATED BY SECULAR HUMANISTS, THAT DINOSAURS ARE A COMMUNIST HOAX ORCHESTRATED BY HILLARY CLINTON AND, THEREFORE, THAT DINOSAURS NEVER ACTUALLY WALKED THE EARTH. NOW, MANY FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE OPENLY QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT DONALD TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY EVER CARED ABOUT THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE, WITH SOME ACCUSING THE G.O.P. AND TRUMP OF EXPLOITING BOTH THEIR IGNORANCE AND THEIR EXTREME ANTI-SCIENCE BELIEFS FOR POLITICAL GAIN . . .
