This is the party that stood for something.
This is the party that balked as it morphed into a snarling white man,
a pussy-grabber,
a mocker of the disabled,
a denouncer of the judge of color—
a sympathizer of the neo-Nazi.
This is the party that spoke words against that man
whilst opening unto him
the gates of America.
This is the party that bled itself on the edges of that man’s Presidential Seal,
and using their blood,
signed with him a pact:
poison and ignorance and fear across the land,
and in return,
power.
This is the party that,
on that day and every day hence,
sacrificed the people of the world on so many miserable and ancient altars.
This is the party that stood for something.