Brother 1: Do you like parties?

Brother 2: Yeah.

Brother 1: We could invite all our friends and have soda and pie!

Brother 2: Yeah!

Brother 1: I hope no bad people show up.

From the Beastie Boys, (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

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That prologue is to a classic 80s song that was essentially a parody of frat boy culture, and one that its own authors refused to play because the people they were parodying didn’t see the joke.

But little did the Beastie Boys know that “party” would take on a whole new meaning.

Because Donald Trump, and his boys of MAGA pretty much cribbed the video and crashed first the Republican Party, and then made the same damage to the Democrats.

Most people fancy themselves as the rowdy frat boys and partiers, but the truth is, they are the nerdy sons and overbearingly tight-assed parents. They memorized a set of rules, refuse to step on inch away, and then are shocked that there are feral disruptors out there who flout those made-up rules.

The Republicans already chose Jeb Bush to be their presidential candidate and his war chest at the time was the largest of any candidate, Democrat or Republican, totalling a towering $114.4 million.

That’s a lot of soda and pie.

And then MAGA screamed at the front door, and the rest is history. The Republican Party was disrupted to the point for not being the same party it was before.

The 2020 Election and the 2026 midterms tried to kick the frat boys out once and for all.

But 2020 was a brief reprieve and MAGA came back to wreck the Democrat’s party, and not even changing the host from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris could stop it.

But Trump made big promises to make the party wild and prosperous.

The problem was he just wrecked things.

In 2016, he was MCA taking a sledgehammer to the television set and calling out the press for being “fake news” (not an incorrect assessment, but what he offered was “alternative facts”, making him no better, making it all the more easier for the profession to ignore their sins and falsely believe critics were inferior and wrong, forgetting that critics are not a hive mind blob).

In his second term, he literally wrecked the White House with some idea of putting in an unnecessary ballroom.

The placed got trashed, but unlike the video, there isn’t a clean escape.

And I am sure many people who once confused destroying other people’s property with rebellion, don’t find the notion charming anymore once they realized there is something called consequences.