The Republican Party Believes in Nothing

The Dude’s Nihilist antagonists, played by (l-r) Flea, Torsten Voges and Peter Stormare, in a still frame from the Joel and Ethan Coen film The Big Lebowski (Lebowski Wiki)

“They weren’t Nazis, Walter,” said The Dude in a memorable scene from the Coen Brothers cult film The Big Lebowski. “They said they were nihilists.”

“Fuck me,” Walter answered after a sobering moment. “Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.”

In the runup to the 2016 Republican National Convention, the Trump campaign…