Have you mislaid a number of mind cells? Do you may have more and more weird delusions? Are you utterly befuddled about how the feminine physique works? Properly, congratulations! You've what it takes to forge a profitable profession as a Republican politician. Anybody watching current occasions unfold can be forgiven for pondering the principle abilities required for a job in Republican politics look like excessive bigotry mixed with a knack for saying no matter outlandish factor comes into your head first.
Even so, there are nonetheless occasions when Republican politicians can shock you with the depths of their inanity. Let me introduce you, for instance, to Scott Neely, who's operating for the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona. Throughout a televised debate final week Neely mentioned an Arizona abortion ban by invoking aliens. “If we discovered life on Mars, wouldn’t we do the whole lot in our energy to guard that life?” Neely requested. “Why can’t we deal with human life the identical approach we might deal with alien life?”
Neely would in all probability have quite a bit to speak about with Kristina Karamo, who's vying to turn out to be Michigan’s subsequent secretary of state, and has the endorsement of Donald Trump. Karamo has publicly mentioned (in a 2020 podcast that was publicised this week) that she thinks “demonic possession is actual” and may be sexually transmitted. Sadly for these of us not eager to catch a foul case of demonic possession, she didn’t go into the main points of how this works. Do contraceptives cease sexually transmitted demons? Inquiring minds need to know.
Karamo isn’t the one Republican to have made headlines in current weeks for her unorthodox views on biology. Utah Republican Karianne Lisonbee not too long ago apologised for saying she trusts girls to “management [their] consumption of semen” to be able to keep away from undesirable pregnancies. And, final month, Yesli Vega, who simply received a Republican main in Virginia, informed an interviewer that she had heard it was “more durable for a lady to get pregnant if she’s been raped … perhaps as a result of there’s a lot occurring within the physique”. Clearly, there’s not a lot occurring within the mind, or she may need realised what she had simply mentioned.
Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
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