I am an old Gen-Xer. I remember when the GOP was all about The Children ⟨™⟩. It was a winning stroke of GOP marketing. They were the party that was all about prosecuting bad guys and keeping children safe. Whitney Houston unwittingly gave them an anthem at the peak of the Reagan era. The political worship of children had reached a peak.

Well, now the GOP is all about terrorizing children. Just look to Donald Trump for an example. He wants gory, televised Federal executions, which he thinks will frighten children enough to prevent them for committing crimes.

The GOP has not cared about the actual welfare of children for over a century. So childhood poverty, malnutrition and the slow destruction of public schools is not their concern. Well actually, bleeding public schools dry and replacing them with for-profit charter schools is one of their goals. Children are valuable to the GOP if there’s money to be made.

More recently, the GOP has declared war on transgender children and transgender healthcare. They have gone after student athletes, student restrooms, course and curriculum content and the teachers and their unions.