For the royalists always ye have with you At Saturday’s Martin Luther King prayer breakfast here I spotted a local Republican, a former elected, who sometimes commented back in the day at Scrutiny Hooligans (my Asheville group blog, RIP). When in 2011 I posted a piece titled “Colonist or Royalist” likening corporate Republicans and T-partiers to those who backed King George III, the British East India Company, and other elites who “don’t care about your jobs or your economy, and they don’t care about you,” it really got under his skin. Too close to the bone? He stopped coming. I kept using royalists. Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (speaking of Iowa) said this in 2017 about eliminating the estate tax (Des Moines Register): “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing,” Grassley said, “as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.” My 2017 post on this continued: In Iowa and in other Republican primary states to come, cosplaying patriots are lining up to crown a king. Or a dictator. Whatever. Because freedom. (Cue Inigo Montoya.) Guess I know where I’m buying liquor next time I’m in Miami-Dade. For more sophisticated (and tested) messaging, today Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Words to Win By Season 3 launch day! Protecting Our Freedoms: Defeating MAGA Republicans in the 2022 Midterms – United StatesIn the 2022 Midterms, Americans defied polling, pundits and precedent to stave off the predicted Republican…