I think calling out one guy's hypocrisy doesn't get at the depth of the phenomenon we're dealing with here. The whole modern conservative movement is drenched in bad faith 1/
The movement's goal is to win and hold power while pursuing an agenda that serves the interests of a wealthy few at the expense of ordinary families. To that end, it will adopt any argument or tactic that might work, never mind consistency 2/
So in this case people who just the other day used threats to withhold donations to push for tax cuts turn around and call perfectly reasonable efforts to affect a senator's vote "extortion" 3/
But put that in context: people who pursued Bill Clinton because the president's personal behavior should be a role model for the nation see no problem with a sexual predators in office, including the WH, if they're for tax cuts 3/
Paul Ryan tries to privatize Medicare and decimate its funding, then his allied PAC runs ads accusing *Democrats* of raiding Medicare 4/
Republicans spend years denouncing Democrats as unpatriotic, then have no problem with a president whose campaign was aided by Putin and cozies up to foreign dictators in general 5/
There are no principles beyond winning. Anyone who expects anything different, on any issue, is just going to be a useful idiot 6/
