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This cannot be stressed enough.

The Republican Party used to get its principles and strategies from D.C. think-tanks and strategists.

Now, it comes from 4chan, 8chan, and whatever YouTube tin-foil hat wearing personality Sean Hannity's algorithm tosses at him on a Tuesday.
The Republican Party has legitimately gotten lost in its own narratives and can't see the difference anymore between reality and fiction. The feedback loop of Fox News and conservative media has entrapped them in a bizarre, nonsensical dystopia, and we're all suffering for it.
And whatever isn't dreamed up by fever-dreamed conspiracists online is introduced by foreign misinformation operations. This is the literal definition of a nightmare.
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It’s quite odd that the people calling for civility and unconditional respect of authority are the same ones who normalized Trump and then looked up in shock after his election and ensuing chaos and asked how it had happened.
Hear me out here: it’s almost like authority should be questioned and held to account and that politics isn’t some kind of game or opportunity to attend swanky dinner parties with celebrity friends but a life-or-death struggle that affects actual lives.
I know that’s *naive* and we should all treat it like a sport or like nothing matters, but while these country clubbers are hobknobbing and playing Hail to the Chief and getting misty over pictures of Reagan on a horse, there’s an authoritarian criminal in the White House.
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What Trump's booing at the World Series showed us is that he is universally reviled and there's a swell of support for his removal from power.

We should stop waiting for Republicans to discover their honor, harness our power as citizens, and direct this frustration into protest.
We've spent way, way, way too long believing the parties are going to do what's right and honorable as opposed to preserving their power and serving the donor class. Politics has been turned into a spectacle to watch, and we need to destroy that myth for forever.
What people often don't understand is that all of this is dependent on malleable narrative. If we made a show of our frustration, if it was large enough and consistent, the narrative will shift in ways we can't even imagine. That has to happen for this ship to turn around.
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Seriously. On the day it was announced the leader of ISIS was killed the President was so despised he got mercilessly booed by a crowd that called for his prosecution and all these people want to do is wring their hands and lecture about respect for authority.

Man. Alive.
This is a special level of dumb. Just because a man becomes president doesn’t mean he deserves respect or reverence. If he’s a criminal, he’s a criminal. If he’s disgusting, he’s disgusting.
The bootlicking in this country is off-the-charts and needs a serious and overdue reckoning. Reverence for titles and status is the fastest trek to fascism, folks. Get a clue and get it in a hurry.
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