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Remember that time a GOP presidential candidate was caught on tape saying he liked to grab women by the p*ssy and then a month later 62 million Republicans, mostly values voters, voted for him?
Remember that time a GOP candidate for House of Representatives in Montana body slammed a reporter for asking him a question and then 256K values voters in Montana voted for him?
Remember that time Roy Moore was exposed as someone who preyed on young women and had been banned from an Alabama mall for that behavior and then 651K values voters in Alabama pulled the lever for him?
Remember that time avowed antisemite and neo-Nazi Patrick Little ran for Senate in California and 71K values voters in the GOP voted for him? idahopress.com/eyeonboise/cal…
Remember that time way back in 2018 when an actual National Socialist named Arthur Jones ran for Congress in Illinois and 57,000 GOP values voters pulled the lever for him?
Remember that time Paul Nehlen, someone who was too much of a white supremacist for Breitbart, but not too much of an antisemite for Diamond and Silk to do paid work for him, won 10,000 GOP votes in the 2016 primary running against Paul Ryan?
Remember that time GOP candidate Seth Grossman approvingly and unapologetically posted a white supremacist article and then 10,000 GOP values voters in New Jersey chose him to be the GOP nominee?
I could go on, but you get the point. This is why that heinous, hateful, genocidal video played at Trump Doral for the enjoyment of Trump's strongest supporters is not just "a joke." The political culture of the GOP is becoming more sociopathically anti-democratic every day.
Every single person in the GOP knows that Trump sees nothing wrong with that video. He probably thinks it's hilarious. Those who do not speak out forcibly against such things now are complicit with whatever terrible acts some future Ceasar Sayoc attempts.
The debasement of the GOP leadership is bad. What's potentially more dangerous is the extent to which the toxic and knowingly dishonest political culture of that party has radicalized significant portions of their base.
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