How did the Right come to hate this country so much?
Remember when (justifiably) criticizing the United States, even over minor flaws/errors, would cause the Right to seethe with contempt over your lack of Patriotism?
Yet now,….1/
Remember when (justifiably) criticizing the United States, even over minor flaws/errors, would cause the Right to seethe with contempt over your lack of Patriotism?
Yet now,….1/
...the Right claims the country is a cesspool run by corrupt, deep-state conmen who have exploited the system to get rich.....
....and that none of this country's institutions (FBI/Intelligence/democracy/etc.) can be trusted, and therefore must be torn down. 2/
....and that none of this country's institutions (FBI/Intelligence/democracy/etc.) can be trusted, and therefore must be torn down. 2/
We are currently seeing this in real time as Trump challenges the election in the courts. The danger being exposed during all of this is that the Right’s contempt isn’t limited to just the “liberal judges” whose professional integrity can’t be trusted because they’re liberal….3/
...the contempt also extends to Republican state office holders and a Trump-appointed appellate court judge/panel who wrote an opinion, that not only eviscerated Trump’s legal claims, but emphasized the danger that Trump and the conspiratorial Right poses to our democracy. 4/
Article III of the Constitution empowers the judicial branch to finds facts/settle disputes. When half the country believes that every “liberal” judge, and any Republican judge that rules against Trump is corrupt and can’t be trusted, then this country is headed for disaster. 5/
The Right's emotionally-reactive, unhinged, conspiratorial paranoia has reached such a fever pitch that, simply for following the law, lifelong Republicans are being cannibalized by the Right, labeled “enemy of the people” by Trump,...6/
fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-s…
fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-s…
....and lumped into the “whole system is corrupt”, and has-been-for-a-long-time rationalization of why everything/everyone who does not blindly support Trump or unquestioningly believe the conspiracy theories…must be torn down.
Again, why does the Right hate America so much? 7/
Again, why does the Right hate America so much? 7/
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