1/ @SykesCharlie is correct to note that while he is still their party leader, the crazy in the GQP has metastasized beyond Trump.
With the orange shit stain's defeat, and the aftermath of 1/6, the Republican party had a choice... Repudiate Trumpism, or double down on it.
With the orange shit stain's defeat, and the aftermath of 1/6, the Republican party had a choice... Repudiate Trumpism, or double down on it.
2/ What did they do? They consciously chose to triple down.
They are fully aware how far they traveled into the mud pit with Trump, it would take decades to properly fix. They know it would take an enormous amount of work for sane/intelligent Americans to trust them again.
They are fully aware how far they traveled into the mud pit with Trump, it would take decades to properly fix. They know it would take an enormous amount of work for sane/intelligent Americans to trust them again.
3/ Thus, for the complicit GQP, it's easier to continue placating to the cult they radicalized.
You have cowardly self-serving disappointments like @NikkiHaley, who rebuked Trumpism after 1/6, but immediately recanted when it was not received well by the base.
You have cowardly self-serving disappointments like @NikkiHaley, who rebuked Trumpism after 1/6, but immediately recanted when it was not received well by the base.
4/ Or smarmy sleazeballs like @tedcruz, who went from "vote your conscience" to Trump seditionist in a relatively short amount of time. Or the Lil' @marcorubio, who went from "NeverTrump" to praising terrorists who tried to run a Biden campaign bus off the road at a MAGA rally.
5/ Then there are the true "believers" saturated in every corner of the "conservative" movement.
With constitutional and intellectual conservatives/moderates successfully ostracized, many clones within the GQP now use the ALT-REICH conspiracy kook Trumpy Dumpty template.
With constitutional and intellectual conservatives/moderates successfully ostracized, many clones within the GQP now use the ALT-REICH conspiracy kook Trumpy Dumpty template.
6/ They play the victim. They gaslight. They outright lie. They use the power of elected office to pen suppression and punishment laws. Their ultimate goal. An authoritarian Trumpian Utopia protected within a police state.
Think I'm kidding? Then you've been living under a rock.
Think I'm kidding? Then you've been living under a rock.
7/ Listen. When Trump lost, my initial plan was to take a long break from politics. It was a long 4 years with that piece of shit sitting in the Oval Office. So I understand the fatigue. I understand the desire to be indifferent.
8/ What changed my mind was the coup attempt against our country. It proved our greatest fears about damnable Trumpism were true.
That day proved it was worse than just bastardizing our movement or mere policy disagreements or a cult leader behaving unpresidental. Much worse.
That day proved it was worse than just bastardizing our movement or mere policy disagreements or a cult leader behaving unpresidental. Much worse.
x/ Our country is at a precipice. If we do nothing. If we say nothing. We deserve whatever ill befalls her.
#GOPBetrayedAmerica
#GOPBetrayedAmerica
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