1/x If you really want to see how things are in GOP politics, don't listen to talking head shows, just read the articles at Townhall written by party loyalists who want sore loser Trump to go away & then scroll down to the comments.
The article in question, by @RebeccaRoseGold, is a fairly neutral writeup for the crybaby speech the exprez delivered. It was massively triggering to the supposedly "tough" and "manly" Townhall audience.
The #1 voted comment whines that she invaded his safe space
"Douglas" gets some pushback but doubles down by implying that anything Trump claims is a "hoax" or a "crime" should be assumed to be so. No quotation marks allowed according to little Douglas.
Right-wing media audiences expect total devotion to the great leader
Others chime in as well, angry that Downs dared to quote Sen. Roy Blunt as saying it's time to move on and stop whining and crying about losing in 2020.
Of course, she's correct in this regard. Trump's sore loser response divides Republicans and alienates independents.
Later on in the discussion, after scores of offended, pearl-clutching remarks about neutral political coverage, one commenter claims that "real Americans" aren't afraid to state the truth. No one sees the hypocrisy
Further on, a Trump opponent who somehow hasn't been banned for political incorrectness gets a dig in at the failed exprez and is promptly told he's "blocked" by a baby who can't handle it
I won't quote all of them but the thread is filled with vituperations against someone just trying to do her job. Trumpism has become a cult whose followers demand total absolute obedience. Neutral journalism is not permitted, despite all the fake cries of "liberal media bias"
Townhall and every other conservative site is read by people who hate it. Far-right Republicans hate their own party and have for decades. Here's a comment thread degrading Downs and also Townhall writer Guy Benson for being gay.
The abuse goes on for hundreds more comments
This is how the comments on all major right-wing website are.
The GOP will never be rid of Trump until it casts out the vicious reactionaries who call themselves "conservatives."
He & they will gladly take down the GOP along w/them if they cannot destroy America /end
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Flashback lol of the day: Trump's top tariff adviser Peter Navarro made up a LARP of himself named "Ron Vara" which he repeatedly quoted in multiple books.
He even gave himself fictionalized biographical details, including being an Iraq war veteran. cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
Peter Navarro is such a crackpot that he has to literally invent economists who agree with him because everyone thinks he's insane.
This is who Donald Trump thinks is smart.
And btw, after Navarro was exposed for citing a fictionalized version of himself, he went and did it again, making up an email address for Ron Vara and circulating a memo during the first Trump term nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/…
🧵Carl Sagan wasn't religious, but he was still a prophet.
Working together, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and countless aids built the greatest diplomatic and economic structure the world has ever seen. This enraged religious fundamentalists.
Humanity was headed for the stars. But not on religious literalism's terms.
The Christian right rallied and began tearing at American greatness while blaming others for their actions.
Carl Sagan saw them coming.
Education investment and regulation was stopped. Superstition was enshrined in schools. Instead of covering health care and adding job guarantees, extreme Republicans cut welfare and outsourced jobs.
The far right created almost all the problems Trump voters are angry about.
🧵 Republican hatred of Democrats and of separation of church and state has significantly damaged political polling because reactionary Americans are willing to lie about their opinions if they think it helps Trump.
This fact has serious implications for Democrats...
I've written about how Republican voters now evince NPC-level responses to political polls. We're seeing that in particular with how Trump followers falsely thought the economy was in recession during Joe Biden's presidency, only to drastically reverse themselves under Trump
In academic political science, there have now been several studies about "expressive responding" among committed Republicans, especially regarding Trump's obvious lies about his 2017 inauguration crowd size online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…
Why is this happening? Primarily because fundamentalist Christianity has become an undead intellectual zombie.
What's even more bizarre and grotesque, however, is that Trumpian Christianity is much more about Nietzsche than Jesus.
Most contemporary fundagelical Christians have never heard of Friedrich Nietzsche, the profane atheist philosopher who died at the beginning of the 20th century. But his ideas are at the epicenter of the fascist Christianity they have embraced. plus.flux.community/p/the-apocalyp…
Living at the cusp of modernity, Nietzsche saw earlier than most that science and philosophy had totally destroyed Christianity's moral and scientific claims. "God is dead," he proclaimed, eager to establish a new morality based on power.
🧵 The election is going to be decided by people who don't like the candidates. Donald Trump always had a core of voters who don't like him but vote for him anyway.
It seems that the Harris campaign wanted to build a group of this kind for herself.
But the two parties' possible voter universes are not the same and cannot be motivated with the exact same tactics.
Historically, speaking, American political parties were multi-ideological. But the right wing activists who took over the Republicans changed the party.
They changed the nature of who was in the party. As the inventors of cancel culture, they kicked out all of the liberal and moderate Republicans who used to be very common.
They did this through relentless media propaganda aimed at Republicans to make them more reactionary.