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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Here is Charlie Kirk fantasizing about having children watch public executions and having them be turned into something like sporting events
Republican leaders spew violent rhetoric that is nothing remotely close to what their Democratic counterparts say.
Right-wingers have to resort to posting of rando leftwingers calling for violence. Meanwhile, Trump's top advisors like Steve Bannon call for political executions.
During the George Floyd protest, a Minneapolis police station that was shot at. Left leaning demonstrators were blamed for it, but the actual shooter was a right wing extremist. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
The Charlie Kirk shooting person of interest sure looks like a far right person.
It's irresponsible for Republicans to make explicit claims about the shooter until he is apprehended and his background information is released.
Steven Carrillo, another boogaloo boi, pleaded guilty to murdering a San Francisco police officer at a BLM protest in 2020.
He had posted on Facebook about wanting to start an anti-government revolution. The right loves pretending to be the left. apnews.com/article/us-air…
3/ For years, QAnon and its spinoffs have painted Democrats as part of a secret pedophile cabal. Yet the most documented religious abuse scandals happen within conservative religious denominations.
Data shows 67% of politicians accused of child sex crimes are Republicans.
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/…