DEMOCRATS: The two worst things to happen in the last year were the Coronavirus outbreak and the January 6th insurrection
REPUBLICANS: Our current mission is to furiously fight all of your efforts to ensure that they don’t happen again
GOP: Clearly, the worst thing to happen in the last year is the inescapable trend of woke public school teachers screaming at white children & calling them racists
DEMS: Are you completely sure that is happening
GOP: Let’s yell about it at school board meetings until we’re sure
GOP: We are also deeply concerned with the Democrats’ mission to force masks & vaccines on us, which is part a sinister plot for the Deep State to control us
DEMS: Virtually all new COVID patients are unvaccinated
GOP: I have no choice but to conclude the hospitals are lying
GOP: This is a very common problem: a guy with the virus gets stabbed by a BLM activist in the nightly riots, dies at the hospital, and it’s included with the COVID statistics
DEMS: On what planet is that even
GOP: You’d know this if you listened to scholars like Alex Berenson
GOP: My point is, the Democrats are trying to clamp down on our civil rights while BLM & Antifa rioters & looters roam free
DEMS: What civil rights
GOP: The right to refuse vaccines for childish reasons the right to interfere with the certification of Presidents we don’t like
GOP: Well, it’s been fun, but it’s time to amplify the racial grievances for the next year or so until we sweep the 2022 midterms
DEMS: That seems irresponsible
GOP: You mean like BLM and Antifa rioting & looting were irresponsible?
DEMS: Never mind
GOP: What about CRT? HUH?!
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The problem here is that it’s impossible to talk with a Trump supporter for longer than 30 seconds without becoming completely exasperated dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
I know this is the Daily Mail, and therefore we have no idea what the View is planning to do. But our two political parties are now defined as Sanity vs. A Firehose of Horseshit, and one wonders what would be gained by balancing the four voices of sanity with a new firehose.
There was much about Meghan McCain I found infuriating & exhausting (search “dreamweasel meghan” for receipts), but her saving grace was that she saw Donald Trump for who he was.
If you’re pro-Trump, your perspective is simply not grounded in any kind of reality.
The only people who truly believe the January 6 investigation needs to be “bipartisan” are the ones who wanted the January 6 insurrection to succeed washingtonpost.com/politics/pelos…
That’s the real ideological divide.
It isn’t “Was Trump responsible for the deadly attack?” We all know that is true.
It’s “Was Trump justified in his interference with the certification of Biden as President?”
Like it or not, the GOP overwhlemingly believes that he was.
I share with you my thoughts at the time, which I concede have not aged as well as I’d hoped.
I had momentarily forgotten that there is no “mainstream” in American politics anymore. We have committed liberals, committed conservatives, and people who simply DGAF about politics.
1. The Cult of Trump is still very much alive and well 2. Your hypothetical scenario would be strengthened with the inclusion of an actual candidate who could beat Trump in an upcoming Republican primary 3. And no, the “shrug” emoji is not a valid substitute
I’m not trying to piss you off, but I am trying to illustrate how thoroughly the Republican mainstream is still very much in thrall of Trump. They don’t see things the same way we do.
Anyone who still supports Trump in 2021 believes one of the following things:
1. Trump won the election 2. 1/6 was not a violent insurrection 3. The violence on 1/6 was Antifa’s fault 4. Even if none of the first three are true, they’re okay with it because Democrats are worse
R: YOU PUSSIFIED LEFTISTS CAN’T MAKE ME WEAR A MASK! THE PLANDEMIC IS A HOAX! IT’S NO WORSE THAN THE FLU! I WILL NOT BE BRAINWASHED BY THE DEEP STATE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! LIARS! LIARS! LIARS!
CDC: How do we get these people to take the vaccine
NRO: Maybe you should be nicer to them
ERICKSON: First Dr. Fauci said we didn’t need to wear masks, & LATER he said we did! How are people who refuse to listen to the CDC in any sort of good faith supposed to know who to trust?
D: That was over a year ago
E: AND IF GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL, THEN WHY IS IT COLD OUTSIDE
R: Clearly it is in your best interest to tailor your pro-vaccine message to reach as many of us as possible, whereas it is in our best interest to stick our fingers in our figurative ears and scream “FAKE NEWS!”
Listen to the backlash against Dr. Fauci if you seriously think there’s a better technique for Telling Trumpers What They Don’t Want to Hear
As a counterexample, remember that Trump was an early advocate of hyroxycholoquine, a malaria medication that was only experimental in the treatment of the Coronavirus. The CDC never endorsed it (and warned of risks), but MAGAts were bullish because it was fully backed by Trump.
GOP: Just for that, we’ll vote for Trump even harder
DEMS: But
NYT: Stop being so condescending, Democrats
TRUMP: (says or does something insane)
There was a Politico article last year which consisted of interviews with multiple Trump supporters in attendance at a Michigan gun show; it featured numerous permutations of this same observation: ⬇️