To understand Fox News and the modern Republican Party, you have to understand professional wrestling and the concepts of "kayfabe" and "shoot."
What Fox airs is kayfabe, or performance. Those texts from hosts to the White House on January 6th were "shoot" and behind the curtain
What Fox airs is kayfabe, or performance. Those texts from hosts to the White House on January 6th were "shoot" and behind the curtain
There's a whole range of people in the GOP and on the Right in this mess of a crisis. Some of them are true believers and ideologues looking to bring the system down ala Steve Bannon.
A lot of the others are either inbetween or just using it as a grift or to spur ratings.
A lot of the others are either inbetween or just using it as a grift or to spur ratings.
This moment of GOP/Right Wing radicalism is bizarre and confusing because it's riddled through with layers of belief, conviction, actual ideology, and people looking to make a buck.
It's a constantly evolving thing. People move from one extreme to another.
It's a constantly evolving thing. People move from one extreme to another.
The looming question in this political crisis is whether a lot of people in the Republican Party and base will throw in their lot with ideologues who want to use violence and realize an authoritarian system.
It's a matter of whether the grifters and LARPers will get on board.
It's a matter of whether the grifters and LARPers will get on board.
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