There is nothing more disgraceful than watching “conservatives” play the victim card.
“I was too dumb to know the virus was real - don’t shame me.”
“I didn’t know Trump was a con-man, don’t blame me.”
The same people that demonized others are now the ‘victims’ themselves.
The same people who blamed black & brown people for being poor.
“Pick yourself up by your own bootstraps”
“This is America, there’s no excuse.”
“You’re lazy, undisciplined, uneducated - you chose to be this way”
Same people are now playing the victims.
Too ignorant to follow basic science. Too cowardly to defend their vulgar comments. Too lazy to find a job in a different industry. Too undisciplined to kick their opioid addiction.
Too proud to make amends they blame everyone but themselves, too blind to see their own hypocrisy
The ‘conservative victim’ mentality is nothing more than a tantrum. It offers no ideas, no alternative, no vision.
It is a construct defined by defeatism. Hopelessness. Retreat.
It has nothing but anger and entitlement to fuel it. It is the battle cry of the lost cause.
The ‘conservative victim’ is a hypocrite. Incapable of the self-reliance it professes it crawls under the rock of anger to protect itself.
It seeks protection in the herd of victims decrying its slights: Political correctness! Cancel culture! Critical Race Theory!
Like all victims, the ‘conservative victim’ isn’t even trying anymore. It is already defeated, so it seeks to tear everything down with it - “I’ll take my marbles and go home!”
Always the critic, never trying to solve its problems “victim” becomes its identity.
“The more of a victim I am, the more American I am!”, the ‘conservative victim’ cries out.
“The less responsibility I take, the more patriotic I am.”
“The more ignorant I choose to currently be, the greater the mythology of the past I can believe.”
Hypocrisy.
Shamelessness.
What we are witnessing today is the bastardization of conservatism by a professional class of victims.
It’s the hollowing out of the American character and replacing it with screaming eagles, oversized flags and gun fetishism because it’s so weak it thinks that’s strength.
Do not fear the ‘conservative victim’. Underneath the bluster, racism, taunting, scheming and attacks - All it has is fear.
Understand it for what it is and it starts to unravel.
Stand up to it. Push back on it. Hit the bully in the nose.
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If you’re interested in understanding why the defeat of Donald Trump marked the ‘end of the beginning’ do yourself a favor and listen to this remarkable discussion between @RonBrownstein & @brianstelter on @ReliableSources This is a master class on understanding America
We are entering a prolonged period of what I call “Two decades of fire” where our politics will be defined by increasing violence, intransigence and zero-sum extremism. It is all undergirded by demographic change - those that fear it and those that welcome it.
The next twenty years will witness the transformation of America from a white majority country to a non-white majority country.This is unprecedented in our 250 year history and will challenge the very notion of American identity.Can America be America if it isnt a white country?
The defeat of southerners in the Confederacy is an apt comparison. Trumpism is the cult of losers - of the defeated, of blame. The danger is it seeks a mythical past & nationalist future (The South shall rise again). Our refusal to eviscerate it for the sake of Union sowed
The seeds of Jim Crow, segregation, and a form of systematic racism that has endured to this day. Abraham Lincoln offered a new nation “With malice towards none and charity for all...”. His goal was the preservation of Union- I’m not sure a Union built with
This racism and white supremacy should be tolerated. My Republicanism has always been more rooted in the ideology of Thaddeus Stevens (radical Republicanism) than Lincoln though I understand the pragmatism.
Donald Trumps campaign is hemorrhaging. His organization is in disarray. The battleground map is expanding. We can see the whites of their eyes. The once reliable GOP base has said enough is enough to Trump:
IN PA: Biden leads 65+ voters 54-42; he has 8% of GOP support; he leads college ed white voters 57-38; he leads Ind 59-34; he leads women 61-35; & he is 1 pt behind Trump among men. Biden has made inroads in suburban and exurban counties throughout the state that Trump swept.
IN AZ: Biden is leading Trump 49-41; Biden leads seniors 48-47 - Trump won them by 13 points in 2016; Biden has 6%+ of GOP support; Biden leads Ind 53-28 - Trump won them by 3 points in 2016. Biden leads college ed white voters 46-45 - Trump won them by 6 points in 2016.
A quick note on Latino voters: Latinos are a notoriously late deciding vote. We are also challenging to poll because sample sizes often aren’t big enough to accurately reflect voter sentiment in baseline polls. The FL polling is instructive but needs to be considered cautiously
Any poll looking at Hispanic voters in Florida with a sample size <200 in a state as diverse as Florida can’t accurately gauge sentiment. Hispanics are 18% of the statewide vote, Cubans are about 1/3rd, Puerto Rican’s about 1/3rd and the remaining is other South & Central Am’s.
That means, if properly weighted, the sample sizes of Cubans & Puerto Rican’s in the poll had sample sizes of 60 people or so - not a good look at all. Having said that I & others who specialize here, have been very vocal about warning signs with the Latino vote all year
Lots of polls today. Quick thread on new Quinnipiac poll:
At the moment Trump is losing. On job approval, on coronavirus response, on making people feel safe in their communities, and most of all, head to head with Joe Biden.
15% of Republicans say the country is *worse* off than 4 years ago and among Independents that’s 60-36. Trump is losing 65+ and college ed white voters in approval on the economy, Covid, overall job approval.
The trends over the last 5 months have been that voter views on the pandemic & overall job approval are more strongly connected to who the voter will likely break for in the GE than their economic views - which is the only area that Trump still barely has an edge over Biden on
THREAD:
Trump & QANON: A new danger to America.Republicans have taken up the QAnon conspiracy that a “deep state” is plotting against them. 18 GOP HOUSE CANDIDATES who have received the party’s nomination have drunk the kool-aid as well.
Many have taken OATHS to the conspiracy.
The majority of those 18 candidates running are competing in heavily Democratic House districts. But this list of QAnon-esque candidates is only likely to grow.
There are 11 more candidates STILL running in primaries who are supporters of the conspiracy.
The candidate most likely to win a House seat is @mtgreenee in Georgia’s 14th. Marjorie Greene is outspoken of her support for QAnon. She has also made racist & Islamaphobic comments.