Late to comment but read and have been thinking about this piece. I've been considering this for a while too because it's disturbing to me. I'm not sure the exact reason for embracing vice as they have. I can see JVL's Conservative Inc response playing out "Liberal elites have cried wolf so many times over the years that Republican voter…
Late to comment but read and have been thinking about this piece. I've been considering this for a while too because it's disturbing to me. I'm not sure the exact reason for embracing vice as they have. I can see JVL's Conservative Inc response playing out "Liberal elites have cried wolf so many times over the years that Republican voters no longer believe any allegations of bad behavior." But I wonder if they are just trying to be the opposite of anything and everything traditional politics used to be - where good character was expected and if it fell short there were consequences. Who wouldn't want to live in a consequence-free world? Well me and people around me, because we still believe in right and wrong, decency, and no one being above the law, but MAGA is seeking to build a consequence-free world because their corrupt leader needs it and so far has attained it for himself. Maybe some Republicans were reluctant at first to embrace it but seeing how it has worked for Trump, have climbed on board. That, and wanting to be the opposite of traditional liberal values as a backlash to social progress I suppose. "Stick it to the Libs."
Late to comment but read and have been thinking about this piece. I've been considering this for a while too because it's disturbing to me. I'm not sure the exact reason for embracing vice as they have. I can see JVL's Conservative Inc response playing out "Liberal elites have cried wolf so many times over the years that Republican voters no longer believe any allegations of bad behavior." But I wonder if they are just trying to be the opposite of anything and everything traditional politics used to be - where good character was expected and if it fell short there were consequences. Who wouldn't want to live in a consequence-free world? Well me and people around me, because we still believe in right and wrong, decency, and no one being above the law, but MAGA is seeking to build a consequence-free world because their corrupt leader needs it and so far has attained it for himself. Maybe some Republicans were reluctant at first to embrace it but seeing how it has worked for Trump, have climbed on board. That, and wanting to be the opposite of traditional liberal values as a backlash to social progress I suppose. "Stick it to the Libs."