1) I’m repeating here what I wrote last week about the Morning Shots article about Liz Cheney. It’s still all true:
For the life of me, I can’t understand the reasoning of people like Romney or Christie. Do they really think that the GOP base will come crawling back to them if Trump loses? Don’t they realize that, should …
1) I’m repeating here what I wrote last week about the Morning Shots article about Liz Cheney. It’s still all true:
For the life of me, I can’t understand the reasoning of people like Romney or Christie. Do they really think that the GOP base will come crawling back to them if Trump loses? Don’t they realize that, should Trump lose, the GOP base will blame them (right after they get through blaming Dominion, Italian space lasers, the media, illegal aliens voting, and demonic Democrats) because they wouldn’t ride the Trump train? Because you know that Trump won’t take any blame and you know that his cult will follow whatever he says and you know he’ll blame them. They won’t be heroes, they’ll be goats.
And what’s worse is if their inaction contributes to Trump winning. Then they’ll be worse than whatever is worse than goats. And that will apply not just to them, but to the whole country.
So a party that has been reveling in its grievances and hate and flat-Eartherism for at least the last 15 years is suddenly going to do some soul searching and realize the errors of their ways just because someone like Romney is pointing it out to them? Color me skeptical.
2) “MAGA lunatics have hijacked the party and driven it into a ditch. They only reason they have any national political viability is because they’ve convinced a critical mass of longtime Republican normies to keep their heads down and keep being good team players.” I disagree with this assessment. It’s not because the “normies” kept their heads down. The reason that the MAGA lunatics have been able to hijack the party is that the party is now largely made up of lunatics.
Personally I think it started with Newt Gingrich back in the 1990's (although Bush (41) kind of started it with his Willie Horton ads). Newt's take-no-prisoners attitude combined with the dulcet tones of Rush Limbaugh started the grievance party that used to be known as the Republican Party. If you watched conservative media as I did in the aughts you could see the degradation of the conversation as the decade went on. And it really started accelerating (downward) when the Democrats had the audacity to nominate someone that (according to Giuliani) "doesn't love the country the way the rest of us do". I can't say that I predicted something as bad as Trump, but I did feel that something bad was going to happen when you heard all of the conspiracy theories and the almost complete lack of logic coming first from Limbaugh and Fox and then from the Republican politicians.
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1) I’m repeating here what I wrote last week about the Morning Shots article about Liz Cheney. It’s still all true:
For the life of me, I can’t understand the reasoning of people like Romney or Christie. Do they really think that the GOP base will come crawling back to them if Trump loses? Don’t they realize that, should Trump lose, the GOP base will blame them (right after they get through blaming Dominion, Italian space lasers, the media, illegal aliens voting, and demonic Democrats) because they wouldn’t ride the Trump train? Because you know that Trump won’t take any blame and you know that his cult will follow whatever he says and you know he’ll blame them. They won’t be heroes, they’ll be goats.
And what’s worse is if their inaction contributes to Trump winning. Then they’ll be worse than whatever is worse than goats. And that will apply not just to them, but to the whole country.
So a party that has been reveling in its grievances and hate and flat-Eartherism for at least the last 15 years is suddenly going to do some soul searching and realize the errors of their ways just because someone like Romney is pointing it out to them? Color me skeptical.
2) “MAGA lunatics have hijacked the party and driven it into a ditch. They only reason they have any national political viability is because they’ve convinced a critical mass of longtime Republican normies to keep their heads down and keep being good team players.” I disagree with this assessment. It’s not because the “normies” kept their heads down. The reason that the MAGA lunatics have been able to hijack the party is that the party is now largely made up of lunatics.
Wonderful! Thank you, particularly for pointing out that this has been going on for at least the last 15 years.
Personally I think it started with Newt Gingrich back in the 1990's (although Bush (41) kind of started it with his Willie Horton ads). Newt's take-no-prisoners attitude combined with the dulcet tones of Rush Limbaugh started the grievance party that used to be known as the Republican Party. If you watched conservative media as I did in the aughts you could see the degradation of the conversation as the decade went on. And it really started accelerating (downward) when the Democrats had the audacity to nominate someone that (according to Giuliani) "doesn't love the country the way the rest of us do". I can't say that I predicted something as bad as Trump, but I did feel that something bad was going to happen when you heard all of the conspiracy theories and the almost complete lack of logic coming first from Limbaugh and Fox and then from the Republican politicians.