Wow. It is hard to believe, but they are all as dumb as Trump. Couldn't they have placed just one candidate with an IQ over 90? I mean, just for a change?
Still, for a party that has spent years ignoring or denying the biggest threat to our planet’s future, tonight’s responses were actually, almost, a little bit refreshing.
setting the bar so low that any response besides outright hostility as refreshing, is not refreshing.
Absolutely wild. I was prepared for the pettiness and the at best thinly-veiled white supremacy. But the number of GOP candidates in this article that straight up assaulted other GOP members shocked me. I still am flabbergasted at the state of American politics
From the outside looking in, it all seems a bit bonkers. Which is especially scary cause Canadian politics tends to follow y’all’s political trends on a 5-7 year delay.
But yeah, the current state of the Republican party is absolutely the king of the heap in terms of crazy bullshit
In early June, roughly 250 Michiganders filed into a windowless banquet hall for the Macomb County GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner. The dining tables were decorated with white tablecloths, tiny American flags, and famous Lincoln quotes, while the silent auction display off to the side featured Trump Wine, a cardboard cutout of Donald and Melania, and 30 mm rounds the size of a baby’s torso that had “Jesus is Lord!” etched into the shells.
I really find that last bit horrifying. Jebus is lord, child.
Once upon a time, Republican leadership were smart but evil people who fed lies to their base but understood that they were lying. Since they weren't actually delusional, they could choose the most politically useful lies and abandon the ones that didn't poll well.
Enough people believed their lies that the new generation of Republicans are True Believers. They've lost the ability to tailor their message to the political climate because it's no longer seen as just a bunch of crap to please the base, but TRUTH. Except that it's not actually true, so their policies fail.
This is the inevitable result of governing through falsehood. Objective reality can not be gaslit, and abandoning it never works out well long-term.
Once upon a time the GOP believed in things. Go look at Bob Dole’s 1996 platform for his campaign and you will see they believed in something. Now they are purely reactionary.
Once some of them did. But Nixon didn’t believe in Jack shit. Nixon would’ve ran as a fucking communist if it was what was best for his chances. Same for Reagan. Then you’ve got Goldwater who believed in things, just not good things.
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