Enough is enough. I’m getting sick of hearing about how the entire GOP, incumbents and voters alike are some kind of innocent hostages to a political terrorist like Traitor Tot. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Look, Traitor Tot isn’t some sort of Mephistophelean guru, nor is he some overpowering political figure. What Donald Trump is is a loud, racist, foul mouth *sshole. But he isn’t the Republican party. He never has been, and he never will be.
It’s not like the GOP and its voters don’t have other choices. Forget about brainless Trump sycophants like Ron Pissantis, they have longtime, moderate, thoughtful conservatives like Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, and Asa Hutchinson to choose from if they want to right the ship. And if they want to elect another eastern seaboard loudmouth *sshole, then Chris Christie is in the race, and at least he has 12 functioning brain cells.
It’s not like the GOP has no other path. And by that I mean both the RNC and the incumbent GOP caucus, as well as the GOP electorate. Let’s be clear here, shall we. The GOP, both voters as well as the party has always had other alternatives to His Lowness. All the way back to 2016, when they could have excluded him from the primaries for his anti-Semitic, anti-woman, anti immigrant positions. It was their primaries, they could simply have refused to put his name on the ballot. They chose not to, and Republican voters decided to forgive the pig on two cloven hooves for all of his sins.
Because it turns out that they, both the party and the voters, liked the foul filth he was selling. Democracy flourishes with two equal parties, one from each side, coming to the middle to move forward with the peoples business.
But starting with the election of the nation’s first African American President, Barack Obama, the GOP stopped being a functional political party of give and take, and became a purely obstructionist party instead. Which suited them just fine. After all, they were so obsolete that they could no longer win an election based on ideas and ideology.
Trump steeped forward and used his hateful, racist, sexist ideology to give the GOP base what they wanted. And thanks to surgical help from Vlad the Imp, and The Internet Agency, Trump won in 2015. But make no mistake, it was the majority of GOP voters who took to the polls in 2016 to deliver the verdict to Trump. Aging, scared, lower class middle white Evangelical voters desperate to turn the clock back 60 years to a time when they were comfortable.
The GOP and its voters could kick Trump to the curb today. Except they won’t. Because the current day GOP base is exactly what it was seven years ago. Scared, lower education and income, middle age and beyond, racist white Evangelical voters. And they like what Trump is selling. And for GOP candidates and incumbents, the Trump train is the fount from which all fundraising flows. They have sold their souls for short term gains.
Let’s be clear. Trump is unelectable in a general election, but he’s all the GOP has. They’re conveniently forgetting that it was everybody else in 2018 that rode the Democrats to a 40 seat flip in the House, and sent Trump packing in 2020. And when he goes down in 2024, and takes the GOP and the RNC with him, they’ll have nobody but themselves to blame.
They are counting on gerrymandering; election fraud; election interference; outside interference in the election; and when all else fails, simply proclaim yourself the winner and DARE your opponent to do something about it.
Being a MAGA fascist means never having to say you’re sorry.
Exactly right, Murph. They chose this, in the beginning and continue to do so.
Where’s the FB tab, so I can RE-POST?
Is Yahoo blocking the RE-POST YABS???
I disagree Murph-former guy IS today’s gop. More to the point, he is the logical result of 40+ years of gathering every intolerant, racist, misogynist, ignorant p.o.s. possible. Going after the dixie-crats and evang xtians wholeheartedly, as they have been all these decades, means former guy was inevitable.
Helsinki? Or is it Oslo or Copenhagen?? Was going to reference Diehard but I need to pop two more fish oils 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ or is it stockholm??? Fudge… hoisted by my own petard.
Stockholm, Stockholm Syndrome. This term was first used by the media in 1973 when four hostages were taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. The hostages defended their captors after being released and would not agree to testify in court against them. It was noted that in this case, however, the police were perceived to have acted with little care for the hostages’ safety, providing an alternative reason for their unwillingness to testify. Stockholm syndrome is paradoxical because the sympathetic sentiments that captives feel towards their captors are the opposite of the fear and disdain which an onlooker might feel towards the captors.
There are four key components that characterize Stockholm syndrome:
A hostage’s development of positive feelings towards the captor
No previous relationship between hostage and captor
A refusal by hostages to cooperate with police and other government authorities
A hostage’s belief in the humanity of the captor, ceasing to perceive them as a threat, when the victim holds the same values as the aggressor
Trump would not have won that election had it not been for the Electoral College which should have been abolished a century ago. If the winner of the popular vote would win the election, we would have had Hillary Clinton who would have been an excellent president.
He could win if there is a third party candidate – or, worse, two third party candidates.