And as the madness gets worse during this pandemic, the real reason is all the more clear.
As Tom Sullivan notes at Hullabaloo:
No. It is not to save the country except for themselves. It is because they think they are losing their country and Trump is the only Republican who can save it for them, Limbaugh explained.
But it is also because Trump’s wanton bigotry, dishonesty and viciousness liberate them to wallow in their own. Like a medieval pope, he is selling a plenary indulgence. Go, and sin some more, says Trump in red letters held upside down and backwards. All it cost them is the surrender of whatever withered moral authority the movement had remaining...
As shared by this photo making the rounds on Twitter:
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| Would love to find out who originated this. |
For all the worship of Saint Ronnie, for all the early passion for Dubya in a post-911 global war, the Republican voting base still expresses disappointment that neither "savior" figure went far enough into douchebaggery to become the "hero" the Far Right wanted.
trump is different. Not only is he an openly vile and vulgar life form, he constantly tweets to his fanbase to indulge in his not-so-private vices as well.
And a lot of them take him up on that offer.
Look at every Angry White Guy. Look at every Angry White Woman. Look at the Karens having meltdowns. Look at the maskless wingnuts throwing tantrums along with everything else when they're asked to wear a mask to protect other people.
All of them have a License to Asshole, signed by trump and passed around by a gleeful Republican Party wanting to "own the libs" forever.
This is where blind rage has led us.
It's up to the rest of us to call this bad behavior for what it is and vote these bastards out. For the LOVE OF DECENCY as well as GOD, we need to vote them out.
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I think it was Driftglass who described it as an old deal between the Pig People and the Republicans, wherein the Republicans appealed to their racism in the primary, but once elected, only fed them maintenance doses of it while enacting their real agenda of tax cuts and deregulation for their paymasters.
Then Fergus had the genius idea of offering them a straight geeze of the uncut product, and sure enough, now they worship him like junkies worship their man.
The non-genius part of Fergus' idea, though, was the failure to ask himself why no other Republican had ever thought it was a good and workable plan, because in Fergus' mind (if you can really call it that) those other Republicans were just losers who didn't have anything like his brilliance or ruthlessness.
Well, it turns out to be a microcosm of the overall strategic blunder the right made when they invited all of our bigots and imbeciles into their party after the passage of the civil rights laws: they were gonna build a permanent majority out of them, and they would always be able to control them with god, guns, and gays.
How did that work out for them, now that they find themselves duty bound to kiss Fergus' disgusting (even to them) ass while he turns everything he touches to shit, including their party?
And those Pig People? The ones who got Fergus more Republican primary votes than anyone in history, despite more than a dozen less odious choices?
They fully run the Republican show now, and tacticians like McConnell are scared shitless of them.
And here's the real thing: those Pig People deserve to be represented in their government like everyone else. Of course they do. I just want their representation to be proportional to their actual numbers.
America 30% in the shitter is at least something we can work with, while its wholesale destruction in the service of bigotry and imbecility is just not.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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