The GOP has been a party of organized destruction of the commonwealth for more than 50 years, completely consciously and intentionally.
Operatives jumping ship now have a simple goal to survive to keep wrecking the commonwealth in pursuit of personal profit under the corrupt ideology that manifested Trump, and their intention is to survive to wreck for another day.
Any of them claiming to be too stupid or misinformed to be culpable for the travesty that is the GOP are at best useless idiots and more likely to dangerously insane, while those aware of the monstrosity they've been building and nurturing will bring their appetites for destruction wherever they go.
Do not offer acceptance. Let them earn it, and throw down as many challenges as possible to their objective to reach a lifeboat.
According to their own ideology, you risk losing nothing and can only gain their respect, however meaningless.
But of those I’m sure you could break them down further. It’s not a monolithic bloc.
And actually - I disagree with the premise, I think Trump ran as an old school Democrat, and people who voted for him equally if not more so rejected the conservative status quo of the past 30 years.
2. In some sense I might say where we’re at is a retreat of conservative leadership. No shining city on a hill, no American exceptionalism. Elitism without the elite, without the personal responsibility. I think part of the problem with America is the absence of optimism usually associated with Conservatives.
3. But yeah, it’s interesting you seem to get all the negative impacts of a Republican presidency with none of the positive ones.
If Trump actually becomes dictator I still might not revise that, since again: none of this would have happened without the damage Bush did.
I also have a lower opinion of Clinton these days. I think he just got handed the most “easy mode” presidency since WWII. A brick could have had a great presidency in the 90s.
The greatest mistake of Bush Sr and Clinton was not going into the former USSR with a Marshall plan rebuild. Instead we let it languish and be looted by “shock doctrine” creeps and then looted again by home grown creeps. If we’d done that Russia might be like Germany and Japan.
Obama was IMO a better smarter less corrupt Clinton. Had he been elected in 1992 he would have been amazing. His problem was that he was elected in 2008 and governed like it was 1992. He was handed the keys to a burning house which he then remodeled with a nice new bathroom and kitchen.
~ Benjamin Franklin, Closing Speech at the Constitutional Convention (1787)
If in the future you encounter many people mentioning the qualities of a thing, it might be a good idea to consider the wisdom of the crowd.
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dragonwriter•3mo ago
If he could keep fooling roughly half the population, his support would be near constant, which isn’t what the actual evidence shows.