So two out of ten Republicans whole heartily support the crimes they know he committed.
2 out of 10 in the GOP support Trump over National Security and Democracy.
The next time someone asks me why I can’t stand to be around any MAGA person, this will be my first answer.
Yes. This is the power of Trump’s populism. It’s astounding that coastal Americans still don’t understand the suffering Middle Americans are going though that continue to lead to these extreme candidates on the right, but here we are.
Micheal Moore was right.
A lot of conservatives aren’t playing by the same rule book. They don’t care that Trump committed crimes because they only care that he achieves their desires goals. All the outrage and confusion when conservatives support terrible people is missing the point. They aren’t hypocritical when they try to call out others, because they don’t really care that someone else committed a crime. They only care that they win.
It’s not a contradiction to them when they cry about pedophiles and then vote for one. Crying about pedophiles was just a tactic to try and gain power and further their goals.
It’s almost like we should never, ever trust the word of a conservative. Never.
They think that they can create an authoritative system and rules that will bring people in line and create one nation under their values (while disregarding the rules of the current system).
They know that it won’t be supported by everyone, but they assume that the problems will come mainly from the groups they want to purge anyways. That’s why they get so pissed off when they see “members of their group” supporting the groups they hate and have shit like “race traitor” in their vocabulary. They think there’s a brotherhood that doesn’t really exist between people who look similar.
They think that they can create an authoritative system and rules that will bring people in line
Sometimes it just seems that they were raised on authoritative media (including the TV news and radio they admire). First, the Levant stories about voices from the sky and burning bushes. Then Trump is famous for his TV personality of “you’re fired!” commandments. Rick Roderick’s 1990’s descriptions help me with the words: “And on a Freudian account, it’s not accidental that that’s the time you reach out for large and invisible fathers to protect you… and mothers. And you know what, that’s elegant suspicion. It is not an argument; it’s an elegant suspicion. In fact when you look at the iconic significance of churches, you know the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, the family values stuff, you know… I mean, I hate to sound cynical, but as Freud says, they whole thing is so patently infantile. So obviously infantile, that to anyone with the love of humanity it’s just sad to think that most people will never rise above this view of life.”
So here’s my perspective on that: In 1954 “they” tied “one nation under god” together. So to me, if your don’t worship their god, then you’re not part of their nation. It gets even more fucked up when its scrutinized what they actually worship in real world practice.
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And let’s be really clear - the GOP being the party o crime isn’t a new thing. Nixon got elected by interfering with US negotiations in Vietnam. Got pardoned through GOP bullshit too. Reagan got caught dead to rights on Iran Contra, but Bill fucking Barr came along and made sure there were no consequences for him OR George Bush. Finally, Bush’s kid invaded an entire country based on lies. And there’s never any consequences. They’re simply devolving into pettier bullshit to crime about.
Party over Country for Republicans. Always has been.
It goes deeper than that imho.
They are OK with any level of criminality, as long as it’s done to people they don’t like and by default, they consider everyone outside their usually very small ingroups as people they don’t like.
It’s only when it happens to them directly, they want retribution against whomever they think slighted them. They don’t care about justice and finding out who actually slighting them, they are entirely reactionary and will rather have someone they think did the crime punished ASAP, with extreme prejudice, than actual justice where we figure out whomever did the crime and punish them appropriately.
It’s not about party, it’s about the criminality itself.
They like the criminality because they want to be able to do that too.
There have been several instances in my life where in a religious debate, specifically right wing Christians would dead seriously use the line “if there is no god, what is keeping you from murdering, raping and stealing?”, something left wing Christians would never even consider thinking or saying.
For me and everyone who isn’t a fucking narcissistic sociopath, the answer to that would be "I killed and raped everyone I want to kill, nobody, and stole what I want to steal, nothing.
To them, it’s a laundry list of people and things and they are fully aware there is no god and what is holding them back from doing these things is society and “the libs”.
to no one’s surprise. republicans are traitors.
The only thing that surprises me is that this fact surprises anyone.
If you just take a second to think, there’s nothing to be surprised about. They think Trump is David and “the system” (whatever it is, Joe Biden and pizzagate) is Goliath.
If say Bernie Sanders also broke the law but in his supporters’ minds was morally right, they wouldn’t abandon him.
And I’m not saying Trump isn’t a piece of shit, he clearly is. But his supporters are brainwashed to a degree that you could describe as terminal so they obviously think he’s right and there even isn’t a moral quandary nor double standard in their train of thought.
If say Bernie Sanders also broke the law but in his supporters’ minds was morally right, they wouldn’t abandon him.
To add to this, this literally happened in 1963 and is referenced as one of his biggest selling points.
