We thought the same thing with Bush and the reublicans in his day, and then the Tea party happened. We thought it again with the Tea Party. Then Trump happened. I think the tiki torch guys from Charlottesville are more likely to take over the party than to slink back into the shadows.
Republican politicians aren’t leading their base into the crazy, they are holding the crazy back from the rest of us.
You think this is “holding back”? We have death camps in Florida. We have people, citizens even, getting deported to countries they aren’t citizens of, or have never lived in. Fuck, my guy, it sure could get worse, but they’re not holding back very much, are they.
Uhhh. No. They think the crazies are useful idiots so they platform them and use them to get more power. Then they only disavow if it becomes politically expedient to do so.
So, not “holding back” so much as “actively garnering support for until it isn’t valuable to do so any more”
Thing is each time the sane ones jumped ship leaving room for crazier and crazier leadership. In the meantime the ones that left keep pulling the other side further right.
We thought the same thing with Bush and the reublicans in his day, and then the Tea party happened. We thought it again with the Tea Party. Then Trump happened. I think the tiki torch guys from Charlottesville are more likely to take over the party than to slink back into the shadows.
Republican politicians aren’t leading their base into the crazy, they are holding the crazy back from the rest of us.
You think this is “holding back”? We have death camps in Florida. We have people, citizens even, getting deported to countries they aren’t citizens of, or have never lived in. Fuck, my guy, it sure could get worse, but they’re not holding back very much, are they.
Uhhh. No. They think the crazies are useful idiots so they platform them and use them to get more power. Then they only disavow if it becomes politically expedient to do so.
So, not “holding back” so much as “actively garnering support for until it isn’t valuable to do so any more”
Thing is each time the sane ones jumped ship leaving room for crazier and crazier leadership. In the meantime the ones that left keep pulling the other side further right.
Those asshats are not from Charlottesville. They invaded it.
True, my apologies to Charlottesville and VA.