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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFor Trump’s Congressional Backers, Hell Is Empty, and All the Demons Are Here
Note: author is s NeverTrump Republican.
http://heatst.com/politics/for-trumps-congressional-backers-hell-is-empty-and-all-the-demons-are-here/
Republican supporters and endorsers of Trump are in political peril in every direction. Why? Whether Trump wins or loses, Republican Members of the House and Senate arent pure enough for the seething mass of nihilist rage monsters Trumps Republican Party has become.
At the same time, youre smeared with the fetid stench of Trumps catalog of voter-repellent pathologies. Watch how the Democrats and the media will happily remind Hispanics, African Americans, college-educated voters, women, young voters, and most higher mammals how you decided to stand with Trump Republicanism.
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Theyre not interested in reform, conservative or otherwise. Theyre interested in revanchist fantasies, where the educated and the ethnic are punished for success, or for the mere desire to live the American Dream. They (and their hermetic media) pretend this is based on a chain of outrages and insufficiencies on your part, but its really just their desire to burn down the world to finally say, See? I did SOMETHING. I showed THEM.
Do you think, as so many members in House leadership confidently assert, that youll Make Trump the Houses puppet if hes elected? You forgot that Trumps fifth-column in the House will be there to sabotage exiting leadership from January 22nd on. Lets be honest: your record of moral courage and political strength viz Trump inspires exactly zero confidence that youd resist Trumps excesses in the Oval Office for a hot second.
The rich irony for Republicans covered in Trumps political ichor is this: Almost every day he gives you a reason to say, No more. Almost every day he says or does something only his base adores, but that poisons our future, and your electoral prospects in the years to come. If grab them by the pussy isnt enough to repulse you and give you a clean, sane exit from the Trump nightmare, I cant help you.
At the same time, youre smeared with the fetid stench of Trumps catalog of voter-repellent pathologies. Watch how the Democrats and the media will happily remind Hispanics, African Americans, college-educated voters, women, young voters, and most higher mammals how you decided to stand with Trump Republicanism.
...
Theyre not interested in reform, conservative or otherwise. Theyre interested in revanchist fantasies, where the educated and the ethnic are punished for success, or for the mere desire to live the American Dream. They (and their hermetic media) pretend this is based on a chain of outrages and insufficiencies on your part, but its really just their desire to burn down the world to finally say, See? I did SOMETHING. I showed THEM.
Do you think, as so many members in House leadership confidently assert, that youll Make Trump the Houses puppet if hes elected? You forgot that Trumps fifth-column in the House will be there to sabotage exiting leadership from January 22nd on. Lets be honest: your record of moral courage and political strength viz Trump inspires exactly zero confidence that youd resist Trumps excesses in the Oval Office for a hot second.
The rich irony for Republicans covered in Trumps political ichor is this: Almost every day he gives you a reason to say, No more. Almost every day he says or does something only his base adores, but that poisons our future, and your electoral prospects in the years to come. If grab them by the pussy isnt enough to repulse you and give you a clean, sane exit from the Trump nightmare, I cant help you.
Tell us what you really think, Rick.
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For Trump’s Congressional Backers, Hell Is Empty, and All the Demons Are Here (Original Post)
geek tragedy
Oct 2016
OP
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)1. I've spoken with Rick
Like most Republicans, I think he is deeply deluded about certain fundamental matters of sociopolitical organization, but he is a decent fellow, like that nice Republican uncle a lot of us have.
This is a hell of a piece of writing. And maybe if we're lucky maybe we get a decent conservative party we can work with out of this fiasco.
But I'm not counting on it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. He really is a polemicist extraordinaire.
He singlehandedly brought "wastrel" back into the living language via his discussions of Don Jr and Eric.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)3. He's got quite a way with words.
Think your donors will save you?
Good luck. Enough members of your caucus are infected with the Trump virus now that theyre going to make being in leadership an agonizing game of political chicken and donors love stability more than anything. Major donors are on the sidelines this cycle, and their risk aversion is growing. Think theyre going to swack checks for a party and candidates now stained by the anti-trade, anti-competitive, backwards stupidity, and white-nationalism embodied by Trump Republicanism?
Guess again. For the major donors, not about you; its about their brands, and the Trump brand is about as viable as Jeffrey Dahmer Breakfast Sausages.
Think your policy ideas will save you? The Ryan reform proposals were bold, smart, and necessary. The Troll Party hates them. You still dont get it; Trumps Troll party isnt conservative. Its statist, authoritarian, and frankly driven by racial and ethnic animus. Those that dont flatly oppose those policies are dreaming of an American economy from the fifties the 1850s.
Good luck. Enough members of your caucus are infected with the Trump virus now that theyre going to make being in leadership an agonizing game of political chicken and donors love stability more than anything. Major donors are on the sidelines this cycle, and their risk aversion is growing. Think theyre going to swack checks for a party and candidates now stained by the anti-trade, anti-competitive, backwards stupidity, and white-nationalism embodied by Trump Republicanism?
Guess again. For the major donors, not about you; its about their brands, and the Trump brand is about as viable as Jeffrey Dahmer Breakfast Sausages.
Think your policy ideas will save you? The Ryan reform proposals were bold, smart, and necessary. The Troll Party hates them. You still dont get it; Trumps Troll party isnt conservative. Its statist, authoritarian, and frankly driven by racial and ethnic animus. Those that dont flatly oppose those policies are dreaming of an American economy from the fifties the 1850s.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)4. This is the guy who coined "Cheeto Jesus" nt
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)5. I wonder how many Christian Extremists
have suddenly dropped off Trump's support?