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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:47 AM Oct 2016

For 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 aren’t pure enough for the seething mass of nihilist rage monsters Trump’s Republican Party has become.

At the same time, you’re smeared with the fetid stench of Trump’s 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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They’re not interested in reform, conservative or otherwise. They’re 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 it’s 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 you’ll “Make Trump the House’s puppet” if he’s elected? You forgot that Trump’s fifth-column in the House will be there to sabotage exiting leadership from January 22nd on. Let’s be honest: your record of moral courage and political strength viz Trump inspires exactly zero confidence that you’d resist Trump’s excesses in the Oval Office for a hot second.

The rich irony for Republicans covered in Trump’s 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” isn’t enough to repulse you and give you a clean, sane exit from the Trump nightmare, I can’t 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
I've spoken with Rick Loki Liesmith Oct 2016 #1
He really is a polemicist extraordinaire. geek tragedy Oct 2016 #2
He's got quite a way with words. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2016 #3
This is the guy who coined "Cheeto Jesus" nt geek tragedy Oct 2016 #4
I wonder how many Christian Extremists yuiyoshida Oct 2016 #5

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
1. I've spoken with Rick
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:52 AM
Oct 2016

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.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:53 AM
Oct 2016

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.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:54 AM
Oct 2016
Think your donors will save you?

Good luck. Enough members of your caucus are infected with the Trump virus now that they’re 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 they’re 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; it’s 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 don’t get it; Trump’s Troll party isn’t conservative. It’s statist, authoritarian, and frankly driven by racial and ethnic animus. Those that don’t flatly oppose those policies are dreaming of an American economy from the fifties… the 1850s.


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