There comes a point in the career of every contemporary Republican politician when they will be forced to do, say, or defend something that is broadly unconscionable. This mandatory inevitable heel turn is the price of conservative political ambition in the Donald Trump era. In exchange for the right to seek and attain national office in the party that he leads, Trump—in a curdled neofascist parody of the wedding scene from The Godfather—always eventually requires his supplicants to prove their loyalty to him by taking on his vendettas, bigotries, hatreds, and obsessions as their own. What’s more, he prefers that they do it with gusto.

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  • tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Tne mainstream media gave him the `articulate and bright and clean´ treatment back in 2016 as a presidential hopeful. Remember they called him a moderate?? His political platform was transparent Christian Nationalism!!? So, he was always a hypocritical fascist cocksucker??? Duh