To me, trying to listen to people like Trump, or MTG, or Jordan or Scalise or Cruz or the Johnsons– Ron or Mike– pretty much anyone on the right– is difficult because it doesn’t take long for them to start sounding like they’re just spitting words out before they forget them.
It’s like they’ve been given the words they must speak from some master list of talking points, and it doesn’t take long for them to sound a little—or a lot—off. The paranoia comes through, the provincialism and shallowness come through, the anger and naivete come through.
They’re all throwing spaghetti at the wall, spouting inane and insane rhetoric designed to throw shade at somebody and keep in the good steads of King Trump. It’s hard to take any of them seriously because their attempts at sensible, productive dialogue are so infrequent.
For many of the hotheads, it’s just hiding behind a Bible they don’t know how to read, spouting ridicule, accusing, blaming, defaming. Nothing of value exits their mouths, and the belief among many across the aisle is that there is no hope for them, that they want an America we must never return to.
Trouble is, their pathetic attempt at casting a vision for the country seems to be finding many receptive ears. There are many who aren’t averse to returning to the 1950s, apparently, or maybe even further back than that.
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