To hear Rachel Maddow tell it, the Republican party is backing a bunch of clowns for various seats around the country. And the clips she showed last night corroborated her assessment, perhaps no more glaringly than a woman at a Washington state Republican gathering who read something off her phone that denounced democracy—in part because she and the rest of the zombies are afraid any mention of any word containing “democrat” or its variations will give undue attention and credit to the Democratic party.
I’m pretty sure I heard that right.
One of the two major political parties in this country has gone off the rails, lost its mind, and it’s not the Democrats. The Republicans are just saying stuff that must be coming from somewhere. Is it homegrown nonsense, or might this mindset be fertilized by the firehose of bullshit being pumped in from Russia or elsewhere? Are these people capable of thinking for themselves, looking around, asking questions, noticing things?
Is life really that bad for them, or is this all about following Trump’s lead, buying into the darkness, doubling down, embodying the lies regardless of conditions on the ground and the appeals to wake up?
It’s headshakingly crazy– how deeply the con has burrowed.
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