These people have never had to face the consequences of their actions and it shows.
The US has done an absolute metric fuckton of coddling the absolute worst people and it shows.
That’s why the state was founded - to violently enforce the disgusting privilege of slavers.
These people are the heirs to that “throne” (ie. toilet).
Even when they did have to face the consequences, you know like Prances with Hawley, they still don’t learn.
oh look, the inevitable conclusion of what happens when you crave power for power’s sake so much that you sell your soul to appeal only to the true believers that your entire political career is 100% dependent on their votes even though you know they’re fucking insane and get ultraviolent at the barest perception of being slighted or inconvenienced.
It’s the opposite of face-eating leopards. “Surely making myself more appealing to racists and fanatics while empowering them won’t eventually lead to any consequences for me!”
This is why you don’t radicalize people. The less Trumpy members of the GOP had ample opportunity to speak up and make a change.
In the short term, you get a dedicated, cult-like following. In the longer term, nothing functions – even the stuff you want to function. Deradicalization takes a lot of time and resources, if you can even get that far.
I sincerely wonder what happens when Trump no longer exists. He is no spring chicken. Are all of these shortsighted politicians just going to bow to Don Jr. when the time comes? Because that’s what they have set themselves up for by being either stupid or spineless.
Truly, there has never been a more disappointing collection of flaccid chodes. No backbones to speak of in the lot of them.
Maybe y’all should have done some gun control at some point.
Now they’re all at the mercy of Trumps fucking brownshirts.
Maybe, just maybe, if will dawn on some of them that if their own party is acting like the Gestapo, they are on the wrong side of history…
Nah, who am I kidding.
Until they fear anti-fascists more, they will continue to capitulate to fascism.
I hate how true this is. I still won’t personally engage in violence out of principle, but the populous as a whole can only take so much before not even Netflix can distract them any longer, especially when the fascist government actively engages in violent behavior against that same populous.
I also hate how most people don’t care about what’s happening until it personally affects them or someone they know. Like, it’s just basic empathy.
Obligatory leopards and faces.
Aw shucks, I’m fresh out of pity for traitors.
lol. Eat shit and die.
I recall how in 2015 many in the Republican establishment were actually opposed to Trump getting into power. Then, they suddenly flipped and started saying he was the best ever, and have since then. It seems they got here on fear of Trump and his fervent fans and after enabling him for years, they end up… in fear of Trump and his fans.
my brother in christ you made the sandwich
Something weak something hard times something something?
Cowards
“They’re scared s—less about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,” a former member of Trump’s first administration told the outlet.
Good. It’s about time they’re afraid. It’s unfortunate that it took all this to make that happen, but here we are.
