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The reason why I know I'm on the right side of history when it comes to Donald Trump is that, for years, so many Republicans, who are now for and against MAGA, constantly dismissed claims by folks like myself about what the GOP really was, where it was headed, and what was driving it.
Long before Trump took over the GOP, I said it wasn't a matter of if someone like him took over the party, but when. The writing was on the walls with the rise of the Tea Party, which was really nothing more than a white conservative freak-out over our nation's first black president, to the continued mainstream Republican embrace of conspiracy theories such as the racist birther nonsense and a military exercise being part of Obama's "plot to confiscate guns." A conspiracy that became such a belief among many on the right that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had the state's National Guard monitoring the United States military, while military commanders were hosting town halls to address questions by citizens, some of whom were literally burying their guns in anticipation of Obama trying to seize them.
For my entire life, the Republican Party has always been fueled by racism, bigotry, hypocrisy, and policies that made absolutely no sense and that their own actions didn't even support.
Sure, they denied all of that, though often only with subtle overtures to it. It was clear that this was at the heart of the conservative movement.
Fiscal conservative? How does a party make that claim when they've added more to the national debt over the past half-century than their political counterparts and haven't had a president from their party balance the budget since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
They even refer to Ronald Reagan as the "fiscal conservative icon" when he tripled the national debt. Even when I was relatively young, that didn't make any sense.
This is the party that literally impeached Bill Clinton for lying about a consensual affair but won't even entertain having Donald Trump testify about the Epstein files despite his very questionable behavior, several reports that show he's been actively trying to cover all of this up, and the reality that his name appears more times in these documents than every other person other than Jeffrey Epstein.
Christian values? Please — nothing about the GOP before or after Trump has had anything to do with actual Christian values. My entire life, Republicans have been trying to cut programs that help the poor and needy, block access to health care, and vilify anyone and everyone but the richest among us. All while using rhetoric based on hate, fear, conspiracies, and paranoia. There's never been anything Christian about the GOP, and their complete selling out to someone like Trump — the antithesis of actual Christian values — proved that.
And while some of the Republicans who now stand against Trump will often act like they're surprised at where the party's gone, especially when it comes to embracing racism and bigotry, did they not pay attention to the fact that Republicans elected David Duke, a white nationalist and former Grand Wizard of the KKK, decades before Trump ever ran for president?
That wasn't a random outlier — that was a sign of things to come: a day where blatant white nationalists such as Nick Fuentes and Laura Loomer are featured media figures among conservatives — with Loomer being a well-known advisor to this president.
For years, folks like myself said the GOP was a party based on ideologies that didn't make sense, blatant hypocrisy, fake Christian values — fueled by racism, hate, fear, and conspiracies.
And Republicans all said we were full of crap, fear-mongering, and were just "out to smear conservatives."
In 2013, I wrote an article titled The Conservative March Toward a Society of Sociopaths, in which I argued that the GOP was pushing the nation toward the idea that empathy is bad, greed is good, and people should only care about themselves, while vilifying and hating those who oppose them.
Then came along Donald Trump, a blatant hypocrite, a fake Christian who built his entire campaign and brand on racism, hate, fear, and conspiracies, who didn't just become the next Republican president — he took over the entire GOP. A raving narcissist who has only, and will only, ever care about himself.
A saying I've had for most of my life is that if you can predict it, then it's not a coincidence. And the fact that someone like Trump taking over the party — backed by the hypocritical, bottom-feeding scumbags that have supported him within the party and the right-wing media — was literally what I saw happening to the Republican Party tells me it wasn't just coincidence; it was inevitable.
Because what folks like myself spent years calling the GOP, while Republicans denied all of our accusations, turned out to be absolutely true.
Long before Trump took over the GOP, I said it wasn't a matter of if someone like him took over the party, but when. The writing was on the walls with the rise of the Tea Party, which was really nothing more than a white conservative freak-out over our nation's first black president, to the continued mainstream Republican embrace of conspiracy theories such as the racist birther nonsense and a military exercise being part of Obama's "plot to confiscate guns." A conspiracy that became such a belief among many on the right that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had the state's National Guard monitoring the United States military, while military commanders were hosting town halls to address questions by citizens, some of whom were literally burying their guns in anticipation of Obama trying to seize them.
For my entire life, the Republican Party has always been fueled by racism, bigotry, hypocrisy, and policies that made absolutely no sense and that their own actions didn't even support.
Sure, they denied all of that, though often only with subtle overtures to it. It was clear that this was at the heart of the conservative movement.
Fiscal conservative? How does a party make that claim when they've added more to the national debt over the past half-century than their political counterparts and haven't had a president from their party balance the budget since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
They even refer to Ronald Reagan as the "fiscal conservative icon" when he tripled the national debt. Even when I was relatively young, that didn't make any sense.
This is the party that literally impeached Bill Clinton for lying about a consensual affair but won't even entertain having Donald Trump testify about the Epstein files despite his very questionable behavior, several reports that show he's been actively trying to cover all of this up, and the reality that his name appears more times in these documents than every other person other than Jeffrey Epstein.
Christian values? Please — nothing about the GOP before or after Trump has had anything to do with actual Christian values. My entire life, Republicans have been trying to cut programs that help the poor and needy, block access to health care, and vilify anyone and everyone but the richest among us. All while using rhetoric based on hate, fear, conspiracies, and paranoia. There's never been anything Christian about the GOP, and their complete selling out to someone like Trump — the antithesis of actual Christian values — proved that.
And while some of the Republicans who now stand against Trump will often act like they're surprised at where the party's gone, especially when it comes to embracing racism and bigotry, did they not pay attention to the fact that Republicans elected David Duke, a white nationalist and former Grand Wizard of the KKK, decades before Trump ever ran for president?
That wasn't a random outlier — that was a sign of things to come: a day where blatant white nationalists such as Nick Fuentes and Laura Loomer are featured media figures among conservatives — with Loomer being a well-known advisor to this president.
For years, folks like myself said the GOP was a party based on ideologies that didn't make sense, blatant hypocrisy, fake Christian values — fueled by racism, hate, fear, and conspiracies.
And Republicans all said we were full of crap, fear-mongering, and were just "out to smear conservatives."
In 2013, I wrote an article titled The Conservative March Toward a Society of Sociopaths, in which I argued that the GOP was pushing the nation toward the idea that empathy is bad, greed is good, and people should only care about themselves, while vilifying and hating those who oppose them.
Then came along Donald Trump, a blatant hypocrite, a fake Christian who built his entire campaign and brand on racism, hate, fear, and conspiracies, who didn't just become the next Republican president — he took over the entire GOP. A raving narcissist who has only, and will only, ever care about himself.
A saying I've had for most of my life is that if you can predict it, then it's not a coincidence. And the fact that someone like Trump taking over the party — backed by the hypocritical, bottom-feeding scumbags that have supported him within the party and the right-wing media — was literally what I saw happening to the Republican Party tells me it wasn't just coincidence; it was inevitable.
Because what folks like myself spent years calling the GOP, while Republicans denied all of our accusations, turned out to be absolutely true.
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WINNING!!!!!
See that's funny, which is the difference between Fallon and Kimmel.
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Why not just run a hospice?
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Whatever. I’ve never seen Fallon cry on TV. THAT’S funny!