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The Clothespin Campaign: A French History Lesson For Anti-Trump Republicans

There are politicians we strongly disagree with, and then there are anti-constitutional crypto-fascist authoritarians. Pretending they’re the same is what happened at Vichy, and it should never be allowed to happen again.

No, this is what one might call a unicameral breakdown: one, and only one, of our major parties has been going crazy for twenty years and is now having a full-fledged gibbering, I’m-The-Emperor-of-Antarctica breakdown. It is hard not to feel just a touch of schadenfreude about this. The Republicans have served up eight years of hatred and nihilism—and now they are surprised to find they have inherited hatred and nihilism as they actually appear in the real world, not neatly blown-dry and smirking but red and orange and heaving, cursing and swearing and contemptuous. Republicans four years ago saw Trump offering the raw sewage of racism called “birtherism” and they giggled timidly and thought that, if diluted sufficiently with moderating water, it would somehow become potable. The chance to drive out Trump for good was Mitt Romney’s when, at no cost to him—and with the additional certainty of getting a disproportionate share of approval for minimal political courage—he could have rejected Trump’s support, instead of going to his hotel in Las Vegas to thank him for his endorsement. That tiny price proved too much to pay. And now they are surprised?

You would expect to see conservatives pensive and trying to walk back the crazy as rapidly as they can. But they can’t. The crazy is an addiction, the crazy is their language, the crazy is their life: the “Establishment” Marco Rubio insists that Obama is consciously trying to do harm to his country; Ted Cruz does, too, and says that the White House is protecting Hillary Clinton from being indicted as a criminal. The crazy has so penetrated the logic that it is hardly possible to make the separate case against the truly crazy.

Jun wrote: 现在德州流行的谣言是 Obama 是 male stripper prostitute. 一个当选教育委员的老太就这么公开传谣。

At one “Kill the Bill” protest on Capitol Hill, Tim Phillips, the head of Americans for Prosperity, accused Obama of “trying to cram this two-thousand-page bill down the throat of the American people.” Days later, at a second Capitol Hill rally, riled-up crowds spat on a passing Democratic congressman; mocked Barney Frank, the gay congressman from Massachusetts, as a “faggot”; and shouted racist epithets at three black congressmen, John Lewis, Emanuel Cleaver, and Jim Clyburn.

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dropby wrote:我认识不少华裔说如果汤普对决老太也不选老太。我一直很奇怪为啥华裔里民主党支持民主党的这么少。jun能给我解下惑吗？

笑嘻嘻 wrote:

dropby wrote:我认识不少华裔说如果汤普对决老太也不选老太。

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