@fraac1@lizatliz@AQuartermain Half the “anti-genocide” left is happy to cheerlead genocides as long as they’re being done by “muh based anti-imperialists”.
@JohnHartElysium@Jesse_Brenneman Right-wing activists pushed the GOP to the far-right by dogmatically supporting the furthest right nutjob in the primary, and turning up in numbers to vote for whichever warm body was running with an (R) next to their name in the general.
@JohnHartElysium@Jesse_Brenneman So long as there are more center-right votes up for grabs than leftist ones, a party seeking to win elections is going to keep hunting where the ducks are.
@Dread_Botlord@iamjourjean@IChotiner “Isaac Chotiner interview where the subject hangs themself with their own words” is basically a trope at this point.