@dilanesper It seems pretty clear that was the Democrats’ strategy. They couldn’t prove the really bad thing so they tried to prove something less bad and then act as if it meant he did the right really thing too.
It’s hard to imagine a greater irony: a celebration of the American Founding—whose entire purpose was rejecting kings, personality cults, and leader worship—being transformed into a vanity project for one man. The Founders fought a war to escape this kind of politics.
@ojfl@frogaustin@jaynordlinger A key tenet of the modern Republican Party is that every bad thing they do is actually the Democrats’ fault. It’s fundamental to their view that they’re always being victimized.
@jaynordlinger@MattWelch It seems pretty clear now though that it was all just politics for most (not all) people. Whatever tool is available to attack your opponents is fair game. Once it’s not useful anymore, you move on to something else.
@neoavatara Republican partisans will always find some way to justify “holding their nose” to vote for the Republican candidate. The question is whether any of this matters to people in the middle.
@rheyduck@DavidAFrench That’s what I see in person too. But then when Trump does the exact opposite of what they claim to support, their positions change accordingly. Then you realize it’s all just pretext.
@baseballcrank@chiproytx Chip Roy was the best example of someone who talked like a conservative but always found a way to support MAGA in the end. He was definitely more committed to the act than others.
@WFAN660 The only people this worked up about the situation are MAGA. They think there is a double standard for athletes that support Republicans. That’s all this is about.
@Holden_Culotta It had nothing to do with policy. Trump thought Massie was disloyal to him. So he told his followers to vote against Massie and they did.