Granting the bias, it is apparent he’s genuinely close to his family and doesn’t use his wealth and power to control them. He’s sleeping in Holiday Inns and doesn’t seem to care at all, happily eating at Arby’s and treating people with respect. If he was the worst of Republicans, we would be in a lot better shape. The mistake people make is thinking he represents a meaningful chunk of GOP voters. He absolutely does not.
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Think of Trump as the political equivalent of an alt-coin who has inspired a legion of followers to HODL.
I feel like that’s the analogy that best explains Trumper behavior.
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Mitt at 4% and Pence at 12% is kind of shocking to be honest. Just name recognition?
I assume they have negatives through the roof.
Mitt isn’t a monster, relatively speaking.
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Weirdly, Mitt’s dad seems to have been a fundamentally decent guy who once tricked Nixon into signing the Fair Housing Act.
I’ll have to disagree on Mitt’s dad being fundamentally decent. He was a racist ass hat who every once in a while he did something that wasn’t awful. Kind of like Mitt.
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Well, maybe he was only decent by the standards of the times.
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My silver lining is Pence held steady from November until February.
he’s certainly hanging in there
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These people don’t exist in any larger numbers than leprechauns and unicorns
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Some of Democratic strategy should be encouraging Republican-leaning voters to stay home rather than trying to get them to switch. We’re so conditioned to think in terms of expanding voting rights, that it doesn’t occur to some of us that suppressing the Republican vote is a valid option.
Can we find a way to get conservatives, but not others, to drown themselves in a depressing funk of bothsidesism?
I don’t think convincing your opponents to stay home with arguments should count as “suppression”.
I think it’s more fun to call it suppression even if the term isn’t completely accurate.
I get it’s bad form to dunk on Texas while people are suffering and many will die. It is horrific. That doesn’t mean we have to completely ignore shit like this:
It isn’t in any way minimizing the awful circumstances to point out that GOP orthodoxy is stupid.
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You don’t want to train your own supporters to think normal politics done by your side is somehow wrong. “Suppression” has a strong negative connotation among Dems.
What if I want to train my side to believe that suppressing Democrats is wrong but suppressing Republicans is good?
Are we seriously rehabilitating the public image of Mitt “corporations are people 47% don’t pay taxes” Romney? Fucking come on. You don’t have to help the other side move the god damn Overton window.
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This is the biggest danger of Trump and his supporters. They make other republicans look sort of sane. It’s really bad.
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This is why I relentlessly make fun of the reverse ace John McCain despite his Obamacare-saving vote and death. I will not abide by anyone thinking of him as a hero.
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Yup. And let us never forget how Ted Cruz wanted no federal relief for Puerto Rico and then when Houston flooded argued vehemently for federal relief. He is the WOAT. These posts remind me why I hate living in Texas.
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