To Republicans it’s about loyalty over principle. Everyone who is part of the movement gets the benefit of doubt while anyone else is an enemy.
Of course this hasn’t stopped infighting within the Republican party, so they’re now factioning and fighting among themselves as well, each sect claiming to be the true base of the Republican party.
So far, Republicans are happy enough to stress-test the mutual loyalty doctrine with obnoxious officials embarrassing the integrity of their office, pushing / voting for odious bills that are poorly written and that overreach, or saying the incitement-to-violence and bigotry / exclusionist rhetoric out loud.
To clarify, there are no good, public-serving Republican subdivisions today: GOP and conservative values since the 1960s have pushed for policy that has led us to where we are now, where precarity (when not poverty) is so pervasive that Mussolini-wannabes and purge politics (culture wars) are popular. Every conservative alive who’s been voting either to cut social safety nets, cut taxes or elect officials to do so have bought tickets to ride this train. (Not to mention stock in the proverbial railroad company). The never-Trumpers and OG fiscal conservative Republicans are essentially members who wish there was still more altitude from which to plummet, and the impact point wasn’t so close.
So, it’s more that no-one wants to take responsibility for the consequences of their own voting histories, now that the train is rocketing forward at high speed, so they’re blaming each other.
But yeah, whether we meme this up to wedge the factions further apart, or find additional controversies with which to divide republicans, or even encourage factions to splinter and submit their own rival candidates to elect instead of Trump / DeSantis, we are doing good work to give US democracy (lower case) time to sort itself out.
To Republicans it’s about loyalty over principle. Everyone who is part of the movement gets the benefit of doubt while anyone else is an enemy.
Of course this hasn’t stopped infighting within the Republican party, so they’re now factioning and fighting among themselves as well, each sect claiming to be the true base of the Republican party.
Shall we divide them even more?
Whenever we can
So far, Republicans are happy enough to stress-test the mutual loyalty doctrine with obnoxious officials embarrassing the integrity of their office, pushing / voting for odious bills that are poorly written and that overreach, or saying the incitement-to-violence and bigotry / exclusionist rhetoric out loud.
To clarify, there are no good, public-serving Republican subdivisions today: GOP and conservative values since the 1960s have pushed for policy that has led us to where we are now, where precarity (when not poverty) is so pervasive that Mussolini-wannabes and purge politics (culture wars) are popular. Every conservative alive who’s been voting either to cut social safety nets, cut taxes or elect officials to do so have bought tickets to ride this train. (Not to mention stock in the proverbial railroad company). The never-Trumpers and OG fiscal conservative Republicans are essentially members who wish there was still more altitude from which to plummet, and the impact point wasn’t so close.
So, it’s more that no-one wants to take responsibility for the consequences of their own voting histories, now that the train is rocketing forward at high speed, so they’re blaming each other.
But yeah, whether we meme this up to wedge the factions further apart, or find additional controversies with which to divide republicans, or even encourage factions to splinter and submit their own rival candidates to elect instead of Trump / DeSantis, we are doing good work to give US democracy (lower case) time to sort itself out.