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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArticle suggests why MAGA "conservatives" won't ditch Trump for more "presentable" Pence,
who would still give them judges, tax cuts and conservative policies (emphasis added):
Trump is delegitimizing the Constitution itself with conspiracy theory impeachment is a coup: Columnist
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Irving Kristol once said that conservatives are divided between those who are anti-state and those who are simply anti-left, wrote Khatiri. It is now clear that MAGA world is not conservative because it has deeply rooted principles. It is a movement that exists only to own the libs. It isnt that they accept Trumps bad character and the tweets because they get the policies they like.
They are here for the tweets, Khatiri added. Any policies and the judges they wind up liking are just a garnish
Moostache
(9,897 posts)They won't abandon Trump, ever, for anything.
His abhorrent behavior and crass jackass demeanor are not bugs to them, they are THE feature.
These are people who looked at a multiple bankruptcy, dead-beat business failure and serial philanderer as some kind of financial genius and moral standard? No....they watched his asshole in a boardroom fake character show and rooted for the next "You're fired" humiliation of a contestant and fantasized about someday being on THAT side of the table to fire someone in the most inhumane manner possible.
The average IQ of a Trump MAGAt is hovering between a cool spring day and room temperature, but their hate-o-meters are registering in the range of magma and supernovae. These are deeply stupid, willfully ignorant, horrifically bigoted morons and the ONLY thing they like is seeing suffering or outrage or torture of "others".
Immigrant children in cages? FINE BY THEM....damn brown people sneaking into 'murica anyway...
Grabbing pussies and raping women? FINE BY THEM...they were probably asking for it, and really, who WOULDN'T want to have him rough them up a bit and take what's his????
Tax breaks and financial gains for him and his enablers while the economy starts to list and is heading for a huge correction or crash? FINE BY THEM...those 'smart' businessmen are keeping communists out, don't cha know??? (And it totally owns the libs too!!!)...
Fuck them all. I seriously want to know who they are so when the Democratic Party starts cleaning up this mess, we can tsk-tsk them and tell them to go ask Trump to solve their problems NOW...
CrispyQ
(36,514 posts)She worked at a place that had Limbaugh on in the back room every day for hours & in 18 months the transformation in her was stark. She passed in '06, & I often wonder if our relationship would have survived Sarah Palin, the tea party, & President Obama. It barely survived Bush. Sticking it to the libs was a big part of her motivation. I asked her once, "Why would you vote against your own best interests just to stick it to some nebulous group you don't even know?" Her answer? "If the libs are for it, then it's not in my best interest."
Ignoring hate radio is the stupidest thing the dems/left ever did.
JHB
(37,162 posts)The MAGAs are the unvarnished face of American conservatism. The "anti-state" people may put out more column-inches of rhetoric and adopt an intellectual, worldly veneer, but they're the sideshow who only manage to get into power by getting the real conservative beast to take the saddle and bit, and riding it to electoral victory.