GOP slouches into the Crazy -IMMIGRATION | Trump Firehose of anti-immigrant posts and rhetoric

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RockyMtnHoo said:
Trump beat Biden by around 8% in Ohio. If Brown holds his Senate seat, and Harris comes within 5%, I’d consider that a win in Ohio.
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Agree. Every dollar St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago spends in Ohio is a dollar he doesn't spend in North Carolina. I hope St. Donald focuses exclusively on holding Ohio over the remainder of the campaign. I hope St. Donald buys a house in Ohio, just so he can register to vote there. I hope the Trump campaign adopts the slogan, "As goes Ohio, so goes the nation!" Maybe make a few trips down to Texas and demand that Ted Cruz appear on stage with him. Maybe shift some of his media budget to California and New York, away from places like North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
 
The problem the Trump campaign and the Republican Party is facing is that they've effectively removed all of the real adults from the campaign/party. In 2016, Trump and his brand of bat-shit crazy folks were new enough that the party apparatus was full of folks who could at least provide some protection from his crazy. His administration, while led by the BSC brigade, was largely staffed by rank-and-file Pubs who weren't onboard with all of his crazy and so they either prevented the crazy from leaking out or, at a minimum, shaped it to be a bit less crazy. In 2020, Trump wasn't able to completely revamp everything, especially in the middle of the pandemic, so while the BSC brigade had taken on more authority and had been able to fill out more of the campaign staff with like-minded folks, there was still enough rank-and-file Pubs (especially from Pence's side) to hold things together.

However, four additional years plus being able to focus on political stuff rather than governing has allowed Trump and his BSC brigade to essentially infiltrate every part of the Republican Party. Almost anyone willing to stand up to Trump and his folks have either voluntarily left or been kicked out of their roles with the party and Trump's entire campaign has been rebuilt in his BSC image. IMHO, that's a big part of why Trump went with Vance as his VP choice rather than a candidate more established on the national political scene, no worries that Vance would have his own staff of any size he'd want to bring on and try to integrate into the campaign/party staff. At this point, everything in the Republican Party and, especially in Trump's campaign, are fully aligned with the absolute insanity that is Trump and his BSC inner circle and there is nothting left to stop that insanity from being on full display.

The really scary part is that, despite all of this, the election will be close and there's a far greater chance than there should be that Trump may be elected.
 
Good commentary on the whole migrant pet-eating farce from Defector's David Roth, who in my opinion has always been dead on when it comes to Trump and related subjects:

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What A Lie Is For | Defector

At the most basic level, there is just no percentage in trying to parse a political campaign’s decision to try to incite a pogrom. It does a favor to the people doing it, for one thing, because even assessing it along the lines of any other campaign decision provides a cosmetic coat of reason to […]
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Which leaves us with this: One of the two biggest political parties in the country, the one that controls the highest courts, and has as a decent-sized and growing segment of its base people who like to make bomb threats and live in a prolonged and deranging fantasy of political violence. That party offers its base nothing but the license to further lavish over those fantasies, as well as the teasing possibility that they will someday be permitted to make them real. Last Friday, at a rally, Trump said that he would deport Springfield's Haitian community, which is living and working in this country legally, en masse, to Venezuela. All of these people are unserious and behave unseriously, but it would be foolish to assume they don't mean it.

That is it. The tide rushes out on everything else, every other idea that the conservative movement (never very convincingly) pretended to have, and leaves this behind. The actual beliefs are self-evident: that the suffering of others is a tool, or a toy; that everyone else in the world is a threat or an obstacle or something to wad up and throw away; that even the most abstracted inconveniencing of their own sainted comfort is tantamount to the end of the world. A cohort of the most fearful and most credulous and most idly vicious people this country has ever produced, who have lately awakened to some strange and terrible appetites and whose only real faith is in their own unshameable blamelessness, watches to see what will happen next. This is what the lie is for—to freeze this uneasy moment in place and hold it there forever, a threat unspooling endlessly over the horizon, not so much into the future as instead of it.
 
rodoheel said:
Good commentary on the whole migrant pet-eating farce from Defector's David Roth, who in my opinion has always been dead on when it comes to Trump and related subjects:

defector.com

What A Lie Is For | Defector

At the most basic level, there is just no percentage in trying to parse a political campaign’s decision to try to incite a pogrom. It does a favor to the people doing it, for one thing, because even assessing it along the lines of any other campaign decision provides a cosmetic coat of reason to […]
defector.com defector.com

Which leaves us with this: One of the two biggest political parties in the country, the one that controls the highest courts, and has as a decent-sized and growing segment of its base people who like to make bomb threats and live in a prolonged and deranging fantasy of political violence. That party offers its base nothing but the license to further lavish over those fantasies, as well as the teasing possibility that they will someday be permitted to make them real. Last Friday, at a rally, Trump said that he would deport Springfield's Haitian community, which is living and working in this country legally, en masse, to Venezuela. All of these people are unserious and behave unseriously, but it would be foolish to assume they don't mean it.

That is it. The tide rushes out on everything else, every other idea that the conservative movement (never very convincingly) pretended to have, and leaves this behind. The actual beliefs are self-evident: that the suffering of others is a tool, or a toy; that everyone else in the world is a threat or an obstacle or something to wad up and throw away; that even the most abstracted inconveniencing of their own sainted comfort is tantamount to the end of the world. A cohort of the most fearful and most credulous and most idly vicious people this country has ever produced, who have lately awakened to some strange and terrible appetites and whose only real faith is in their own unshameable blamelessness, watches to see what will happen next. This is what the lie is for—to freeze this uneasy moment in place and hold it there forever, a threat unspooling endlessly over the horizon, not so much into the future as instead of it.
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I know the author hasn't met HY, but damn if he didn't just read him to filth.
 
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