The pledge includes a clause saying that the candidate will support the eventual GOP nominee.

  • @cedarmesa@lemmy.world
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    211 months ago

    Its simple really. They look at him and see a reflection of themselves. He gave the licenses to be their shittiest selves and that feels liberating. Folks may want to go ahead and peer through this new lens republicans have given us and look at the people we know personally who identify as republican. Never again. How did dachau, birkenau, and auschwitz happen? Well uncle klaus packs up his lunchbox everyday and goes to work in the camp. Uncle klaus is a good guy, hes a patriot, he wouldnt do anything bad, therefore the party must be doing the right thing, right? If you still support the republican party at this point youre a shit human, full stop. This includes your uncle ______.

    • @flossdaily@lemmy.world
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      511 months ago

      The funny thing is that I think BEFORE Trump, Democrats might have been to some degree susceptible to the same sort of willful blindness to an awful human being who nonetheless supported our policy agenda.

      But now, having watched, with disgust, the moral corruption in the Republican party, Democrats are now hypersensitive to it. We have all become more self critical, and more righteous because we’ve seen what a slippery slope it is that the Republicans fell down.

      By contrast, Republicans have so much (mostly figurative) blood on their hands that they can’t admit they were wrong about Trump. They can’t admit it to us, and they certainly can’t admit it to themselves. If they were to acknowledge the glaringly obvious facts about Trump’s criminality regarding the attempt to overthrow the election or his theft, mishandling, and cover-up of classified documents, that would mean admitting that Democrats were right about Trump all along.

      It’s clear that Republicans would rather lobotomize themselves with Fox News than ever, ever, ever, admit to themselves that they’ve been the bad guys for years.