1/ I occasionally need to remind myself that @SenateMajLdr, @SpeakerRyan and other @GOP leaders aren't cowards for not standing up to Trump. They are getting what they want in cost-benefit terms and they have no other lens through which to view the world.
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2/ This administration has been brutally effective for a particular species of conservatives. They've managed to pass aristocracy-favoring tax cuts while gutting the federal government. I think they've thought it through and concluded
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3/ It's the starve-the-beast strategy brought to dizzying new heights. Every day, they sabotage the effectiveness of government administrations without legislature or popular consent. Court appointments (relatively anonymous figures to the public) do the same albeit more durably.
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3/ That's the
@GOP's bet and exploit. In the end, they'll get to use Trump as a fall guy for all their fuckery; the pundit class will call for a return to normalcy; people will say "yes" because it's better than now; and, the@GOP's alterations to the social fabric will endure.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
4/ People will forget about the
@GOP's obvious, rank complicity because of exhaustion. Animosity is tiring, and there has been too much information to process. I can't even remember last week's bullshit. I realize that every week.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
5/ And it's not like they haven't laid the groundwork. Every one of them sporadically does their performative tut-tut dance. Eventually,
@FoxNews will play those clips over and over again, re-weighting history to help shitty people believe the lies they want to believe.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread
6/ To be clear, I'm not saying this is inevitable or even probable. But, I do think that's what a large contingent of @GOP operatives are banking on.
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