Having spent their entire adult lives building the Republican Monster Machine that produced (in no particular order) a Rove, a Dubya, two Cheneys, a DeLay, a Gingrich, a Jordan, an Atwater, a Nixon, a Thurmond, a Palin, a Helms, a Ryan, a McConnell, a Sessions, a Franks, a Cotton, an Inhofe, a Bachmann, a King, a Mulvaney, a Gohmert, an Akins, a Moore, a Kobach, a Trump, the Right's Hate Radio empire, the Fox News network and so many more horrible people and things...
...our Republican Never Trumpers friends are now positively overflowing with advice for Democrats about how we should conduct our business.
Today we feature Rick Wilson:
Hey, Rick, wasn't destroying the Democratic party your life's goal up until about five minutes ago? And you aren't a Democrat either, right? Of course I would ask Rick these questions personally, but he's kind of a gutless little wiener who blocked me on Twitter for asking these sorts of questions, and then went on a hilarious little tear about how people who block him on Twitter are gutless little wieners.I'll say it again: Bernie Sanders is going to destroy the Democratic party, and he's not even a Democrat.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 3, 2019
Because that's how Republicans roll.
And speaking of wieners...Peter Wehner:
"The Democratic Party is Radicalizing." My latest piece in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/UkDq1sGqu6— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) April 3, 2019
And on the tag-team undercard today we have, Max Boot retweeting Jennifer Rubin hyping Dana Milbank's monumentally stupid take --
-- which is actually just recycled David Brooks drivel from last election cycle. From "David Brooks: Both Siderism Is a Farce that Gives Us Meaning":Opinion | Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Donald Trump of the left https://t.co/qhdffwEKhp BINGO!!— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 3, 2019
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And so, of course, today -- right on schedule -- Mr. Brooks reverted to his default setting: a soulless, Conservative Both Siderist algorithm into which his operators simply punch which aspect of the Left they wish to fuck over this week.
The pattern is an easy one to spot if you simply take the trouble to look for it. For example, last year during the primaries, Mr. Brooks Both Siderist sermonettes were all about "Trump and Sanders" (from February, 16 2016)?
Hillary, for you the whirlwind is Bernie Sanders. For the rest of you it’s Donald Trump...Trump has no actual policies and Sanders has little chance of getting his passed.And yet the supporters don’t care. Sanders and Trump......the Trump and Sanders phenomena.In debates Sanders is uninhibited by the constraints of reality, so his answers are always bolder. Trump speaks from the id, not from any policy paper, so his answers are always more vivid.Many Americans feel like they are the victims of a slow-moving natural disaster. Sanders and Trump...I’d love to see one of you counter the Trump and Sanders emotional tones with a bold shift in psychology...Let Trump and Sanders shout, harangue and lecture...Let them [Trump and Sanders] deliver long, repetitive and uninterrupted lectures...Let them [Trump and Sanders] stand angry and solitary. You run as part of a team, a band of brothers...Let them [Trump and Sanders] assert that all our problems can be solved if other people sacrifice...Let them [Trump and Sanders] emphasize the cold relations of business (Trump) or of the state (Sanders)...Let them [Trump and Sanders] preach pessimism...Sanders and Trump have adopted emotional tones that are going to offend and exhaust people over time.And once we moved to from the primary to the general election -- surprise! -- suddenly the music was the same but the lyrics has changed to suit the needs of the Brooks Both Siderist algorithm (from September 13, 2016):The two main candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, are remarkably distrustful...
They have set the modern standards for withholding information — his not releasing tax and health records, her not holding regular news conferences or quickly disclosing her pneumonia diagnosis...
Both have a problem with spontaneous, reciprocal communication with a hint of vulnerability...
Both ultimately hew to a distrustful, stark, combative, zero-sum view of life...
Trump’s convention speech was the perfect embodiment of the politics of distrust...Clinton’s “Basket of Deplorables” riff comes from the same spiritual place...And now that we are nearly a year into the maladministration of President Stupid (and now that he has made his great, public show of boo-hooing) Mr. David Brooks has dried his tears and is back on the fucking job!What’s Wrong With RadicalismThere was a striking moment in the focus group that consultant Frank Luntz recently held with a group of Roy Moore supporters in Alabama. One of the voters said that the women who are accusing Moore of harassment are being paid to do so. Luntz asked the group how many people thought the women are being paid. A bunch of hands shot up and voices called out that all of the women are being paid....That attitude is evident on the pro-Trump right, but also on the left...
It never fucking ends.
Behold, A Tip Jar
5 comments:
He is not immortal, so it will end someday.
He will, that is, not the tactic.
That will only end, as Bill Clinton once told Jon Stewart, when it stops working for them.
-Doug in Oakland
When he comes to a fork in the civics road, he scoops a silver spoonful of bullshit in his mouth.
Nothing healthier than a good deep bellie laugh.
"I'll say it again: Bernie Sanders is going to destroy the Democratic party, and he's not even a Democrat." Rick Wilson
(pause to laugh, again).
From a guy who aided in destroying the republican ideology. Now the ideology of Oligarch Anarchy.
I think Rick's alarmist is that Bernie is a threat to his GOP. I mean come on Rick, The priority is the clear and present danger Trump and the subservient GOP is not only threatening to do. More like, are in progress..
Well, since Rick doesn't know me from Adam nor blocked me, I tried to be a bit of a stand-in for ya and tweeted a reply...
Why do GOP operatives who made the wrong bet on Trump, and who, prior to Trump were hell-bent of f**king over the Democrats, feel compelled to give Democrats advice and expect them to seriously listen to them? Asking for a friend...
Somebody should hand Brooks a dodecahedron and have him both-sides it for, oh, the rest of his life.
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