The responses to the Trump verdict offer an instructive – and alarming – reminder of what defines the American Right today: They are out for bloody retaliation, all dressed up as patriotism.
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If Trump wins and the Republicans keep at least the House or re-take the Senate, Ukraine and NATO are finished. And if that happens, Putin will turn to Europe.
The reactions to Trump’s conviction offer an impressive display of the siege mentality that defines the Right, the permission structure that governs conservative politics, and the logic that compels them to close ranks behind Donald Trump.
The extremists, those who perceive the world entirely through the lens of a politics of revenge, are thoroughly in control of defining the problem, the agenda, the style of politics, and the political identity on the Right. And they long to get bloody.
@tzimmer_history Why, I ask myself, do people turn that way, when cooperation and empathy are so much easier and nicer. But that is probably not a political but an anthropological question.
["And they long to get bloody"]
They are cowards pledging the blood of others.
The instigators, like Mike Johnson, are like that that drunken loudmouth friend of a friend whom you used to go bar hopping with, where the night always ended with them picking a fist fight with other patrons by yelling to the crowd, "my friends & I aren't going to take any shite from you A-Holes"!