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The last generation to witness Republicans who were not total scumbags were the baby boomers and even then, Republicans were scumbags. For every Dwight Eisenhower you had a couple of Richard Nixons or Spiro Agnews, Back then Republicans were at worst thieves and liar but today's Republicans are pedophiles, traitors and insurrectionists. And I'm not only talking about trash like Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Madison Cawthorn, I'm talking about every scumbag who would vote for a Republican.
The Republican base is most of the reason for why there are so few moral Republican in Washington. Truth is the enemy of the GOP base.
Op Ed: Trash like Trump, Cruz, Hawley, Graham, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Rush Limabugh, Mark Dice, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Jeannine Pirro, Lindsey Graham, Louie Gohmert, Rand Paul, Madison Cawthorn, Ron DeSantis etc... could not exist without MAGAts. Republican voters are not victims of trash like Josh Hawley, they enable trash like Hawley, They create trash like Hawley. 70 million MAGAts voted for Trump in spite of knowing that Trump is a liar, cheater, criminal, idiot and a traitor. Maybe we can blame Trump's "win" in 2016 strictly on ignorance but even that would be a stretch. Trump's win then was mostly a function of the depravity of the GOP base and the 70 million votes he got in 2020 confirm that.
Isaac Schorr can try placing the blame on mounting pile of trash that runs the GOP but his attempt fails miserably. The GOP leadership thinks their base is stupid because their base really is stupid and behind closed doors they freely acknowledge that. They probably also acknowledge in their minds that their base is evil because they know that they can't prove otherwise.
Trash like Josh are what they are but to attribute the depravity that is the GOP base to sleazy politicians and right wing media scum doesn't even pass the smell test. The depravity that is today's GOP and the depravity the right wing media could not exist without the depravity that is the GOP base and the 70 million scumbags who voted for Trump.
The National Review doesn't want to piss off its dwindling readership by telling them the unpopular truth so I edited the article with what I suppose the writer Isaac Shorr was really thinking but didn't say. I inserted what Issaac was really thinking in bold.
Josh Hawley Is Calling You Stupid Because You Are
Isaac Schorr Fri, January 8, 2021, 4:21 PM EST
Are you a Republican voter? Do you plan to participate in the 2024 presidential primary? If your answer to these first two questions is “yes,” I have a third: Aren’t you angry? You're always pissed about something because most of you are losers.
Almost daily, Josh Hawley, the lean and hungry scumbag criminal legislator who helped incite an attack on his own place of work, intimates that a majority of Republicans are stupid. Make no mistake: The senator from Missouri is guilty of far more than pandering or misleading to appeal to “the base” on occasion. Your presumedactual ignorance and gullibility are the driving forces behind his every move suckers.
The latest insult came on Thursday, only a day after a conspiracy theory not only boosted by, but acted upon by Hawley — a snobby punk Yale Law School graduate who didn’t believe for a moment that the election was stolen by Democrats, or that it could be stolen by Republicans in Congress during the certification process — resulted in an attack on the U.S. Capitol building. But for Josh Hawley, the greatest tragedy of this past week is not that there was a failed insurrection egged on by the president of the United States. It’s that Simon & Schuster, the erstwhile publisher of Hawley’s forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Big Tech (Big Tech is another issue where Hawley assumesknows your ignorance), announced it would not move forward with the project. Here was Hawley’s response:
This could not be more Orwellian. Simon & Schuster is canceling my contract because I was representing my constituents, leading a debate on the Senate floor on voter integrity, which they have now decided to redefine as sedition. Let me be clear, this is not just a contract dispute. It’s a direct assault on the First Amendment. Only approved speech can now be published. This is the Left looking to cancel everyone they don’t approve of. I will fight this cancel culture with everything I have. We’ll see you in court.
If it’s a constitutional claim that Hawley is planning on making in court, he can expect to have about as much luck as the Trump campaign has had in recent months. Simon & Schuster’s decision is neither Orwellian nor a violation of the First Amendment, much less a “direct assault” on it. The government is not restricting Hawley’s speech. He is free to find a publisher willing to associate itself with him. I believe that Simon & Schuster should not have canceled this contract, as America is better off when its institutions abide by the spirit and not just the letter of the First Amendment unless they are publishing the lies of liars. Lies are not protected speech. But the company is under no constitutional obligation to associate with Hawley. I can certainly understand why it would not want to after Wednesday’s events.
The objective of Hawley’s statement is obvious: to take this personal event, which has occurred as a direct result of his own behavior, and to make Republicans feel as if this was a personal attack on them and their beliefs. It was not. But remember: Hawley’s political fortunes are tied to a bet that voters won’t think clearly. Restated: Hawley knows that Missouri's Republican voters are a bunch of depraved dumb fucks. A bet that he is all-in on after continuing to object to the certification of the election by Congress even after the assault on the Capitol.
Most insidious about Hawley’s assumption is that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. When fake conservative officials such as Hawley and the disgraced Ted Cruz — leaders we’re supposed to be able to trust — propagate conspiracy theories, that signals to voters that these theories are or may be true. Conspiracy theories are natural, and laymen’s belief in them does not automatically make them stupid. We all have busy lives, and most Americans are unable to spend their every waking moment staying apprised of every political going-on. They rely on officials of their own ideological bent to tell them the truth. When those officials lie for perceived political benefit, it has consequences. Consequences made more serious by motivated reasoning and an inclination to believe the worst of “the enemy.” Consequences that are sometimes even bloody.
Much is made these days, especially by Senator Hawley, of “the elites” and their supposed disdain for regular Americans. For many years, and particularly since Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination in 2016, Senator Mitt Romney has been branded such an elitist. But Romney spoke far more wisely on this subject than Hawley on Wednesday: “The best way we can show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth!” Indeed. The older you get, the more facts of life your parents let you in on. It starts with Santa Claus, and it only gets more depressing from there.
I have one more question, then. What’s more condescending and scornful: truth or deceit?
