The Conspiracies and Cruelty of the Trumpist GOP - The Bulwark

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The Conspiracies and Cruelty of the Trumpist GOP - The Bulwark
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at CPAC on Sunday, and in the Brady Briefing Room yesterday reporters asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki what President Biden thinks about that. Her reply:...
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8:52 AM · Feb 24, 2021

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Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at CPAC on Sunday, and in the Brady Briefing Room yesterday reporters asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki what President Biden thinks about that. Her reply: We’ve spent enough time talking about Trump, and we’re instead going focus on “the American people and our objectives to help them and our commitment to helping them.”

Amen. There’s been more attention given to Trump than anyone on the planet in the last four years and we shouldn’t feel the need to report what he says going forward as he continues to scream that he had an election stolen from him.

Instead, we should focus on the miscreants, hacks, and charlatans he’s left in control of the Republican party.

There are many qualities that we have come to expect from those in positions of political power. Three important ones are empathy, morality, and leadership. How is the GOP doing on each of them?

In a hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin continued to spread the lie that Antifa provoked the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. Yet Trump told the rioters “We love you, you’re very special,” so you have to wonder how Johnson can make that claim. Is he telling us that Trump loves Antifa?

Sen. Ted Cruz fled to Cancún during a recent winter storm that devastated his home state of Texas. Meanwhile, QAnon supporters put together TikTok videos trying to light snowballs on fire in an attempt to show that Bill Gates or another billionaire was behind the “fake snow” in Texas. (If the snow really were fake, does that make Cruz’s attempted escape more defensible, or less?)

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