TrumpWorld "would happily burn this country down"

[Nevilledog]

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Jamie Schler
@lifesafeast
"the Trump folks, the Republican voters, they would happily burn this country down to get the country they want...." @WalshFreedom

He speaks the truth. We see it.

salon.com
Joe Walsh on what the left doesn't get: TrumpWorld "would happily burn this country down"
"I'm responsible for Trump," says former GOP congressman. Now he's here to warn us: The danger isn't going away
11:17 AM · Feb 11, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/11/joe-walsh-on-what-the-left-doesnt-get-trumpworld-would-happily-this-country-down/

The Republican Party's assault on American democracy is an imminent existential crisis. But this disaster was long in the making.

For at least five decades the Republican Party and the larger conservative movement have moved farther and farther to the right, becoming increasingly anti-democratic and detached from reality. Today's Republican Party is a de facto fascist political organization, but that is only the logical end result of more than 50-years of policies and planning.

The Republican Party embraced white supremacy and white backlash in the late1960s and early 1970s, in the form of the "Southern strategy" as a way to win over white voters angry about the victories of the civil rights movement. It then enthusiastically chose the friendly fascism of Ronald Reagan and the gangster capitalism and right-wing libertarianism of the 1980s and beyond as an aspirational template.

It has grown ever closer to white evangelical Christianity, and ultimately to its most extreme factions, Christian nationalism and dominionism.

Republicans have also operated in concert with Fox News and the larger right-wing echo chamber where the most extreme and dangerous elements of the right gained increasing visibility and power over the direction of the "conservative" movement.

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[3catwoman3]

1. I have no doubt that Trump would happily...

…have all of us killed if he thought it would benefit him. He wouldn’t turn a hair.

[Texaswitchy]

2. Yes.

In a heartbeat.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Yep and I always keep in mind...

that RW trolls agree with him 100% and would gladly kill all Democrats given the chance.

Kick and rec.

[BlueIdaho]

4. Right Wing Populism takes root

In the Republican National Cult. They would happily see half of their own kind dead if it meant destroying America.

[C_U_L8R]

5. They're already doing it.

Enough. It's time to torch their traitorous asses.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Yeah, I get it, Joe

I don’t think the problem is “the left.” My hope is that more moderates see the where the nurturing of rampant hatreds by RW actors has taken us and where it leads.

[peggysue2]

7. Steve Bannon telegraphed this message from the very start

Burn it down! Burn it all down!

Why? Because he wanted to rebuild the country in his own disheveled, greed-head image.

These seditionists haven't been playing/planning in the dark. This is sedition in broad daylight.

[ificandream]

8. Couldn't have said it better.

After "debating" with reich-wing nuts, it's true that they will stop at nothing.

[sanatanadharma]

9. They'd burn it down and call it good...

...because that is exactly what the founders wanted, they'd say.

I say public schools were created because people in the past did not want ignorant neighbors.

[Bristlecone]

10. Change would to "want to." They would then say "look what you made me do"

They are abusive on every level.

[JHB]

11. This is what these guys always get wrong

The left gets it (or at least some of us because there are multiple "Left"s).

We're not the ones who needed to be told that the Right is out to eliminate all opposition, and has been working at it for 50 years.

We're the people who were dismissed as being too "shrill", as going too far overboard.

There is nothing in that article that wasn't knowable 20-25-30 years ago.

I grew up in a conservative family. I was always exposed to the way conservatives take delight in despising the people they like to despise. The reaction I got trying to explain that to people was roughly the same as the reaction lefties got trying to warn the Kerry campaign about the impending Swift Boat Liars attack: roundly ignored, sometimes with patting themselves on the back about how they were so much smarter than amateurs.

Don't blame "the left" for not understanding the Right, blame the "center". They're the ones who always had an incentive to ignore the ugly parts.

[shrike3]

12. I disagree with his notion that Sanders would have beat Trump.

All through the campaign, Biden was labeled a socialist. Biden. Imagine what they would have done with Bernie.