Dowd: "I actually think the NRA doesn't matter anymore because they put a virus in America..."

[Nevilledog]

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.@matthewjdowd: "I actually think the NRA doesn't matter anymore because they put a virus in America, in part of America, and if the NRA disappeared that virus is still sitting in America."


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9:20 PM · May 27, 2022

[Hekate]

1. That's the way I feel about Trumpism: if Trump were to drop dead tomorrow, Trumpism would live on

There’s a sickness that’s been unleashed in our society; it took a long time to fully manifest since Reagan et al. dropped their poison in the communal well, but it’s here and now full-blown. Like the Black Death or cancer, it’s killing people.

[Nevilledog]

2. Absofuckinglutely. The rot has taken hold.

[Rebl2]

4. That's how it feels

to me. It started in the early eighties w/Reagan and has gotten so much worse since then.

[agingdem]

8. Trump is the culmination of decades of Republican rot...

Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon gave rise to Republican treachery without consequence...Reagan>Iran-Contra/state's rights... John McCain>the Keating Five, Bush/Cheney>Iraq debacle...and now Trump>overt racism, corruption on a massive scale, treason, sedition, insurrection..and today's supporting cast: McConnell, Cruz, Graham, Hawley, Cotton, McCarthy, Jordan, Gaetz, Greene, Boebert, Gosar, Abbott, DeSantis et al....to paraphrase Billy Joel.."Trump didn't start the fire, it was always burning..."

[Cosmocat]

10. Along w the right wing echo chamber

COUNTLESS hateful people have made a nice living spewing their poison on AM radio, writing books, the endless conferences ....

45 never would have existed had it not been a quarter century of these people tearing this country down.

[callous taoboy]

9. Trumpism took hold in my family and destroyed it-

I'm not being maudlin, here. I don't know my brothers any more. I detest what they believe in.

[captain queeg]

3. The NRA's main function is to channel vast amounts of money to RW politicians who are in Putin's

Pocket. I think back in 2016 many of them
Might not have realized who was funding them. But even after they found out they wouldn’t admit it. I believe that’s at the core when we’d wonder what trump had on various people who might have resisted him at one time, but rolled over once they got a talking to by their masters.

[PSPS]

6. As far as the GOP is concerned, you're right. They are a conduit for kremlin and other foreign money

[JI7]

5. I agree, it's part of the culture of Racism in this country. Opposition to Gun Control is connected

to racism .

[betsuni]

7. And if the NRA stopped all Republican campaign contributions today, Republicans would still never

support gun control. As if the only reason they won't support gun control is money. The radical ideological virus is the reason.