2/27/21: Cleanup on Aisle 45 may turn out to be harder than anticipated. At the Conservative Political Action Convention this week, the nuts were falling from all kinds of trees. Pecans. Walnuts.
Anti-Semites for sure.
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“Denying truth, denying fact, denying reality.”
Rep. Mickey Edwards, on the current state of
the Republican Party
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We even had a “golden calf” sighting, which you might think would freak out Christian Evangelicals.
But no.
First, the anti-Semites (including an alarming percentage of
the QAnon nuts). The right-wing media star Young Pharaoh got the ax even before he could appear, after social media
posts showed he had labeled Judaism a “complete lie” and a religion “made up
for political gain.” Ironically, conservatives at CPAC were going to discuss,
among other topics, left-wing “cancel culture.” Now they had to cancel one of
their own. Young Pharaoh responded, in a Trump-like, all-caps post, that he
still did not “BELIEVE IN THE VALIDITY” of Judaism.
All the kooks came out to play. You had Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, believer in Jewish banker-controlled lasers firing at redwood trees from outer space. Alex Berenson, famous for insisting that the threat of COVID-19 was overblown (see: 2/26/21), was a featured speaker. In the spirit of Trumpian conservatism, when reminded to wear masks, many in attendance jeered and hacked up phlegm in sixteen compass directions. Representatives Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona, both organizers of the ill-fated “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6, were members of important panels. Even better, there was much gnashing of teeth (and plenty of threats of civil war) in regard to the imaginary theft of the November election.
I think Trump spoke, as well. To be honest, I don’t care. The
level of toxic stupidity that prevailed at CPAC was epitomized when someone
rolled in a golden image of the Rejected-President himself.
The former chair of CPAC, Rep.
Mickey Edwards, offered up this obituary for the GOP that once there was. As he
explained to CNN:
The Republican party really no
longer stands for any kind of principles, conservative or otherwise. The
party seems now to be completely following the lead of one man wherever he
goes, which is the definition of a cult. Now all that matters is, “Trump is for
this, we’re for this.” And that includes denying truth, denying fact, denying
reality. It’s such a disconnect from what’s really happened in the world.
POSTSCRIPT: The Nebraska Republican Party voted today to express displeasure with U.S. Senator Ben Sasse. Thirteen grievances
were included in a resolution, including supporting Trump’s impeachment, but
also failing “to take any meaningful action” to repeal and replace Obamacare.
This
is surprising, since Trump and the rest of his sycophant pals had four years
to come up with their own healthcare plan.
An
early draft of a proposed censure vote, which was later withdrawn also complained
that Sen. Sasse “has persistently engaged in public acts of ridicule and calumny
against President Donald J. Trump.”
Again, rather ironic – since ridicule and calumny were just
about the only tools in Trump’s toolbox for the last five years.
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