There is nothing quite as predictable as an elite writer (looking at you Conor Friedersdorf) telling other people that the cover band of Trump is worth a listen. Full disclosure, I think Libertarians are, for the most part, selfish assholes. The majority of the party is male, white, under 50, mainline protestant, and so beyond circumstan…
There is nothing quite as predictable as an elite writer (looking at you Conor Friedersdorf) telling other people that the cover band of Trump is worth a listen. Full disclosure, I think Libertarians are, for the most part, selfish assholes. The majority of the party is male, white, under 50, mainline protestant, and so beyond circumstances affecting them that they don't really give a damn about anybody else, (save their own families, and I wouldn't swear to that). I have been reading him since he got a contributing gig on Andrew Sullivan's original blog (The Dish).
My frustration though is fully from 20 years before guys like Conor hit the scene. When the R's went all in for using God, Guns and Gays as their rallying cry. What was so noble in that? The demagoguing has been going on for decades with the wink, wink, nod, nod to the racists and the homophobes and every other lowlife that reliably pulled the lever for the R's.
I guess you could go all the way back to the Southern Strategy but In my opinion, Rush Limbaugh was the beginning of the end for the Republicans. He was the devil with which the deal was made. Fox added jet fuel, then Glenn Beck, then Alex Jones, then every other nutter that saw there were Benjamins to be made. DeSantis is just picking about a baton that has been passed since the 80's.
There is nothing quite as predictable as an elite writer (looking at you Conor Friedersdorf) telling other people that the cover band of Trump is worth a listen. Full disclosure, I think Libertarians are, for the most part, selfish assholes. The majority of the party is male, white, under 50, mainline protestant, and so beyond circumstances affecting them that they don't really give a damn about anybody else, (save their own families, and I wouldn't swear to that). I have been reading him since he got a contributing gig on Andrew Sullivan's original blog (The Dish).
My frustration though is fully from 20 years before guys like Conor hit the scene. When the R's went all in for using God, Guns and Gays as their rallying cry. What was so noble in that? The demagoguing has been going on for decades with the wink, wink, nod, nod to the racists and the homophobes and every other lowlife that reliably pulled the lever for the R's.
I guess you could go all the way back to the Southern Strategy but In my opinion, Rush Limbaugh was the beginning of the end for the Republicans. He was the devil with which the deal was made. Fox added jet fuel, then Glenn Beck, then Alex Jones, then every other nutter that saw there were Benjamins to be made. DeSantis is just picking about a baton that has been passed since the 80's.
Faustian bargains and their cost...........
You left out Newt.