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We Support Trump Because You Made Us LOL

It's your fault that normie Republicans are making their peace with Trump 2.0.

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We had a pretty good TNB last night. Covered a lot of ground and even got a little philosophical about the roots of fascism and communism. TL;DR: I argued that a century later we’re still living in the world made by the Great War.

You can watch the show here or listen to the podcast version here.


Graffiti mixed with an anti-Trump poster and other ephemera affixed to a wall create a collaborative street art collage in the Chelsea district of New York City. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

1. You Made Us Support Trump

One of the things you have heard in the past from anti-anti-Trump types is that they didn’t want to support Trump. But they had to. Because [TBD] made them.

This TBD has taken many forms:

  • Hillary

  • BLM

  • Drag queen story hours

And that’s fine, I guess. I mean if you sincerely believe that drag queen story hours are more important than the peaceful transition of power or America remaining in NATO, you do you. At least it’s an ethos.

But there’s another set of TBD rationalizations which goes something like this:

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