I respectfully disagree that the MAGA Republicans are more welcoming of dissenting ideas. If this was true why was Liz Chaney expelled? Why did Bob Corker and Jeff Flake lose their jobs? Personally living in Texas, I encounter MAGA daily. You must agree with them in total or you are a suspected "woke liberal". I think Van went a little o…
I respectfully disagree that the MAGA Republicans are more welcoming of dissenting ideas. If this was true why was Liz Chaney expelled? Why did Bob Corker and Jeff Flake lose their jobs? Personally living in Texas, I encounter MAGA daily. You must agree with them in total or you are a suspected "woke liberal". I think Van went a little overboard on this; however, extreme left wingers can be just as bad.
I think this is a good point. To me it seems that the only thing you can't say on the right is anything anti-MAGA. They'll take any crackpot from anywhere on the political spectrum as long as they don't say anything against Trump or anything in the MAGA-verse. This isn't a true free speech position, and Musk's "free speech absolutism" on Twitter/X (which has been anything but) is a perfect example. And, you are correct that the extreme left is just as bad.
If there's any disagreement, especially on facts, then you're not just told being wrong but you're a traitor. And that capturered the GOP.
And even Trump isn't immune for that. He tried to brag about the Operation Warp speed (which was genuinenly a great accomplishment) got booed and proved his antivax creds by appointing RFK jr.
I respectfully disagree that the MAGA Republicans are more welcoming of dissenting ideas. If this was true why was Liz Chaney expelled? Why did Bob Corker and Jeff Flake lose their jobs? Personally living in Texas, I encounter MAGA daily. You must agree with them in total or you are a suspected "woke liberal". I think Van went a little overboard on this; however, extreme left wingers can be just as bad.
I think this is a good point. To me it seems that the only thing you can't say on the right is anything anti-MAGA. They'll take any crackpot from anywhere on the political spectrum as long as they don't say anything against Trump or anything in the MAGA-verse. This isn't a true free speech position, and Musk's "free speech absolutism" on Twitter/X (which has been anything but) is a perfect example. And, you are correct that the extreme left is just as bad.
Exactly.
If there's any disagreement, especially on facts, then you're not just told being wrong but you're a traitor. And that capturered the GOP.
And even Trump isn't immune for that. He tried to brag about the Operation Warp speed (which was genuinenly a great accomplishment) got booed and proved his antivax creds by appointing RFK jr.