The GOP Has Chosen Unity Behind a Lie Rather Than Facing the Truth

If the GOP were a country I think simplicity would be its primary export.

Lots of GOP members hate Trump, and they hate what he did on January 6th, but they hate complexity more. They hate internal conflict within the GOP more. They hate uncertainty more. They hate nuance more.

They need a simple, clear message that’s unburdened by the messiness of reality.

Fox News sells the same thing.

White people in middle America aren’t suffering because they’ve lost The Immigrant Mindset, or because of globalization and automation—no—they’re suffering because of non-whites taking their jobs and those damn liberals.

That’s an easy narrative. GOP types prefer easy narratives. The moment you start adding complexity and nuance their brains go fuzzy.

So Liz Cheney, who by all accounts is not a nice person, is being jettisoned from the Death Eaters for the crime of speaking out against Voldemort.

Liz With Voldemort and The Death Eaters at a 2020 Campaign Event in Idaho

Why? Because Trump being both good and bad is, “Hard for Bonk Bonk to understand!”, therefore if he’s good, and someone else says he did something bad…, “Bonk Bonk say they bad instead!”

Lindsey Graham evidently said recently, “there’s no direction forward for the GOP without President Trump”.

Well that settles it then. That’s the choice that’s being made. And it’s remarkably simple too.

if trump_is_only_hope = true   {     anyone_badmouthing_trump = enemy;   }

It doesn’t get much cleaner than that.

So Trump can literally do anything now, to the GOP, or in the name of the GOP, and they will support him. Because they know without him they are finished as a party.

The fact that they can’t stand him? A minor point. The fact that they’re disgusted with themselves for needing him? An ancillary detail.

The fact that he’s still claiming the current United States government is illegitimate, and that he will make this his main campaign message in 2024?

No problem. The alternative is Civil War within the GOP and someone weak being selected in the primary that has no chance against Biden.

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So they back Voldemort while vomiting in their own mouths.

Simple. Elegant. Like Making America Great Again.

The GOP is basically becoming a terrorist organziation, but not of their own will. Out of fear.

They’re terrified of what He will do when He returns, if someone tells Him that they were unloyal in his absence. So they rock back and forth, repeating a simple message:

Liz was dumb to go against him. Principled? Maybe. On this small point of insurrection perhaps.

But the last thing will see and hear is about to be a flash of green light and the words, “Avada Kedavra”.