Kyle’s a smart guy …
CNN PRETENDS GOP Is Split Between Trump & Liz Cheney
… for the first six minutes.
About that point, he starts to analyze and pontificate, about why so many Americans are still, after all that’s happened, still on Trump’s side. More people voted for him, remember, in 2020 over 2016. It was just a few swing states that let Biden win anyway.
Kyle says that people are still with Trump, maybe because:
–It’s all an ego battle;
–Trump support is a cult;
–They love that he’s arrogant and brash, and;
–They love that he’s ‘a culture warrior’, and the Culture War overrides everything else.
The last two are a little bit on point, but in my view you can say it better in fewer words.
Seventy million Americans are still hardcore Trump because they still think he stands outside the Machine.
Events since the start of the year, most notably the storming of the Capitol and the resulting second failed impeachment, only confirm that for them. His being banned from social media only confirms that for them.
Close to half of all Americans hate the Institutions that govern them so very much, that they’ll gratefully support a lying, adulterous, evil old cretin, as long as they can continue to fool themselves into believing that he’s not just another fucking sellout politician like Liz Cheney or Ted Cruz or Nancy Pelosi or god help us, AOC now too.
I’ll tell you right now, that if I could possibly believe that Trump was a real outsider, and not the brain-damaged tool of Capital that he really is–even I would vote for him, over Biden or a Clinton or (knowing what I know now) poor old compromised Bernie.
This is how fascism happens, people.
The System and the media who cover it are so corrupt, and so unjust, and so smug and nakedly self-servingly greedy that half of Americans would vote for Il Duce or Adolf Himself, so long as they could believe that the new Leader would burn it to the fucking ground and start over.
People are dying all around us, inside themselves or just literally, because the System would rather prop up evil all around the world (including in every American city through the mechanism of the police) than provide basic health care or housing or even a subsystem of wage slavery that is moderately fair and just to their own pitiful mobs of the demos.
These Trump people have lived it. They know it in their bones. The capital Machine doesn’t give two fucks whether We the People live or die. The apparatchiks got theirs.
Everyone else gets a shit sandwich, if they’re lucky. Or if not, they get fucked in the ass and then called deplorable for feeling resentment toward their rapists.
A ballot marked for Trump, or a MAGA hat is what a person with no power at all does as a protest vote. It’s all they have.
Maybe some of them are broken enough to be cultists.
But for every Q-Anon mental patient, there are five or six people who have absolutely no way of registering their displeasure with the people who are killing them than to say, yeah, I’m still behind the Donald.
Something like 15 percent of black men in this country voted for an open racist. Why do you think that might be?
I propose that just as is the case with their redneck neighbors, they see no other way out, or anything they can do, to express the hate they feel for their institutionally-approved slavemasters.
We the enlightened can preach to them all day long about how irrational, or dumb, or against their own interests that expression is.
It seems very nearly sane, to me.