Dan Rather: MAGA Meltdown

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://steady.substack.com/p/maga-meltdown?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

It is all so predictable, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t shocking.

Bad faith stampedes across American democracy.

Hypocrisy oozes and drips over our national discourse.

False equivalence muddies the stark choices we face.

President Joe Biden had to know that when he gave a speech on Thursday bluntly and unambiguously delineating an undeniable truth (that Donald Trump and his legions of MAGA Republicans pose an existential threat to the governance of the United States) that the response would be fury, lies, and a convenient amnesia — indeed, outright gaslighting, over everything we have witnessed in American politics over the past six years.

It serves no purpose to list with specificity the talking points that Republican elected officials and their amplifiers in right-wing media have trotted out in the two days since. They can be categorized generally as: How dare he? How dare he say we are against democracy? How dare he use such tough language? How dare he single us out?

Biden’s response to that is the very rationale for the speech: How could I not?

Complacency in the face of what we are confronting is not an option.

Mincing words to appease a contorted view of “balance” and “fairness” when the other side long ago abandoned any pretense of those values means obscuring the truth.

To not name the threat with crystal clarity — as Biden said, “you can’t love your country only when you win” — is to risk losing the country and what it represents completely.

To remain silent is to jeopardize who the vast majority of Americans believe we are as a people and whom we aspire to become.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Just starting, actually. The meltdown will be continuing thru 2022 and into 2024.

The post 2022 Republican debacle will be 2 years worth of political fratricide - The Always Trumpers vs. Whatever's left of the GOP. Hoping for the perfect split.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. American fascists...

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[czarjak]

3. Satisfaction. If they can't have theirs, nobody else gets theirs either?