Posted on 08/12/2020 3:43:48 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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The lead sentence in an article in The New York Times on Tuesday was a bizarre, if fitting, encapsulation of the state of American politics today: "Conspiracy theorists won a major victory on Tuesday...."
In some ways, it's as if the inmates are now running the asylum. Trump effectively turned the GOP into a padded-cell madhouse where up could be down, left could be right and blue could be green...if he decided so. And now the fringiest adherents have swiped the keys from the few remaining guards that were hoping to keep the place in order.
That Trump has been able to do this falls squarely on the shoulders of the Republican Party, which allows these baseless theories to run rampant and unchecked -- and has refused to prevent its party from being transformed into a safe haven for quacks, bigots and ignoramuses.
Being a Republican today is more synonymous with White nationalism, anti-science, and conspiracy theories than any clear set of principles or policies. So long as you suck up to Trump, today's "Republican" doesn't have to really believe in or support anything else.
The GOP's tacit and in many cases explicit support of these kinds of candidates and political appointees -- not to mention the President -- has stripped all meaning away from the party name.
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“The inmates are running the asylum.”
Pot calling kettle black right there.
has refused to prevent its party from being transformed into a safe haven for quacks, bigots and ignoramuses.
I think she left out deplorables, nazis, and Hitler.
Oh, I see she got to that in another paragraph.
It is amazing to me that these people think the democrats
are the paragon of virtue...
So these campaign adds put out by CNN, how much do they charge for them?
She is not even that good a propagandist.
D-Cup can KMA.
S.E. Cupp is nothing more than a two bit whore.
And I guess I am a racist white nationalist because I don't want looting, squatting, violence,vandalism, mob rule, and absolution from COVID-19 rules simply because of your skin color.
And conspiracy theories. Like the Obama-FBI-CIA coup? That conspiracy?
Anyone else exorcist spinning in their desk chair cause the can’t comment on this article?
A very rabid case of TDS.
Just wait till he starts his 2nd term...LOL
All this idiot does is regurgitate the same old talking points.
Cupp has fallen off the cliff; I don’t know what happened to her.
Ugh, not Stewpit Eejit Cupp again.
Okay, so if a crazy person calls you crazy, doesn’t that make you sane? Just sayin...
You be missin da BARF LERT homie!
She’s just a bitter woman that hasn’t been laid in a long long time.
Those might be E-Cup; just dreaming...
Cupp was once an actual, reasonable journalist. Not sure what happened to her.
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