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SE Cupp: Trump effectively turned the GOP into a padded-cell madhouse
Of course, DUers are aware the GOP was headed in that direction even before Trump was elected, but he's certainly made it more obvious.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/opinions/qanon-candidate-inmates-running-asylum-cupp/index.html
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The corruption and co-opting of the Republican Party by conspiracy theorists, anti-science promoters, White nationalists and kooks is becoming more total with every passing day.
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This is all in no small part thanks to President Trump, the Conspiracy Theorist in Chief.
From his promotion of Obama birtherism, to his continued and baseless belief that Covid-19 will miraculously disappear, to his praise for a doctor who's pushed theories on alien DNA and "demon sperm," he's worked very hard to normalize what would otherwise be known as utter lunacy. And it's had the intended effect down-ballot.
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.
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The corruption and co-opting of the Republican Party by conspiracy theorists, anti-science promoters, White nationalists and kooks is becoming more total with every passing day.
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This is all in no small part thanks to President Trump, the Conspiracy Theorist in Chief.
From his promotion of Obama birtherism, to his continued and baseless belief that Covid-19 will miraculously disappear, to his praise for a doctor who's pushed theories on alien DNA and "demon sperm," he's worked very hard to normalize what would otherwise be known as utter lunacy. And it's had the intended effect down-ballot.
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.
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