For decades it's been the Cult of Reagan. But as objectionable as his policies were, he was always a capable politician, able to cut a deal, able to serve a version of the national interest. His level of corruption was in the normal range personally, but he was shitty at policing his greedy underlings, and so his administration produced a large number of corruption indictments. The cultists ignored it, allowed it, and it just got worse.
They tried to turn Dubya into a cult. Even got that Dominionist chosen-by-God bullshit going. But he was a weak canvas to project their baloney onto. He was corrupt on a grander scale than Reagan. He actually started a war just to privatize the war industry and help his enablers to guzzle the griftings. But at least it made the country temporarily stronger (before the inevitable fan-hittings made the country weaker and more isolated). I mean, yes, he left our enemies stronger, our moral stance in the world muddied, our allies befuddled, and the global chaos he created still spreading. But at least they were discernably pro-American fuckups. Republican support for Bush 2.0 was a failure of judgment, but not outright betrayal to our country itself.
But Don Donald is so easily detected as a hypocrite, so open about his corruption--literally stealing from vets out in the open, literally plundering the Republican party's funds for his personal gain, actually dissing our intel community while handing over intel and geopolitical advantages to the Russians who all-but-openly pushed for his election--they'd have to be braindead not to see through it. And yet they keep on conflating him with Jesus, keep on buying his demonstrably false claims about the election (not just provable lies, but downright idiotic lies), keep on giving money to him no matter how many times his rip-offs have been exposed.
There's 250 Republicans in Congress. Only two have the integrity to say enough is enough. They're just pathetic. They make me worry for this country's future in ways George W Dumbass and the Neocons never did.
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