the right wing believes in loyalty to the right wing, particularly as embodied by donnie and the republican party.
everything else is a b.s. excuse, a post facto rationalization.
they cycle through various justifications until they find one that lets them get away with deciding the way that want.
thou shalt not kill a fetus is an absolute; but a momentary fear when holding a gun, kill kill kill!
the state can control what a pregnant woman eats, what activities she does, what medical procedures she has, but they can't tell a business anything.
hypocrisy requires shame. it requires that it's possible to confront someone and they'd have to admit that yeah, i did something inconsistent with my philosophies. republicans never do that, because the "philosophies" they talk about are just pretexts. more propaganda to let them get away with ruling however they please.
*everything* about the constitution, its construction, the federalist papers, early statements from our founders, *everything* says they wanted to avoid a tyrant as the number one priority of the structure of our government. there's nothing to base the idea that the president is special or exempt in any way. they could not possibly have wanted a president to commit crimes, they could not possibly have wanted a president to be able to then pardon himself, they could not possibly have wanted a president to be above the law.
european settlers fled nations with such monarchical powers. they did not at all want to establish anything like that.
for a quarter of a millenium, this was readily understood by everyone. there's no philosophy that gets you there other than hey, we want to establish a dictatorship.
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