The Republican leader told POLITICO that his critics "had their shot" already. But conservatives are not done whacking him over the immigration-for-Ukraine aid implosion.

The Republican leader told POLITICO that his critics “had their shot” already. But conservatives are not done whacking him over the immigration-for-Ukraine aid implosion.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
    271·
    5 months ago

    GOP voters have turned over the last two decades from a traditional type of elector, who casts votes and lends political power to a candidate for something. The average GOP voter in 2024 is voting against something. These things they oppose are often imagined or maliciously designed and when real, are almost always dishonestly portrayed in scale and scope.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        You’re absolutely right, but the part that puzzles me (and maybe it shouldn’t) is why they never, ever consider how it can be possible that they themselves are miraculously exempt, and will somehow always be exempt, from harmful government exclusions and actions.

        They casually say shit like “He’s hurting the wrong people!” and easily applaud the loss of benefits and rights for others, without ever casting a brain cell at the possibility that they themselves are The Right People to harm – just as soon as their own idiocy is no longer useful in wiping away every citizen’s rights.

    • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      Some of them are just dumb and hateful enough to want The Jerry Springer Congressional Show to continue. And grifters like Greene and Fivehead know this.