There's this crazy institutional gaslighting that's going down full swing throughout the GOP and especially on the margins. Q conspiracy madness aside, personal idiocy (voter, politicians) aside, more than ever during my lifetime, representatives of the GOP are saying one thing, doing the opposite, and shifting blame on a very specific, localized/micro level. While it's maddening to watch, all I see it doing is further radicalizing those who have been on the way. Folks/media on the liberal spectrum have been anticipating the collapse of the GOP, but what I imagine will unfold has already begun with the Dems taking in members of the GOP who, so to say, toe the line and those once on the "fringe," vocal proponents of the more overt than ever sexist, racist, violent right movement will consolidate their power electorally and with actions like the attack in the Capitol last week. I'm not saying that the attack was a group effort, but so-called lone wolf actions have rippling effects and influence- Anyone recall the threat of "sl eeper-c ells" following 9/11 and the Patriot Act?
What I'm getting at is that for members of increasingly radicalized, extremest right wing grassroots movements, continued failures from their leaders (or what they see as attacks on their leaders) aren't going to be seen as grossly ironic or hypocritical, but will rather serve as motivating factors for greater right wing activism.
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