Tuesday, January 23, 2024

"Loyalty" is a one-way street among MAGAites

I was literally in the middle of my Sunday broadcast when Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race and threw tacit support behind frontrunner Donald Trump. Given that DeSantis has been one of the most substantive, accomplished GOP executives to run for President in a long time, I don't doubt this decision was not arrived at easily. 


After Trump scored a decisive victory in Iowa last week, he correctly stated that the GOP race was effectively over and thus called for the party to unify in order to defeat the walking cadaver in the White House. With Trump's most formidable Republican challenger having stepped aside, certainly Trumpkins were ready to receive DeSantis and his supporters with open arms. Right????









And for those who reply to these examples with "Bah! Those are just Trump surrogates, not actually Trump himself!!," I'll leave you with this.

 




Y'see, it isn't "unity" that Trump et al desire. No, they demand fealty from day one, and if you don't bend the knee you'll be rhetorically flogged up until (and in some cases beyond) acquiescence. Gonna go out on a short sturdy limb here and suggest that isn't the most effective way to bring in moderate voters whom the Trump campaign is currently hemorrhaging. 


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