"Covering the hypocrisy of the Trump right is a full-time beat these days. 'Law and order' Republicans now embrace insurrectionists. Those who decried 'cancel culture' now ban books and history lessons. Conservatives who supported 'tort reform' now enshrine the rights of private citizens to sue one another. A party that welcomed libertarians now has officials incentivizing people to report on their neighbors. Onetime Cold Warriors now sympathize with Putin.
"The inconsistency over street protests is particularly black and white.
"When a convoy of White people in trucks promotes chaos and lawlessness on the northern border, Republican officials call them heroes, and former president Donald Trump invites them to the United States. When a caravan of Brown people on foot posed a remote chance of chaos and lawlessness on the southern border in 2018, Trump called in the military to protect against the 'MANY CRIMINALS.'
"When
(predominantly White) crowds protest for the right to ignore public
health rules in mostly peaceful but occasionally violent and highly
disruptive actions, Republican officials hail the glory of civil
disobedience. When (heavily Black) crowds protested for racial justice
in mostly peaceful but occasionally violent and highly disruptive
actions, Trump called them 'rioters, looters and anarchists' not to mention 'terrorists,' 'arsonists' and 'violent mobs.'" -- Dana Milbank, on the full-time hypocrisy beat of the rotted out, fascist Republican Party. But, we're beyond hypocrisy. Their brand has been forever changed: Trump is the party, the party is Trump.
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