"...Believing that the Republican electorate is full of fine, upstanding citizens who love civic virtue is willful blindness. Republican voters want someone to break stuff and have fun doing it. The only reason Ron DeSantis is struggling is that when he breaks stuff -- including people -- he doesn't really seem to being having fun. So of course Trump has been leading in the polls, DeSantis is second but trailing badly, and all the candidates who still maintain a surface politeness (while largely sharing the same political beliefs as DeSantis and Trump) are in single digits..." -- Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog, on how Trump is the Republican electorate, and the Republican electorate is Trump.
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"...[T]he more disturbing thing is that the country is not in fact going to come apart at all in any foreseeable future: Instead we are going to have a kind of low-level very informal civil war for many decades to come, as Red America and Blue America increasingly come to the conclusion that they don’t want to live with each other any more, but can find no way, either practically or emotionally, to break up.
We’re in an old-style Catholic marriage with the fascists, and that relationship is going to become as impossibly bitter as that kind of arrangement becomes, when neither party can stand the other any more, but there’s still no way out." -- Paul Campos at LGM on the "delusional fetishists" of the Timothy McVeigh variety that populate the Republican/ Christofascist/ Shooters Party, from top to bottom.
