US Rep Kristen McDonald Rivet called Democratic convention behavior “deeply troubling,” condemned antisemitism and booing of pro-Israel candidates
US Rep Kristen McDonald Rivet called Democratic convention behavior “deeply troubling,” condemned antisemitism and booing of pro-Israel candidates
I disagree with your first statement (the rest is fine). I think the Republican politicians didn’t believe their own lies for the longest time. Then we got the Tea Party and I firmly believe that among them were a ton of true believers. I think since, there are a bunch of true believers among the Republican politicians, though not really the leadership. In a way, the true believers are even more troubling.
What’s worse? A guy who doesn’t actually believe that immigrants are criminals but cynically pushes it to get votes which he converts into ways to enrich himself and his megadonors? Or the guy who fully believes that immigrants should be shoved into ovens and maybe tries to make a buck on the side? On the surface they both seem the same because realistically you would find similar outcomes to the policies each push but I think fundamentally they are different and the latter is much more dangerous than the former. A morally compromised self interested cynic can be reasoned with and might pull back when the horrors they enact on others becomes too great. A complete monster cannot be reasoned with for the worst horrors they could enact are truly what they desire.
I think we agree. In my first statement I had in mind the party elite, the kingmakers who are actually in charge of the party direction and of the nobodies from small districts who they hand-pick for a larger national presence. We have already seen how small are the Marjorie Taylor Greens, how easily they are elevated then discarded. They are basically pawns. So are virtually all US politicians. Many of the 435 representatives in the House are on the same political level as the weather person on the local news. True-believers may be as loud as they would like, as long as they don’t tug on the leash.