American Conservative Union chair and Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) organizer Matt Schlapp on Tuesday didn’t blink at a deranged rant from far-right Hungarian Prime Minister and CPAC speaker Viktor Orbán about different races mixing together.
CPAC Keeping Orbán As Keynote Speaker
EvenEspecially After Nazi-Esque Rant Against ‘Race Mixing’
FIFY!
(ETA: FRi!ST!!)
Viktor Orban is who the Republican party is.
Like-minded people think alike. They also act alike.
Still think some of us are getting hysterical and need to “calm down”? We aren’t sliding toward fascism, half the country is running full speed toward it while the other half is diddling themselves.
If CPAC doesn’t want race mixing “they should back to where they came from.”
Or, don’t let your children date anyone. Because your children may date someone who doesn’t look like you. (Which, looking at many CPAC delegates, is a good thing.)
None of this, however, was a concern for Schlapp.
“Let’s listen to the man speak,” Schlapp said on Tuesday, per Bloomberg. “We’ll see what he says.”
“And if people have a disagreement with something he says, they should raise it,” he added.
How very open-minded of Schlapp, how very magnanimous. But wasn’t it CPAC that denied space to the Log Cabin Republicans not so long ago?
They like jabbing their opponents and making them angry. They also like bilking their fans and allowing them to feel superior to someone else.
That is a very old hustle.
But most of us understand that we as a country (and Planet) have a lot of needed work to do to continue to make them habitable.
Within hours, Orbán had published his own letter, claiming to have “a zero-tolerance policy” toward anti-Semitism and racism. Hegedüs shot back with a second letter, invoking her parent’s experiences as Hungarian Holocaust survivors. Others died, she said, because too many people stayed silent when hate first emerged.
“That you are able to deliver an openly racist speech would not occur to me even in a nightmare,” marveled Hegedüs, who has been working for Orbán for over a decade.
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Better late than never?
Off topic, but not out of mind. An interesting discussion of the electoral count reform act. We need an open discussion of the issue and then a vote. It will help. Congress can/should do more than one thing at a time, despite what the Republicans are attempting to do. And I’m tired of all the “the Democrats can’t get anything done” trash, as I hope people recognize that Republicans can vote for Democratic policies but choose not to, preventing voting in the Senate. It is not that Democrats can’t govern, it’s that Republicans are preventing any progress at the expense and injustice to the entire country. I’d make this clear on a daily basis. There are no such things as moderate Republicans - just political bastards.
In fact, GOP leaders have been embracing the “great replacement” theory increasingly broadly in recent months, making it more mainstream as the party lurches further to the right post-Trump presidency.
A basket of replaceables damned well ought to be worried about getting replaced. Fuck yeah, let’s replace 'em all!
Or, they can do the Failed Confederacy thing and date only within the family.
Tell me again how Loving versus Virginia is settled law.
Can’t have a gop without mass hypocrisy.
Only until Uncle Clarence is dead. Then all bets are off.
I am sure that point would deeply concern Clarence Thomas if he deeply thought about it.
CPAC keeping Orbán even after he
eats a baby.
shoots Donald Trump Jr.
paints a swastika on the Grave of the Unknown Soldier.
Could somebody please shut that Overton Window? Getting damned chilly around here.
Even that can lead to surprises… Jefferson, Thomas… Thumond, Strom…
