Discussion: Conservative Pundit Owns Up To Role In Trump’s Rise: We 'Created This Monster’

This is always how the GOP discovers self-reflection: when it hurts them or someone they love.

The only pro-LGBTQ GOPers are the ones with a gay family member, like Cheney.

GOP Senator Pete Domenichi only pushed for mental health care funding when a family member was hurting from it.

Governor Chris Christie started pushing for less jail time and more rehab for drug addicts after a close friend died of an overdose.

They only care about how an issue affects people after it affects them. They lack the imagination to see and feel the impact unless it’s close.

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“When this is all over, we have to go back. There’s got to be a reckoning on all this…"

Sure. When this is all over, the Clinton Administration starts. I just fucking bet you’re going to be up to some deep soul searching when Senate Majority Leader Warren is trying to fill a SCOTUS vacancy.

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Demonizing the media is one part. The other part is the demonizing of all opponents to a point where a good-faith compromise is seen as total failure or even treasonous. And the worst part of that is they used racism as a tactic to achieve that.

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And this was a surprise? Some of us knew that this was likely to happen a decade or two ago. And we weren’t given any magic gene for predictions.

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Not to mention that this guy’s had a lot of time on MSNBC talking about his opposition to trump and it’s all too little too late. He’d never had gotten that gig if it hadn’t been for trump.

@greycardinal I was with you til you got Senate Majority Leader Warren. It’s been presumed to be Schumer of NY for a long time. He’s in the senate leadership behind Reid and Durbin, he’s got the seniority, the backing, etc.

@brooklyndweller The RNC changed its primary schedule in 2014 after Mittens lost so badly in 2012. They frontloaded Southern states knowing there’d be a big turnout for an R candidate, and what they got was a racist, uninformed turnout they couldn’t have imagined.

@dwward Sometime it’s overlooked but Bill Clinton beat Poppy bush, and that’s approximately when the hatred and sliming of any future Democratic candidate began. Hillary was also part of the investigation in the House into Nixon’s wrongdoings which of course led to his impeachment. Add this to the list of grievances Rs have compiled over the years. It’s all about putting a white R male back in the White House.

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Bet you wish you hadn’t insulted the “RINOs” you will need to rebuild.

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The 19th Amendment people, maybe there’s something they can do. You tell me.

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She’s baaaccckkkk…

Katrina Pierson claims reporters ‘literally beat’ Trump’s supporters

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Perhaps the 21st.

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More than two decades old, The Drudge Report hits a new traffic high

Sure, everybody likes to look at train wrecks…

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bookmarks this article, so I can go back to it in the future.

When acosted by Bernie or bust purists?

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Got anything to say about demonizing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Mr. Sykes?

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Trump is just a symptom.

Totally on point. You got it. Rump wasn’t chosen by the GOP establishment; he was chosen by what makes up the true White Nationalist GOP base.

Hopefully, Sykes is smart enough to realize that the day of reckoning isn’t Nov. 8th but Nov. 9th and beyond.

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There’s got to be a reckoning

Hear. hear…Madame President, may I suggest a Department of Information?

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in a way, both

That statement should be considered Erickson’s ‘come to Jesus’ moment. I’m bookmarking on account that he will eventually mock this ‘spiritual’ discovery.

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‘perhaps we pushed too hard on issues and held too many people to many promises we took more literally than we should’…

OR PERHAPS you didn’t hold ‘some’ people accountable for the lies they told.

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“They used … sarcasm…”

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and that’s why I bookmarked this article. If anyone thought that ‘crash tv’ with Obama as the supposed pinata was exciting…get ready for a replay of the 90’s.

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Syke’s probably got his tighty whitey’s in a bundle when there was a riot in sleepy old (segregated ) Milwaukee.

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Time to revisit this – so prescient:

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