We need to remember that the racists and xenophobes were on board with Trump from the beginning. His birtherism and “Mexicans are rapists and murderers” speech got their support long before Bannon officially joined the campaign. Bannon and Conway, with the Mercer backing, just added more discipline to the candidate and toned down the blatant racism so he became more acceptable to the mainstream Rs and others who wanted to blow up the status quo. Unfortunately for the country, that was enough votes to get him elected president.
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The Food for Champions…
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Isn’t King engaging in the very rhetoric that reportedly has irked Trump - by likening Bannon as the key to his success - how far away is that from “President Bannon” memes. Idiot - the ultimate anti-persuader.
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What about the Cabinet Sec’s? Crooks and a couple of generals?
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remember they were part of the Cruz team first
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It must be time consuming to have beliefs.
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Precisely, but that is just Steve King being Steve King.
I wonder how long it takes for Donald to apprehend it ? He probably wakes up in the middle of the night “Hey, what did he mean by that ?”
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Does King have a talk radio show? He sounds like somebody trying to pump his ratings among the Fox demographic.
Lynchpins have nothing to do with lynching, it’s a very old and commonly used term. Of course, one wonders if Mr. King knows this.
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Grifting Congressman has to keep pumping up the fringe for campaign grifting.
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So it wasn’t a typo after all. Most of us use the common spelling “Linchpin” and assumed “Lynchpin” was some sort of Freudian slip. Thanks for the correction.
The mostly closeted racist and other disaffected riff-raff that supported the Donald were not enough to “win” the election for him without him also winning the majority of voters who historically have supported GOP candidates, who now will vote for the GOP even if they come to favor eating babies as long as they still oppose abortion. The Donald didn’t come close to winning the popular vote and most of these fringe voters will not be there in 2018 and certainly not in 2020. In spite of the EC results for 2016, demographics are against him/them.
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spelling ain’t real big in iowa.
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Poor Steve King.
He knows too many of his racist supporters have outed themselves, and may not have the cover of Trump/Bannon much longer.
Even worse from their standpoint …foiled by a Jew, Kushner.
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The preferred spelling is “linchpin,” but I share your assumption about how Steve King would go right to the alternate spelling.
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You ain’t seen nothing yet.
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I’m going with Freudian slip. I suspect that a sepia-drenched, blood-tinged longing to return to the days of lynching and mob violence is never far from Republican thoughts.
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So let’s lynchpin him.
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And, if other Republican hypocrites are an example, that Freudian slip has a matching Freudian bustier and Freudian garter belt in the dresser drawer with it.
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“Conservatives are an endangered species in your White House.”
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose conservative by any other name . . .” This may be the only time I will ever agree with Steve King. There are no traditional conservatives in the White House and they are an endangered species in the GOP. The name has been misappropriated by the gaggle of nihilists and disaffected people of all persuasions who have chosen to congregate in the GOP Big Tent. The country would be well served if a conservative party were to emerge from the ashes of the GOP Drumpster fire and we could get back to the reasoned debate and compromise that should inform our governance. Unfortunately, the cynic in me does not see that as the likely outcome of the hard core partisan politics embraced by McConnell, Ryan, and the Freedom Caucus.
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