Nah. They are past masters at looking innocent while saying “you did not just see me doing what you just saw me doing” It is crazy making , but their idiotic base will believe it every time.
This shitty reichwing “legislature” in NC has just about turned a State that used to be somewhat progressive into a damn Evangelical Camp Meeting. There are a lot of OLD men whose past was basically KKK, and a bunch of younger men (and a few asskissing women) who have jumped on the bandwagon because the stupid rural voters in NC truly believe that god is a fucking Republican.
Because their “preacher” and therefore Geeeeesus told them so.
I fear you are exactly right…But I intend to keep hoping that, some day, this, which is now the obvious conclusion, wlll be at least just a little bit wrong!
Since clearly not every person who voted for Trump and the congressional Republicans is full-on MAGA – or even MAGA at all, in some cases I’m aware of – I feel that my hope is not entirely misplaced…At least not over the long term!