The Questions You Won’t Hear at the GOP Debate
The GOP debate is tomorrow. You’re forgiven if the race for second place didn’t make your watch schedule.
For the sake of ratings and fake normalcy, the moderators will pretend this is a regular presidential debate.
They’ll pretend these candidates have real policy positions and they’ll pretend that the base is actually interested in the nuances of Desantis’ and Ramaswamy’s immigration policies (one wants to invade our Southern neighbor and the other wants to launch airstrikes – don’t let anyone tell you that the GOP has any sense of reason left.)
The point is, no candidate on stage tomorrow will answer the actual questions facing the Republican Party.
Do you stand with Trump’s open fascism?
What crime could Trump commit that deserves a prison sentence?
Do you believe the United States should let authoritarians invade sovereign countries?
How about the shutdown Trump wants in an attempt to defund his prosecutors?
They won’t answer those questions because they either don’t care or they know their voters don’t care. That’s the point of a cult. There’s no real internal disagreement. It’s the whims of the deranged MAGA base.
-The Lincoln Project