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THE THREE RULES MAGA REPUBLICANS LIVE BY

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]McCarthy’s problem is the same as every single aspect of the legacy GOP and the gentry conservative media. They’re all perfectly conscious of the depravity and danger posed by the MAGA iteration of the Republican Party. They live by three rules:

First, live a double life. Pretend to donors you’re from GOP 1.0, telling them behind closed doors it’s you or the bloody-handed MAGA horde. “Hey we gotta pass a tax cut and protect carried interest deductions, and you won’t get that with Speaker Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

In public, lick Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Bradypusian feet, proclaiming they taste as if she danced through a field of honeysuckle. This dance will end soon because they won’t NEED McCarthy, and he’s too slow to get it.

But the double life is all they’ve got to keep the sane major donor types funding the committees. Again, this illusion is coming to a halt soon, because of Trump’s sadism, the swelling ranks of MAGA types, and their dedication to nihilist spectacle. The fall of the House of Kevin is going to be spectacular.

Second, pretend the only path to conservative victories is through a compromise with evil. “Hey, we know they’re leopards, but what’s having your face eaten off if we get our regulatory relief?”

None of the things they claim once mattered, matter. Rule of law? For thee, not me. Integrity? Please. The Constitution? Just the fun parts, please! Fiscal probity? They spent like sailors in a discount whorehouse during Trump, so spare me. “We had to compromise with evil” because of what? Imaginary communism? CRT? Black Lives Matter? Obamacare? No, they compromise with evil and will continue to do so because it’s easy. And, if you listen closely, because it’s fun.

Owning duh libs is a quick shortcut for having to do any of the intellectual work an actual conservative movement requires. Slap those MAGA mules in harnesses, feed them the Fox/Facebook cuttlefish paste, and out slithers win in red districts.

Finally, tell stories from The Catalog of Imaginary Demons. Cat litter in classrooms. Stolen elections. Mandatory sharia gay marriage drag queens. Whatever pokes the worn and calcified amygdalae of MAGA.

If there’s a decades-long effort by a leftist cabal of secret socialists in America funded by billionaires (that’s MAGA for “Jews” by the way) dedicated to imposing communism in America, may I note that they’re doing a terrible job of taking over?

Imaginary armies of Marxist mind controllers just don’t exist…except in the heads of the editors of Trumpbart et al. (And, by the way, they all know better, but rubes gonna click). Kevin McCarthy can BARELY even keep a straight face on these.

Many Republicans breathed a sigh of relief at the idea of Youngkin and DeSantis. “Yay! Credentialed elites like me! HOT sweater vest!” But like McCarthy, they’re out there endorsing the crapulous spew bucket of MAGA loons and weirdos.

This is BEFORE Trump gets in for 2024. THAT comfy illusion (“He’s gone and Mitch is BACK baby) is just that. An illusion. Trump–indicted or not–dominates every single aspect of their lives. He is the mass growing inside of their lives and souls, killing everything about them in his endless, sadist game.

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