American Psychosis: How The GOP lost it's mind & embraced mentally ill authoritarians like Trump, Gingrich, Gaetz, & MTG as it's party leaders

[BrokeLoser]

not pussified, dignified

that's also the name of my next jazz album

Dignified ALWAYS = PUSSIFIED

 

[blackhawk]

 

[themirrorthief]

From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism.

"American Psychosis" is the definitive historical account of how the GOP went batshit.

The new book from our DC bureau chief details seven decades of bigotry, paranoia, and conspiracy.

www.motherjones.com

why are you fueling hate towards republicans....are you sick.....I have no problem with your support for the biden crime organization

 

[basquebromance]

why are you fueling hate towards republicans....are you sick.....I have no problem with your support for the biden crime organization

i stopped following politics the minute Biden got elected, he literally sleeps all day in the WH, BORING! i'm more focused on the next election, and who will we replace Biden with.

 

[Oddball]

From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism.

"American Psychosis" is the definitive historical account of how the GOP went batshit.

The new book from our DC bureau chief details seven decades of bigotry, paranoia, and conspiracy.

www.motherjones.com

Mother Jones.....roflmao

 

[themirrorthief]

This is a response to the Fetterman mentally ill thread. i don't tolerate beating up on a weak man when he's down

Fetterman is a great democrat....sick in the head

 

[themirrorthief]

i stopped following politics the minute Biden got elected, he literally sleeps all day in the WH, BORING! i'm more focused on the next election, and who will we replace Biden with.

surely some good america hating communist will step up

 

[Oddball]

This is a response to the Fetterman mentally ill thread. i don't tolerate beating up on a weak man when he's down

That weak man stepped into the ring....Fuck him if he gets punched in his fugly face.

 

[basquebromance]

surely some good america hating communist will step up

i nominate...FETTERMAN! LOL...just joking i don't want heads to explode

 

[theHawk]

From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism.

"American Psychosis" is the definitive historical account of how the GOP went batshit.

The new book from our DC bureau chief details seven decades of bigotry, paranoia, and conspiracy.

www.motherjones.com

Yea sure. It turns out the John Birch society and McCarthy were right about everything.

Our nation is unrecognizable to what it once was.

 

[easyt65]

From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism.

"American Psychosis" is the definitive historical account of how the GOP went batshit.

The new book from our DC bureau chief details seven decades of bigotry, paranoia, and conspiracy.

www.motherjones.com

 

[easyt65]

i nominate...FETTERMAN! LOL...just joking i don't want heads to explode

You've already got Biden. Not much difference.

 

[struth]

Opinion | Trump's GOP is unwell. The 1964 Republican National Convention reveals a lot about why.

A line runs from the 1964 Republican National Convention to Trump’s Jan. 6 riot. It has zigged and zagged over the years. But there is a path.

www.nbcnews.com

excerpt from 2020: can you see the similarities?

About noon on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump took the stage at a “Save America” rally on the Ellipse, south of the White House, and surveyed a crowd seething with rage and animated by paranoia. Trump had lost his bid for re-election to former Vice President Joe Biden two months earlier. Yet in the intervening weeks, he had insisted that the results were fraudulent and that he had been denied a second term by a nefarious plot with a global reach.

Trump had long been a purveyor of outlandish conspiracy theories, and, in defeat, he was not going to stop. His volatile presidency had been marked by his never-ending promotion — through tweets and other statements — of dark, misleading, and false claims: The Deep State was out to destroy him. The investigations of Moscow’s attack on the 2016 election were a plot to subvert his presidency. News outlets were an unrelenting enemy conniving to crush him. Trump had painted a Manichean picture of the world for his supporters, asserting an array of sinister forces was bent on sabotaging his presidency. The 2020 election was the latest chapter in this saga, and during this post-election period, Trump had fed the paranoid right and his fellow Republicans outlandishly bogus claims of a stolen election.

Millions of Americans believed him — including many far-right extremists: white supremacists, Christian nationalists (who thought the United States should be identified and organized as a Christian state), neo-Nazis, and adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Certainly, among the people gathered for this rally — which was organized by a bevy of right-wing outfits controlled by Trump backers working in close coordination with the White House — were Republicans and Trump supporters who did not identify with QAnoners, Nazis, Christian bigots, and racists. These outraged people simply bought Trump’s guff about a rigged election. But hate and paranoia — nurtured by Trump — pervaded the air. Members of self-styled right-wing militias had come to town ready for action, responding to Trump’s tweet of December 19: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” One of these groups, the Oath Keepers, stashed weaponry at a Comfort Inn outside Washington, should Trump call on them to take up arms. Wearing body armor, they were ready to move in and apprehend members of the Deep State on Trump’s signal. During a campaign debate the previous September, Trump had told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” — and the group saw that as a message from Trump: Wait for my call.

Many in the audience had been primed the previous day during pre-march rallies in different Washington locations. These events featured speakers deemed too extreme by the main rally organizers to share the stage with Trump. At one of these well-attended kick-off events on Capitol Hill, paranoia and conspiracy theory ran rampant. Ali Alexander, who had dubbed himself the leader of the so-called Stop the Steal movement, told the crowd, “We are here to stop a coup that’s going on in our country.” He shouted, “This is our country, one way or another.” He led the audience in chanting, “1776! 1776! 1776!”

The flood of paranoia continued to pour forth at this January 5 event. Joe Flynn, the brother of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, blasted the “cowards” in the GOP. “Are we going to let them cower to these communists?” he asked. Roger Stone, the longtime underhanded political operative and Trump-whisperer convicted of lying to Congress (whom Trump had recently pardoned), insisted that Democrats and the media were mounting a “psy-op” against America to convince people Biden had won. “This is,” he declared, “a fight for the future of Western civilization as we know it. ... It’s a fight between the godly and the godless.” Alan Hostetter, a leader of the Stop the Steal forces in California, proclaimed war was at hand: “We are at war tomorrow. ... They need to know we as a people, a hundred million strong, are coming for them. ... I will see you all tomorrow at the front lines.” That day, Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and still an ardent Trump advocate, proclaimed on his website, “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s gonna be moving. It’s gonna be quick.”

It was within this highly charged atmosphere that Trump was addressing his supporters and feeding them a toxic brew of baseless charges and doomful suspicion, declaring the existence of the United States was threatened. He warned, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” He gave his irate devotees marching orders: “We’re going to the Capitol, and we’re going to try and give ... them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.” Trump was directing an armed mob toward Congress. His supporters shouted, “Take the Capitol!”


A line runs from the 1964 convention to Trump’s riot. It’s not a straight line. It has zigged and zagged over the years. But there is a path. For years, the Party of Lincoln had encouraged and cashed in on paranoia, bigotry, and conspiracy theory. Trump took this to a new level, but this was not a new strategy.

More than half a century earlier, Nelson Rockefeller had tried and failed to tame a crowd of Republicans and distance the party from the Birchers and their conspiratorial right-wing swill. Trump, preying on similar conspiratorial sentiments, weaponized the delusions held by his supporters that he had originated and advanced. He was using the hatred, ignorance, and irrationality that gripped millions of Americans to subvert democracy.

There was madness within the mob. These enraged Trumpers lived in a false reality. The election was not stolen. Trump was not battling a secret cabal of pedophiles and cannibals. What they believed was wrong — extremely wrong. Yet facts no longer mattered. They were guided by what Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway once called “alternative facts.” For many of the Capitol Hill assailants, Trump and his paranoia had become a theology. With his false assertions, Trump had engineered a distorted reality — as had all those Republicans who did not refute Trump’s baseless claims about the election. He — and they — had encouraged the spread of this American psychosis.

not electing Goldwater was the worst decision our country ever made. Johnson and the dems were a disaster with their illegal war in Vietnam, war on “poverty” that’s created nothing but dependence and driven up debt uncontrollably, quite the step backwards for america

 

[basquebromance]

When Richard Nixon first ran for Senate in California during the Cold War, he accused his liberal Democratic woman senator opponent of being a Communist sympathizer. He said she was "pink right down to her underwear."

classy. only someone MENTALLY ILL would say such a thing

 

[basquebromance]

"The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade our shores . . . but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this Nation. It has not been the less fortunate, or members of minority groups who have been traitorous to this Nation, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest Nation on earth has had to offer . . . the finest homes, the finest college education and the finest jobs in government we can give. The true threat comes from inside, from people who are in power, from fellow Americans who are subversive" -Joseph McCarthy, frighteningly mentally ill, fabulist, gambler, and excessive drinker

 

[RhodyPatriot]

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[RhodyPatriot]

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This post is pure poetic genius.

And somehow, strangely familiar...

 

[easyt65]

From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism.

"American Psychosis" is the definitive historical account of how the GOP went batshit.

The new book from our DC bureau chief details seven decades of bigotry, paranoia, and conspiracy.

www.motherjones.com

You voted for an old, elitist, corrupt, treasonous, criminal, compromised, racist, dementia-ravaged, cognitively impaired serial liar because of 'Mean Tweets'.

You voted for a POS who showered with his young daughter,who grabbed an aide by tbe vagina, and who sniffs and gropes small children.

You voted for a man who bragged on video of how he extorted the PM of Ukraine...

You voted for the POS who has violated both Constitution and law to endanger our national security while facilitating the masdive o -going invasion of illegals, which include thieves / violent gang members / rapists / sexual.predators / pedophiles / murderers / terrorists. Human / drug / child / sex traffickers

Your party is responsible for the largest criminal political scandals in US history, responsible for violations of both Constitution and law, for defraudibg tve FISA Court for decades, violating the Patriot Act and illegally spying on US citizens..

Your party is responsible for failed coup attempts, criminal Impeachment attempts, violent rhetoris abd calls for violence tbat resulted in 2 political assassination attempts, 1 resulting in a GOP Rep being shot...for personally threatening USSC Justices and calling for violence against them.

Your party is targeting young children for CRT, Trans-indoctrination, and grooming ... have used tbe federal govt to target and label.parents who oppoose this as 'domestic terrorists '

And on and on yet you attack others while giving Democrats al free pass.

Pathetic.

 

[lennypartiv]

the MAGA Trump society are paranoid of the deep state

Did you not see what they did to Trump for 4 years?

 

[basquebromance]

Did you not see what they did to Trump for 4 years?

hold him accountable for his crimes? the Russia Hoax i admit was too much, but the other stuff was legitimate. Trump did invite an insurrection on Congress