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

[Cellblock2429]

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are the ones who are lying to you and dividing the nation. Democrats are just pointing out the lies and deceptions and you're blaming the messenger.

/----/ What lies? The high price of gas? The high price of food? Inflation? Border security? What are we lying about?

 

[skews13]

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

Well, then you’re not Republican.

 

[skews13]

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

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

Republicans can be easily defined with no words at all

 

[ThisIsMe]

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are the ones who are lying to you and dividing the nation. Democrats are just pointing out the lies and deceptions and you're blaming the messenger.

No, from where I stand, I see the message of hate eminating from the left. Their message is constantly that all white, Christian, right wingers are racist, homophobe, xenophobia, anti semitic. I see that the dems are constantly on the attack, spouting lies about groups of people, and they don’t care who they hurt, they just love to attack, they want to win at all costs, no matter who they trample on to get there. I see the right, always on the back foot, having to defend against those attacks.

I agree there is hate on both sides, but I’ve never seen the right use rhetoric and blanket statements that are divisive to the country like the left is doing, and not just from the people…but from our elected officials.

I don’t care how divided the people are, our elected officials should try to unite the people, not join in the hate and division. And for our president to get up there and declare that “maga republicans” are an enemy of the nation, was completely wrong.

The problem is, the hate from the left has gotten so pervasive that most on the left actually believe that people on the right are the enemy, and our elected officials are just stoking the fire.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

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

Defending the Constitution is authoritarian and tyrannical?
Joe Biden is a segregationist
and here a leftist favorite conspiracy theory.
Trump Russian Collusion
Fucking simp

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Republicans can be easily defined with no words at all


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You're showing pictures of democrats you stupid fuck

 

[bigrebnc1775]

The lives of these (Native) American savages are a few degrees less meaningless, squalid, and ferocious than the wild beasts. -Theodore Roosevelt

this racist impulse led to war. many GOP politicians adore TR still today, though he was a mentally ill white supremacist racist

LBJ those n1@gers have gotten uppity we got to give them a little something to keep'em calm

 

[skews13]

You're showing pictures of democrats you stupid fuck

Im showing pictures of white christian conservatives. What political party they happen to be a member of at any given time in history is irrelevant.

So lets ask some black vote if they deem those white racist fucks in those pictures whos side they are on.

 

[theHawk]

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

Nixon was right. Lefties are communists.

 

[basquebromance]

Joe McCarthy accused General George C Marshall of involvement in "a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man."

Gen Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize; Churchill called him "the organizer of victory" over Nazi Germany.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

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

Every single person, source and group you named can define what a woman is and knows men can’t get pregnant.
You are the kooks. You are the wackos. You are the groomed. You are the ones destroying America.

 

[Rust_Cohle]

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

McCarthyism was right, look around you. You dems are 100% communists

 

[basquebromance]

Eisenhower and McCarthy | American Experience | PBS

The president refused to denounce McCarthy until the senator set out to expose communists within the U.S. Army.

www.pbs.org

from the article:

Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery reprehensible. As a military man he had been able to distance himself from petty political crusades in the name of the greater cause. But in 1952, as a first time candidate for the office of the presidency, he found it would be a good deal more difficult to maintain his political purity. When McCarthy delivered a blistering attack against former Secretary of State George C. Marshall, calling him "a man steeped in falsehood," candidate Eisenhower was faced with a dilemma. A popular member of his own party was publicly disparaging a man Ike considered a valued mentor. Eisenhower's personal and political instincts came into conflict during a campaign stop in McCarthy's home state of Wisconsin. Eisenhower was prepared to deliver a defense of Marshall, praising him "as a man and a soldier," and condemning the tactics of McCarthy as a "sobering lesson in the way freedom must not defend itself." But noble intentions gave way to political reality. Aware of McCarthy's huge base of support and not willing to risk losing votes in a crucial state, Eisenhower delivered his speech minus the defense of Marshall and the condemnation of McCarthy. It was a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

McCarthy's influence did not abate after Ike had entered the White House. In an apparent effort to demonstrate that he, too, was tough on communists, Eisenhower supported legislation extending the reach of espionage and sabotage laws, and authorized the FBI to step up its efforts to infiltrate and disrupt Communist Party activities. Eisenhower refused to grant executive clemency to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of spying for the Soviets, even though he admitted being "impressed with all the honest doubt" concerning the fairness of their trial. Ike allowed the execution to go forward in "the hope that it would deter others." But various news organizations, including the generally supportive Time magazine, criticized what they called the Eisenhower administration's "disgraceful episodes of appeasement" of McCarthy and his anti-communist crusade.

President Eisenhower defended his refusal to denounce McCarthy publicly, claiming that to do so would only further polarize the nation and reward McCarthy with additional publicity. To his aides, Eisenhower vowed, "I will not get into the gutter with this guy." By the end of 1953, polls indicated that at least half of all Americans had a favorable impression of McCarthy and his tactics. Emboldened by such support, McCarthy set out to widen the scope of his investigations. This time, however, he would go too far.

When McCarthy, armed with little more than hearsay and innuendo, set out to expose communists within the U.S. Army, Eisenhower decided enough was enough. He instructed his staff to present information that would discredit McCarthy. It was revealed that McCarthy had petitioned the Army to award preferential treatment to his assistant, David Shine. Finding himself on the defensive, McCarthy demanded notes of meetings between Eisenhower administration personnel and Army officials. Eisenhower established a presidential precedent by invoking executive privilege in refusing to turn over the notes. Claiming that matters of national security might be breached if administration officials were forced to testify under oath, Eisenhower robbed McCarthy of the opportunity to perpetuate his inquisition. From that point on the Army-McCarthy hearings degenerated into a series of increasingly unfounded and paranoid accusations.

Eisenhower quietly exerted pressure on Republican senators to go forward with a censure of McCarthy. In December 1954, the Wisconsin senator was condemned for conduct unbecoming a Senator. Eisenhower had been successful in undermining McCarthy by employing "hidden-hand" tactics, but critics contended that more decisive action could have prevented many innocent people from being forever tainted by groundless charges.

 

[badbob85037]

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

From Liberalism to the rioters of 2019 and the racist of BLM. From the Godless demanding to murder the innocent, as they burn, riot, and murder while the media lie for the democRats agenda as their voting block puts new meaning to stupid, never having to even to consider ever being ignorant.

You poor guy. Enlist and you will start using your head as it has gotten real soft and soon will present a health hazard.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Im showing pictures of white christian conservatives. What political party they happen to be a member of at any given time in history is irrelevant.

So lets ask some black vote if they deem those white racist fucks in those pictures whos side they are on.

Democrats you stupid fuck

 

[lennypartiv]

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

Trump tried to stop the steal.

 

[Dragonlady]

The right wing, by nature, is not authoritarian. The more "right" you become, the more freedom you desire. The more "left" you become, the more control you desire.

Democrats are welcome to try to explain to me how these right wingers try to control them.

Conservatives don't believe in "freedom" at all. That would be progressives. Conservatives believe in keeping things the same. "Conserving" what is. They oppose change. The history of the world is a story of progressives overcoming the fears of conservatives and moving the world forward.

"Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values." When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, conservatives sided with the King of England.

Today's conservatives want to institutionalize segregation, roll back voting rights for non-white citizens, and cease to provide a high quality free education to American children. If your parents aren't rich, you will have zero opportunities to get a good education in a poor neighbourhood. You have become the apartheid state that South Africa used to be.

 

[Dragonlady]

Nixon was right. Lefties are communists.

When you have to quote the second most corrupt and criminal President who ever lived, you don't have much of an argument, Hawk.

 

[theHawk]

When you have to quote the second most corrupt and criminal President who ever lived, you don't have much of an argument, Hawk.

What was his big crime?

No one comes close to the Clintons, Hussein, and Biden corruption. Hell, all of the modern Dems are 100 times worse than Nixon ever was.

 

[Billiejeens]

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

What?