“They’re all gay!”
by digby
Brian Beutler at TNR catches National Review’s Kevin Williamson calling Donald Trump names:
What is truly remarkable about the Donald J. Trump presidential phenomenon is the aesthetics of it, which are gay in a way that not even Trump’s own gilt-rococo/Louis XIV taste in interior decorating can quite match.
In other words, Trump’s gay. Of course. Beutler sees this as a PeeWee Hermanesque rejoinder to the group of online Trump fans who like to insult Republicans who don’t like Trump as “cuckservatives” — an awkward melding of the words cuckhold and conservative.
But this is really just standard schoolyard stuff that’s been part of GOP politics forever. This is actually nothing compared to my favorite example:
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