There’s just no other way to describe this lunacy
It’s August 2022 and he’s saying that he should be declared the rightful winner of the 2020 election or there should be a new election called right now. He’s out of his mind.
As you listen to supposedly sane Republican officials argue that the Mar-a-lago search is all political and needs to be more “transparent” keep in mind that they are simultaneously threatening violence and defending a man who wrote that …. today
His cult followers are equally nuts:
I think it’s time we start covering Trumpism for what it is now.
It’s no longer a political movement. It’s a violent fairytale of revenge on political enemies.
Feds could’ve found a body in those Mar a Lago boxes and followers wouldn’t care. It’s about retribution, not facts.
Pro-Trump forums now exist to disseminate weaponizable data on new perceived villains to harass and threaten. One week it’s FBI agents, then IRS agents, then teachers or doctors.
This won’t stop, even if Trump is indicted. But it deserves to be reported on as the pattern it is.
Originally tweeted by Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) on August 29, 2022.
“That’s what Trumpism is now. It’s retribution and revanchism on political enemies and what they view as culture war norms.”
The mainstream Republicans who are enabling this are even more to blame, in my mind. The reflexive defense of a losing former president who incited an insurrection and has now been found to have absconded with Top Secret documents that he has kept for almost two years in an unsecured storage room at his resort hotel and refused to give back is shameful. (Now they’re even screaming about Hillary Clinton again.)
They don’t care. They really don’t care. They may not be the extremists that Ben Collins is talking about in that clip but they are the extremists’ facilitators.