Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Ezra Klein: ‘A loyalty test for the GOP, a reality test for the country’


Facebook photo of White House advisor Kimberly Guilfoyle speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention
From Vox:

What is there to say upon hearing Trump described [at the 2020 Republican National Convention] as “the bodyguard of Western civilization”? It’s not an argument so much as a loyalty oath, an offering cut from the speaker’s dignity and burnt for the pleasure of the Dear Leader himself. But the outrageousness is the point. Protest and you’re triggered — just another oversensitive lib who can’t take a joke. Ignore it and you’re complicit. To care is to lose.

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