Just a Humble Politics Blog

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See you guys on the other side. I have a lot of unfinished business to take care of.

One of the very few silver linings of the ongoing Trumpster fire in the White House is that America’s right wing has stopped pretending they have any kind of morals, ethics or principles. It’s wonderfully refreshing to see them openly admit that the only thing that matters is their political allegiance to the Republican Party and absolutely nothing else.

For the most recent and clearest example of this, take a look at how both Republicans and Democrats responded to both Obama wanting to bomb Syria and Trump actually doing it:

That 56% swing? That’s what a political movement devoid of core principles looks like. Democrats, on the other hand, were quite consistent. Why? Because the left, for all of our diverse ideologies, actually has a core set of values that we generally don’t jettison when it’s politically convenient.

We all know that once Trump is forced out of office, Republicans voters will immediately feign horror. Perhaps they’ll insist that Trump wasn’t a “real” Republican. Perhaps they’ll say they never voted for him. Perhaps they’ll break out their little tricorner hats again and try to resurrect the Tea Party as a “separate” party from the “corrupt” GOP. It worked for them after Bush and the Republicans left the country in shambles, why not try it again?