Opinion: "The GOP Is the Party of ‘**** You’"

Opinion: "The GOP Is the Party of ‘**** You’"

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It was once a political party, now it’s a nihilistic, corrupt, fake populist scam. The Republican Party has become the party of ***** you.” ***** you” is the motivation of its alienated voters. It is its legislative strategy. It is its views toward the laws and Constitution of the United States. It is its reaction to morality and values. It is its foreign policy mantra with our allies. ***** you” is even its message to the historians of the future. Sadly, we live in an age in which the political discourse of the United States results in every idea floated by Democrats, independents, and even the elusive “reasonable Republicans,” in which every constructive thought floated about the direction our country should take, or how we should behave, or why the law matters is met by a chorus of Republican leaders with their signature ***** you.”

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We have seen multiple examples of the politics of ***** you” this week. We have seen Donald Trump, the leader of the party, the high priest of ***** you-ism,” the commander-in-chief of the ***** your feelings” army, in a video-taped deposition saying, essentially, ***** you” to E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer. We heard him say ***** you” to anyone who may have thought sexual abuse was wrong when he doubled down on his famous pussy-grabbing brag, arguing that “stars” like him have been “fortunate” to be able to grab pussies for the past “million years” or so. Then, when an undoubtedly disgusted jury found Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation in record time, he immediately said ***** you” to the American system of justice and to his own hometown in a series of social media posts that soon may be fodder for the next set of defamation suits against him. He followed that up with a televised Trump rally that was carried on CNN in which he repeated some of his greatest ***** yous” to America of the past seven years. He doubled down on the Big Lie. He called Vladimir Putin a smart guy. He refused to condemn Putin as a war criminal. He equated Russia and Ukraine’s role in the former’s invasion of the latter. He promised to pardon Jan. 6 insurrectionists. He said he had a right to the classified government documents he stole. He said the GOP was right to threaten debt default, which he said might have no effect at all. He gloated about his role in making the Dobbs decision happen. And he once again defamed E Jean Carroll. It was a tour de force of what might be called the art of ***** you,” complete with an audience of fawning MAGA zombies and a big old “Get ******” to fact-checkers in the form of his usual tsunami of lies.

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