Hi james,
Were ours a saner political landscape, Lauren Boebert would have been ostracized the moment she was kicked out of a performance of the Beetlejuice musical for public sexual misconduct. Instead, her star within the Republican Party has only risen, in so small part because she has proven particularly adept at ingratiating herself with the infamously flattery-receptive Trump.
Of course, this sycophancy isn’t without its price. Humiliation rituals — during which one is required to publicly torch any credibility or shame they might have in supplication before the MAGA figurehead — aren’t optional if you want to ascend in the modern GOP. Boebert clearly got the message and appeared outside of Trump’s courtroom along with a coterie of grovelers to bow and scrape.
Simply showing up to demonstrate her support of the nakedly criminal Trump apparently wasn’t enough for Boebert, because as the other Republicans were slinking away she rushed up to the microphone to rant that no crime was committed, a claim which is easily debunked by even a cursory glance at the mountains of evidence and testimony arrayed against Trump. She doesn’t care about the truth, she cares about slinging the smears that Trump himself is barred from doing by his gag order.
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Although she was addressing reporters, she was really performing for an audience of one. Republicans like Boebert beclown themselves like this in front of cameras in the desperate hope that Trump will see them the next time he flips on the television to feed his media addiction. If it helps boost their fundraising numbers, all the better. It’s the lowest, most cynical form of politics and it perfectly distills everything wrong with the GOP. It’s not a political party with a coherent platform or anything to offer the American people. It’s a mindless cult of personality.
Trump’s obvious guilt doesn’t factor into the calculations of Boebert and her ilk. It doesn’t matter to them what he does, as long as he commands the loyalty of the increasingly fanatical Republican base these politicians are tethered to him.
It’s this rampant conservative cowardice that makes this next election so truly dangerous. If Trump attempts another violent coup, Boebert and the other MAGA diehards will fall right in line and then the rest of the party will follow. Nobody will pull the brakes because these people have no considerations beyond their own political survival. If that survival takes place in a theocratic fascist state erected on the rubbles of our democracy, well, that’s just the cost of staying employed.
Thankfully, the very same lunacy that makes these people so dangerous also makes them toxic at the ballot box. Outside of the Republican base, stunts like the one Boebert pulled at the courthouse are painfully transparent. Most Americans see this kind of thing for exactly what it is: deeply dishonest, immoral careerism. This November, it falls to all of us to send as many of these swamp creatures home as possible.
Stay focused, stay energized.
Brian
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