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Never Turn Your Back on a Never Trumper "You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
-- Hunter S. Thompson

Like, for example, Steve Schmidt, darling of the Acela corridor rebels because 9/10ths of the way through his career as a stone-cold Republican button man he freaked out that his Republican party was full of -- gasp! -- Republicans and, without missing a beat, started talking like, well, me.

And he was doing a pretty fair imitation of me right up until yesterday when he just could not stop himself from chasing that sweet-sweet Both Siderist dragon one more time...

Steve Schmidt attacks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for ‘dishonest progressivism’ — and says it’s bad as ‘Trumpism’

... “And what Trump is doing is radicalizing American politics,” the conservative strategist continued. “And he is a beneficiary the more radical politics becomes. When it becomes a game of incitement between a far left who says everybody is going to have a government job, everybody is going to have daycare, everybody is going to have retirement, free schools, free college education — as we careen toward $30 trillion in debt.”

Schmidt added: “When we have dishonest progressivism and we have dishonest Trumpism and an alienated middle that surrenders. They break their will to fight back. They become disenfranchised and hopeless about the idea that free market capitalism or liberal democracy can prevail in a radical era. That is the danger.”...

For 40 years, Mr. Schmidt's party has seized every opportunity to run up deficits as part of a calculated, long-term, poison-pill strategy to create a "But we haz no munnies!" alibi for gutting the social programs they have always hated.  So when you hear Mr. Schmidt whining about how radical it is for a candidate to talk like FDR and why we cannot possibly meet the basic needs of our citizens because something something free market capitalism, and then rolling it all up into a big, Beltway-pleasing "The Extremes on Both Side" fatty that he passes around the table to his fellow junkies, you can be pretty damn sure that ol' Stever is no longer in recovery.

Which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone. In the fight to dismember the Republican party the best we can hope for with a Never Trumper is that they act as a helpful political bomb-sniffing dog.  And if so, that's great.  They should be accorded the same respect as any other, useful service animal -- well-treated but they do not get to set the fucking agenda.

But never, ever be surprised when a Never Trump service animal suddenly takes a chunk out of your leg, shits on your bed, and then dives immediately into their "Extremes on Both Sides" hidey-hole.

Because you can never turn your back on a drug.  And as I wrote a decade ago, that is exactly what Conservatism is.  And why, once again, this November is not just an election.

It's a last-ditch intervention.

And they hated him for it.


Posted by driftglass at 6/28/2018 12:23:00 PM starskeptic said...

Seconded on John Anderson...
 
The addiction analogy is well spoken.
The addictions to hate, superiority to exclude those you perceive as your enemy in denying their rights as one of those, We the People". The megalomania (l)
plantation owner (before the Civil War) all knowing inherited genetic ordained superior being that must impose that greatness (for others mind you) to obey!.

* Disregard the norms of civility and respect of others, only Conservatives can be allowed to confirm judges that assuredly twist pretzels out of law to further the cause of the conservative Holy Grail.. The Grail that excludes all other non believers and addicts.

Abolishing the right to associate in a workplace (unionize) while political parties are given the special privilege to do so in every aspect of their lives.
After the deception of selling military weapons to a terrorist nation . Using those sales profits to fund your private war in S. America. When caught, a mere iota of sub-admitting, "As my heart said I did not break the law, My mind sort of thinks I might have" AWWW, isn't he so cute?
Immigrant Amnesty by presidential magic wandu.

Never happened because there are so many conservative assholes with a diarrhea degree. Who daily waive both cheeks in your face. That too many become so used to it. It becomes painful when taking the anal suppository orally (by mouth) after the rear end has spit it out each time placed anally and would not take. The tongue's taste buds still tells the brain that the shit on the suppository that kept plopping out after anal insertion. Is disgustingly distasteful.

Only a true conservative can man up and endure the nasty taste of their own shit But swallowing that same anal reject pill with someone else shit on it
seems to be a delicacy among conservatives.

I am completely astonished the republican government has not completely subsidized straw AG. To ensure an abundance of the resource in their Straw men construction industry.

Only the asshole with a diarrhea degree is qualified to opine as Schmidt as a conservative on the "so called leftist media) for a paycheck.

Some day, many moons from now, Perhaps the discussion of why the likes of Steele, hewitt, Joey Scar and Schmidt did not go to the natural environment at FOX?

There are many who like the optimistic view of all can be saved or rehabed.
While others contend, only some (the willing) and a few interventions can achieve rehab successfully.

I like to think the optimistic approach so as to rehab all those that might be deemed prior to rehab as so rabid and discriminating to put them down.
A chance to redeem some semblance of reasonable respectful life of dignity is worth the effort.

All said and done, There are specific cases , as Donaldo Trumpus., McConnell, hannity to Clarence Thomas who would prove me wrong. Wrong in which providing all the shot at redemption from the addiction or disease they are afflicted.

We need a Luis Pasteur of modern day to which a cure may be easily dispersed to cure this political rabies.
Virtually all infections with rabies resulted in death until two French scientists, Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux, developed the first rabies vaccination in 1885. This vaccine was first used on a human on July 6, 1885, on nine-year-old Joseph Meister (1876–1940), who had been mauled by a rabid dog.
 
I too am ashamed that I voted for John Anderson, and I wasn't that young (33).
 Cirze said...

You never age.

