R.I.P. Scout26
Interviews with nearly two dozen people with knowledge of the group’s workings reveal a culture of infighting, sexist language and disparate treatment.
Yep, the GOP is much worse than people who fly fully loaded airliners into office buildings and publicly stone women to death who show their face.Former Lincoln Project senior adviser Kurt Bardella tells Joy Reid that al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban ‘got nothing’ on today’s GOP [video]https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/05/06/former-lincoln-project-senior-adviser-kurt-bardella-tells-joy-reid-that-al-qaeda-osama-bin-laden-and-the-taliban-got-nothing-on-todays-gop-video/
They can't admit in their own minds that they have attached themselves to evil people or that they themselves are bad. They have to justify it by thinking the other side is just as bad or worse. As long as everyone is bad (in their own mind), they justify the means.
I wonder if what we're seeing is some kind of moral cognitive dissonance problem. Everyone wants to think they, and their cause, is righteous. But, if you know you're not, but keep wanting to believe you are, what happens?
What I've been seeing from the NeverTrump side of the GOP since the election has basically been joy without a lot of thought, while at the same time they are wondering why Biden isn't turning into a huge fundraising opportunity.