I think you still need these clueless fucks to be on your side. MAGA types are not the majority of the party yet. There are tons of people as smoothbrained as Ben who are "generally" conservative but aren't paying attention.
And those people will be standing against you whenever you try to do anything that they find impolite or uncivilized or "as bad as them!"
They will never be on your side because they still think we are in disagreement territory, instead of open "culture war." They are the reason why the Left went nearly unopposed for almost a decade (and thereby rooted in every institution) until the "MAGA types" had to force a change.
His role is the face of the "right wing bogey man", same as Tucker (and Walsh, for that matter). They say things that were center-left ten years ago and the rest of the media points at them and shouts "alt-right extremist".
He's controlled opposition. He'll never actually rock the boat, just act as a drag on the leftward drift. Even then, he only does it to get everyone who opposes it in one place so they can be discredited as a group.
They hate him because he somehow is popular, not because his ideas are all that good.
To be fair, his good to bad ideas ratio at least is in the positive towards good ideas.
Just not as good as the ideas of MAGA candidates like Kari Lake.
They are milquetoast and weak in an age when the Left is completely unhinged and demands considerable more resistance.
I'd consider that bad regardless of if it would have been good in a less crazy age, because its placating the masses into not fighting harder.
I think you still need these clueless fucks to be on your side. MAGA types are not the majority of the party yet. There are tons of people as smoothbrained as Ben who are "generally" conservative but aren't paying attention.
That's the catch-22.
And those people will be standing against you whenever you try to do anything that they find impolite or uncivilized or "as bad as them!"
They will never be on your side because they still think we are in disagreement territory, instead of open "culture war." They are the reason why the Left went nearly unopposed for almost a decade (and thereby rooted in every institution) until the "MAGA types" had to force a change.
They hate him because that's their job.
His role is the face of the "right wing bogey man", same as Tucker (and Walsh, for that matter). They say things that were center-left ten years ago and the rest of the media points at them and shouts "alt-right extremist".
He's controlled opposition. He'll never actually rock the boat, just act as a drag on the leftward drift. Even then, he only does it to get everyone who opposes it in one place so they can be discredited as a group.
I hear this term a lot. Who's doing the controlling, exactly?
Jews, obviously. His billionaire Jewish backers have a lot more in common with left wing Jewish billionaires than they do with any of us.