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"deep psychological need" underlies MAGA Hunter Biden obsession: former Reagan speechwriter
https://www.alternet.org/hunter-biden-2658837912/. . .
Trump's Republican supporters, Charen argues, have "a deep psychological need for the Hunter Biden story," which is a distraction from the many lines the former president has crossed.
"For seven years, the right has been explaining, excusing, avoiding, and eventually cheering the most morally depraved figure in American politics," Charen emphasizes. "That takes a toll on the psyche. You can tell yourself that the other side is worse. Or you can tell yourself that the critics are unhinged, suffering from 'Trump derangement syndrome,' whereas you are a man of the world who knows nobody's perfect. But then Trump will do what he always does — he'll make a fool of you."
Charen continues, "You denied that Trump purposely broke the law when he took highly classified documents to Mar-a-Lago and obstructed every effort to retrieve them. And then, what does Trump do? He admits taking them! You scoff at the critics who've compared Trump with Nazis. And then, what does he do? He has dinner with Nazis! And fails to condemn them even after the fact. You despised people who claimed Trump was a threat to the Constitution, and then, Trump explicitly calls for 'terminating' the Constitution in order to put himself back in the Oval Office."
Republicans who are obsessed with Hunter Biden, Charen writes, have "provided succor and support" to a former president "who has encouraged political violence since his early rallies in 2015, has stoked hatred of minorities through lies, has used his office for personal gain in the most flagrant fashion, has surrounded himself with criminals and con men, has committed human rights violations against would-be immigrants by separating children from their parents, has pardoned war criminals, has cost the lives of tens of thousands of COVID patients by discounting the virus and peddling quack cures, has revived racism in public discourse, and attempted a violent coup d'état."
"They know it," Charen writes. "It gnaws at them. That's why the Hunter Biden story is their heart's desire.
"For seven years, the right has been explaining, excusing, avoiding, and eventually cheering the most morally depraved figure in American politics," Charen emphasizes. "That takes a toll on the psyche. You can tell yourself that the other side is worse. Or you can tell yourself that the critics are unhinged, suffering from 'Trump derangement syndrome,' whereas you are a man of the world who knows nobody's perfect. But then Trump will do what he always does — he'll make a fool of you."
Charen continues, "You denied that Trump purposely broke the law when he took highly classified documents to Mar-a-Lago and obstructed every effort to retrieve them. And then, what does Trump do? He admits taking them! You scoff at the critics who've compared Trump with Nazis. And then, what does he do? He has dinner with Nazis! And fails to condemn them even after the fact. You despised people who claimed Trump was a threat to the Constitution, and then, Trump explicitly calls for 'terminating' the Constitution in order to put himself back in the Oval Office."
Republicans who are obsessed with Hunter Biden, Charen writes, have "provided succor and support" to a former president "who has encouraged political violence since his early rallies in 2015, has stoked hatred of minorities through lies, has used his office for personal gain in the most flagrant fashion, has surrounded himself with criminals and con men, has committed human rights violations against would-be immigrants by separating children from their parents, has pardoned war criminals, has cost the lives of tens of thousands of COVID patients by discounting the virus and peddling quack cures, has revived racism in public discourse, and attempted a violent coup d'état."
"They know it," Charen writes. "It gnaws at them. That's why the Hunter Biden story is their heart's desire.
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