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In reply to the discussion: OUR PRESIDENT!: "The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. SILENCE IS COMPLICITY." [View all]Ocelot II
(115,829 posts)Some would have voted GOP in the past for the same reasons members of other minority groups might have done - small government ideology, taxes, a perception (not all that accurate) that the GOP was better for business, generally conservative mindset, etc. - but until TFG became president the GOP managed to keep its anti-Semitism and general bigotry under wraps well enough to attract the votes of at least some of the people they secretly disparaged. But it's all out in the open now, and the fact that so many Congresscritters and other high-visibility GOPers have failed to vigorously denounce the likes of Ye and Fuentes and the fact that the current leader of the GOP is dining with such vermin and brushes off the controversy by claiming disingenuously that he didn't know who Fuentes was, should be clear evidence that there are no policy issues that should weigh more than the fact that the GOP now tolerates actual Nazis. Not just Nazi-sympathetic or Nazi-adjacent people, but real, admitted Nazis who openly hate and want to eliminate Jews. It couldn't be much worse if zombie Hitler turned up for dinner at Mierda-Loco and was welcomed with open arms.