I’m reading @BenHowe’s new book, ‘The Immoral Majority,’ and he includes this excerpt from George W. Bush’s 2001 inaugural. (I knew the GOP had changed, but—wow—this is starker than even I remembered!) pic.twitter.com/n6ihSgoGEf
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) June 16, 2019
It’s easy to say that Bush, his Administration, and the GOP at the time didn’t believe a whit of this shit, and you’d be right to say that. But they at the very least paid lip service to that kind of shit. Today’s GOP doesn’t even care about keeping up appearances. They can take the mask off, put on the white hood openly, and flaunt their disdain and hate for the brown folks and immigrants in general, and get away with it because of how debased the entire discourse is, helped along by hyper-credulous media giving the GOP every benefit of the doubt ever.