From Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:
Those of us with decent memories, like the Rude Pundit, can recall that the DHS issued a report about white extremism in 2009. But the Republicans threw a massive hissy fit over it and the Obama Administration, to their lasting shame, retracted the report.
Trump’s base comprised the extremist right. His initial statements on both the Tiki-Torch Nazis of Charlottesville and the 1/6/21 insurrection showed that he agtreed with the Nazis and the Seditionists. It’s only when the blowback got severe that Trump issued mealymouthed retractions each time.
Republicans, especially Ted Cruz, Josh Lawley and the rest of the Caucus of Sedition, have been pandering to the extremist base of the GOP for years. They’ve been telling themselves that the extremist right have been made up of good people, true Americans.
Well, now we all should know better.