The “Party of Law and Order - as long as it’s them other people getting lawed and ordered”.
It’s “an abuse of power” and “politicizing the legal system” and “political persecution” when the legal system enforces the law against them.
All those Black Lives Matter protests that had violent offshoots - they should all be imprisoned for life. January 6 invaders of the Capitol Building - they were just expressing their rights as citizens.
Because something something something.
The Republicans decry politicizing the political offices and using the justice system to go after political rivals. Except here in Texas our illustrious Attorney General, Ken Paxton, was caught doing just that and more, going after personal enemies and covering up his own misdeeds. And after over a decade, the Republican Texas House finally impeached him. Then the Republican Texas Senate acquitted him on purely political grounds, ignoring all the evidence.
Now Paxton is leading an effort to unseat the Speaker of the House who oversaw the impeachment.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
The idea that the law is supposed to be grossly unfair in their favor has been a core belief of the Right for longer than this nation has existed, back to when when the term originated and it meant support for the French aristocracy. The exact identity of the “in” and out" groups may change according to time and place and they’ve become less willing to openly admit it, but the desire for an unfair society is still central to their worldview.
Philosophically based in that there is to be either a “natural” or “God-given” (depending on the alignment of the specific Right faction member) order of what’s your place in the world and all are to mind their place in that order and it’s just too bad if you’re not happy with that place.
Notice that applies to a whole range of “order” including order of gender identities and roles, ethnocultural groupings, socioeconomic cohorts, etc.
Interesting. I suppose if everybody in Alabama wanted slavery, the big question would be who would be the slaves? If the premise is to reinstitute Black slavery, I think a bunch of Alabamans would be hard to convince to be for it.
Maybe they should reinstitute slavery, only this time is the whites’ turn in chains. What, if everybody wants slavery, it’s only fair to let the other side have a turn.
These two are seriously creepy and they admire Vance and his patron. MAGA folks subscribe to sone weird ideas, it’s true, but these two people are a step beyond. Pronatalists? WTF?
MAGA doesn’t even have ‘surface-level intelligence’ anymore. From a certain perspective the Earth can appear to be flat. They’re saying the Earth is marshmallow.
(Too be fair, it’s probably not a NEW thing, just more prominent).
Malcolm said he and his wife are working to create a network of other pronatalist families, with whom their children can go to summer camp, grow up alongside “knowing this isn’t weird, what we’re doing” and, ultimately, marry. But this goes beyond the average desire to find family friends with shared values and be part of a community. “What I’m really trying to do is ensure that my kids have an isolated and differential breeding network,” he said.
Oh yeah, nothing weird about that at all. Those kids are going to pay off some therapist’s student loans.
I’ve personally known a couple of huge families – in my youth years ago – none of them were necessarily part of any specific organzation or “cult” (other than the RCC). But the kids I knew who came from those families hated how they were raised, and either hated their parents or thought they were nut cases. I don’t think it’s an especially healthy environment on the whole.