• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The right intends to force every American to live their definition of a good life through government edict

    And it won’t stop with Trump, he is their tool and they will keep hammering their nail with other tools.

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      8 months ago

      This is the bit that infuriates me when talking with folks who aren’t as engaged politically, Trump is a symptom, he’s a vessel for all the hatred and vitriol. When he is gone the ideology will persist within the GOP and conservative thought for decades

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          8 months ago

          I prefer to think of him as a tumor: the tumor wouldn’t exist without the underlying cancer (and removing it while leaving the cancer otherwise untreated doesn’t save you) but it’ll still kill you.

          I’m not a doctor so I’m not sure whether the parenthesis is true of literal cancer, but it definitely is in the case of political and cultural cancer like this.