RIP to the #Heritage #Foundation, which functionally died this week,
as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit.
The Suspect: President Trump and his posse of online shitposters.
The weapon: Antisemitism.
The room: Phoenix Convention Center.
Having offered up their not-inconsiderable reputations and intellectual firepower,
these once-respected thinkers realized too late that they were never steering the ship.
The goal was always a personalist regime that wrecked the economy for the benefit of a few oligarchs.
#Antisemitism is at the center of the Republican project.
From decrying “globalists” and #George #Soros, to embracing the “real” Jews in Israel,
the GOP is inextricably entwined with #Christian #nationalism.
In polite company, the party manages to keep this antisemitism as subtext.
They openly attack other minorities, particularly trans people and Muslims;
But Jew-hatred is expressed as rage at “ #elites” or ancient blood libel repackaged for the modern era, such as Pizzagate and Qanon.
“Trolling the libs” necessitates saying the unsayable.
And Trump, who won by embracing the most online people on earth,
is constantly playing footsie with the fringe figures who endorse him.
That’s how he wound up hosting #Kanye #West and #Nick #Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago in 2022,
both avowed antisemites and #Holocaust #deniers.
But bringing trolls inside the tent means the GOP can’t plausibly deny that they’re central to the project.
Republicans can’t very well maintain a veneer of separation from bomb throwers like #Alex #Jones, #Candace #Owens, and #Laura #Loomer
when they’re being boosted by the president himself.
And so the “normie” Gippers steadfastly assure themselves that they are the real GOP — the signal, not the noise.
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