Thursday, December 17, 2015

Good Digby Piece On Trump and The Right Wing Echo Chamber

Digby published a piece at Salon today about how Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing talk machine doesn't quite know what to do with Trump.  On the one hand, they like all of Trump's neo-fascist rhetoric.  But as Digby points out, they do not like it when Trump goes after Bagger-darling Ted Cruz and his "destroy government from within" agenda:
This was illustrated in living color this week when, after all the demented statements Trump has made over the past few months, the thing that finally evoked a rebuke from every talk show host from Ingraham to Beck to Levin to Limbaugh was his criticism of Cruz “acting like a maniac” in Congress, and insisting that you can’t get things done that way. Trump clearly didn’t understand that he had just spit on the conservative movement’s most valued and cherished tactic, the energetic implementation of which they most admire about Ted Cruz. You can say what you want about torture and ethnic cleansing and war crimes. You can trash talk Washington politicians all night long. But you simply do not criticize conservative movement strategy. That is, by definition, RINO talk.
Anyway, fun times ahead.

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