There appears to be a consensus of sorts among Republican and conservative voters that the reason they are continually screwed over by the GOP—despite the repeated pitches for the party made by Republican candidates and their water-carriers in the conservative media, and regardless of whether the party has majority control of government—is that there are just too many damn “RINOs” (Republicans-In-Name-Only).
This, I submit, is what they must tell themselves in order to further the illusion that by continually voting Republican, they can, one day, weed out the frauds and traitors and wrest power from the Democrats. This belief in the RINO, a belief nurtured at every turn by Big Conservative media chatter boxes, serves as the scapegoat for GOP/conservative movement failure.
It is the basis for the conservative voter’s faith in the future: Eliminate the RINO, and all will be well.
Let’s be blunt: The notion of the RINO is actually […]
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