Recall first what Dan Crenshaw said YESTERDAY about his fellow "conservatives:"
“There are two types of members of Congress: there is performance artists and there is legislators,” he exclaimed. “Performance artists are the ones who get all of the attention, the ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well. They know how to recite the lines that they know our voters want to hear.”
Speaking directly of the Freedom Caucus (including Boebert, see below), he said:
"What you hear so often is not true. It’s not true. We have grifters in our midst,” he proclaimed. “Lie after lie after lie, because they know something psychologically about the conservative heart. We’re worried about what people are going to do to us, what people are going to infringe upon us, that’s the nature of conservatism!”
NOW, read this about Trump from 2017, yes 2017:
"Trump’s basic approach — speaking the unspeakable — is expressive, not substantive. His inflammatory, aggressive language captures and channels the grievances of red America, but the specific grievances often feel less important than the primordial, mocking incivility with which they are expressed. In this way, Trump does not necessarily need to deliver concrete goods because he is saying with electric intensity what his supporters have long wanted to say themselves."
Well, today the Durango Herald called for the REPLACEMENT of its own Trump candidate, Lauren Boebert. You can easily find the entire SCATHING editorial, but here are the key parts:
" But rather than directing her energy toward working on behalf of her district she has focused on what amounts to her extended middle finger. That does not get anything done. . ."
"Her tenure has also been marked by a nonstop series of offensive statements and acts that are too frequent and too gleefully conducted to be dismissed as gaffes."
" . . .what is going on here is not governing. Boebert is supposed to be representing the interests of her district. Instead, she has played to a portion of the electorate that seems to see democracy as some sort of circus act.
"Boebert seems to think acting the fool is her job description. And, unless representative government is seen as akin to one of those talk-show screaming matches, Boebert is not representing Western Colorado. Nor does she seem interested in doing so. Enough is enough."
IF YOU JUST THINK ABOUT THE TRUMP SUPPORTERS IN THE COVE, it should be beyond any dispute that the 2017 author was right, the majority of Trump supporter don't actually care about legislative achievements as much as they care about the performative "owning of the libs." In fact, many of them have supported laws that actually hurt them or certainly that cut against the grain of "conservativism." As the author if the 2017 editorial put it:
"Trump can more or less count on continued support from Republican identifiers and has some freedom of choice on policy issues. In other words, Trump can go either left or right as he betrays his campaign promises — as long as his followers believe that he is standing with them and is against what they’re against."
WE ALL NOW KNOW THE AUTHOR WAS RIGHT
BUT WILL IT LAST?
