Conservatives Can’t Deny They Are Responsible for Trump
By: Walter Rhein
Tags: Trump, Conservatives, Elections, Republicans, Politics

Conservatives Can’t Deny They Are Responsible for Trump

They forced him into office, so they own him

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One of the downsides of writing a trending article is that you get to wake up each day to a plethora of deranged comments. It’s not my first day on the internet, and the vast majority of the responses are highly predictable. Some insult me, some try diagnose my “special kind of stupid,” and others simply disregard all reason and accountability. You know, poetic stuff like this:

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The latest article of mine that’s getting a lot of attention is one I wrote in response to a conservative who unleashed a racist and misogynist tirade when I dared to suggest Kamala Harris was “intelligent, competent, and charismatic.” You can read the whole story here:

The comments have been coming fast and furious. I’ve been quick to block all conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters who want to bog me down in asinine debate. I’ve seen the vast majority of their tactics before. However, lately I’ve been fielding a lot of haughty declarations from conservatives who insist “it isn’t fair” that they be lumped in with Trump.

Yeah, conservatives are starting to claim that somehow they are the ones who are being forced to bear an unfair burden because of the racist, halfwit, traitor president that they got elected.

Give. Me. A. Break.

Let me just say that I am really not inclined to listen to conservatives whine about how it’s unfair that they are lumped in with Trump. Go tell it to St. Peter. As for me, you’re all guilty. But just for the folks that weren’t paying attention, let’s summarize.

Conservatives voted for Trump.

That’s the end of that argument. Any questions? Good, now never try to weasel out of it again. You own this.

Trump is a product of conservative philosophy

I find it cowardly, deceitful and insincere for conservatives to try and wriggle out of the fact that they hoisted Trump onto their shoulders and lathered his odious essence all over Capitol Hill cheering and snickering the whole time. It’s not like this was some accident, it took a lot of votes to get him there. True, not as many votes as Clinton got, but still a lot of votes.

Conservatives have been marching towards Trumpism for decades. He stands for all the stupid, authoritarian nonsense that gets conservatives frothing at the mouth. It’s the political philosophy of hypocrisy, and that whole side of the spectrum is rotten to the core.

I think the thing I find most offensive about conservatives is how they’re all such fake Christians. I mean, read the Bible. Jesus spends the whole time telling his disciples to be nice to the poor, heal the sick, and that the weak will inherit the Earth. But every time you go on social media, there’s another conservative posting a meme berating impoverished people, obstructing health care reform, and claiming that anyone having a hard time in life got there because of a series of bad choices.

It’s not a political philosophy, it’s abject cruelty and it’s morally depraved.

Newsflash jerk-wads, it turns out you were the ones making the bad choices and I don’t have any sympathy now that the rent has finally come due.

Hey conservatives, it’s not all about you

It takes a stunning amount of hubris and entitlement for a conservative to work up the gumption to jump onto an article I wrote and complain that somehow I’m not treating them fairly.

Are you kidding me?

If you don’t want to be “lumped in” with the racist, evil president, then write your own article and denounce him. Take some productive steps to ensure he gets removed from office. You know, work for it a little bit.

Don’t prance about the internet leaving obscure comments whining about fairness. If that’s the best practical response that you can manage, then I’m inclined to think that you’re not being sincere, but that your outburst is just another example of the dishonest obstructionism that has become the hallmark of your political philosophy.

Defeating Trump is a small battle in a larger war

What’s become clear in the last few months is that the fight we’re in does not end with the removal of Trump. The left has been far too tolerant of all the nonsense from the right. They deny science, they deny reason, they deny common sense. They are willing to put our sick, our elderly, and our children at risk in service of their own delusional state of ignorance and arrogance.

It would be nice for conservatives to start auto policing themselves every now and then. How about having a little respect for a person who has studied and worked hard and become a leader in his or her field? How about treating other human beings with a little decency, respect, and charity? How about denouncing a president when he tweets out a video of a man screaming “white power”? How about you stop making excuses for evil?

You know, treat everyone else in the world they way you scream and whine and DEMAND the world treats you.

Conservatives are Trump enablers

Conservative pieces of garbage allowed the most evil, racist, misogynist person to occupy the most powerful position in the world. It’s not like they can put their hands to their cheeks now and say, “well, we voted for him reluctantly,” as if that absolves them of their sins.

You did this! You own it!

Throughout the Trump presidency social media has been replete with memes shared by conservatives that make lewd and disgusting attacks against people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they make disparaging comments against immigrants and the impoverished, they descend into outright hate speech against the LGBTQ community.

In all these years, I’ve never seen one conservative step up and denounce these behaviors.

Not one!

And now, out of the blue, conservatives are feeling like it’s “unfair” that they’re being grouped in with Trump. You guys are getting exactly what you deserve.

You want absolution? Then get to work

Don’t waste your time telling me how unfairly you’re being treated. If conservatives want me or anyone else to start seeing you differently, there’s nothing you can do right now but roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Start writing articles denouncing Trump.

Write articles denouncing the Republican party.

Pledge your vote to Biden, and make sure your friends and family know that you hold Trump in contempt.

DON’T scurry around me and demand that I change my perception which is based on your behaviors and the enduring consequences of your actions.

Conservatives are complicit

This mess you made isn’t something you can get out of with a 2 trillion dollar taxpayer funded bail out. Conservatives scream “socialism” if you hand a starving child a piece of bread crust, but they go silent as their party steals from the poor and gives to the rich again and again.

We’re tired of it.

There’s no easy fix, there’s no higher power to save you, if conservatives want to restore their good name, their only option is to roll up their sleeves and make the sacrifices necessary to undo all the evil they’ve allowed to flourish. Personally, I don’t think they will, but opinion doesn’t matter, action does.