Archive article: https://archive.is/SyLKE a 2019 GOP strategy meeting in the small town of Rockbridge, Ohio, attended by billionaires and media personalities including former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, hedge fund manager Rebekah Mercer, and economist Oren Cass. The attendees formed the “Rockbridge Network,” a GOP strategy network helmed by conservative venture capitalist Chris Buskirk, whose aim is to build a MAGA movement that outlasts Donald Trump by letting business leaders shape American policy.
MAGA’s anti-elitism is partly what got us here in the first place. Does anyone else remember “drain the swamp”? I don’t think any of the people are for this.
All of the magats I got around hate the rich, and they’re starting to turn on donny… but I’m not holding my breath for them to change their hard R votes.
It will be so hard to wake some of these people up enough to vote against the Confederate Party, because of all their training to balk at doing so - because, OMG, “woke”, “DEI”, “CRT” and “antifa”.
Besides all the wedge identity politics (their fixation on things that have zero impact on their quality of life, like “men in women’s bathrooms/sports” is legendary), the red-baiting bullshit runs nearly as deep. It’s just common currency among so many Republicans to just casually talk about the Democratic Party as if they really are filled with literal Communists.
They are for whatever the fuck they are told to be for
Yep. Reprogrammable meat bags. As long as they think their vote will be hurting the people they think need to be hurt, they’ll vote for it. Even if they get royally reamed at the same time.
“reprogrammable meat bag” 🤣
I wish I could claim credit for it, but it’s 100% the invention of driftglass from The Professional Left podcast. He says it fairly frequently on the podcast, but he blogs about it, too:
https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2023/07/americas-reprogrammable-republican.html