If you like it when a partisan admonishes their fellows concerning their shared delusions, Erick Erickson delivers just such a lesson, and I finally clicked that damn button in his mail so I could deliver the link to you. His conclusion?
To admit you were played and he lost and there was no deep state conspiracy or theft of the election would actually make you look bad at this point. So it’s better to double down on the lies and blame everyone else from the Trump-appointed Attorney General to the Trump-appointed FBI Director to the Trump-appointed CIA Director to various Trump endorsed Governors to the GOP establishment to corporate America, the Carlyle Group, the Rothschilds, the Russians, and the Chinese, along with Fox News that spent four years letting the President have nearly uninterrupted air time. …
It really is remarkable how everyone always fails President Trump in the end. From Jeff Sessions to John Kelly to Mick Mulvaney to General Mattis to William Barr to John Durham to Brian Kemp to Doug Ducey and the list goes on and on, all these people just fail or betray the President, allegedly. I just suspect when the failures are so complete and so thorough and so widespread among people he chose, hired, or endorsed, that maybe they are not the ones failing.
But the entire rant is entirely predictable and could be written by anyone who’s been paying attention and is not a Trump cultist. The Lincoln Project’s anti-Trump videos, all of the Biden endorsements from current and former Republicans, even from Trump Administration officials, former and serving – they have all served to make Erickson’s rant, necessary as it is, nearly pro forma and almost boring.
But Erickson has to write this because of the right-wing epistemic bubble. They talk to themselves only, they convince each other that the mainstream media is fake, and when the bubble develops a hole – they don’t think, Maybe we were wrong. No, their leaders tell them God is on their side, it’s all cheating by the other side, their campaign officials, OUR campaign officials (welcome to the bus, Raffensperger!), and just keep on being … un-American assholes. Indeed, Erickson has been complicit in tarring mainstream media as being fake.
And that’s the real challenge facing America today. We’ve allowed greed to run rampant, and now we’re reaping what we’ve sown.
