Erick Erickson is bewildered by the, well, culture of the far-right that he’s periodically helped to engender, and expresses this in a post entitled “How the F— Am I the Sane One?“:
I’m just not down for cults of personality and I continue to note that many of the people most enraged and most convinced that the election is stolen are newcomers to the process who haven’t been around for all the fights before. I like ideas. People? Meh.
What infuriates me the most are the people I know who don’t really believe this stuff, but they’re doing the dog and pony show and performative leg humping so they don’t have people driving past their houses screaming “stop the steal,” like what happened to me last week.
How did I become the sane person in all of this? How did I become the reasonable voice? Me — Erick “let me tell you what he said about David Souter” Erickson!
I suggest Mr. Erickson examine his Trump Derangement Syndrome remark, his abortion is baby-killing broken assertion, and then the thoughts behind this:
I used to be a super political animal and now I am less so and find I am surrounded by people who have become more political. The 24/7 news cycle, social media, the atrophication of in-person social networks, the political demands resulting from a small base of persuadable voters turning America into an “us v them” society, the realization that much of the media really does hate conservatives and Christians — it has all turned into a perfect storm of polarization, politicization, and theological supplementation. As I was disentangling from a lot of it, a lot of people were getting tangled up in it.
Most of the media is run by Christians. Erickson’s problem is that if you aren’t in his sect, well, you’re not Christian. Ask him if he thinks Pastor Rafael Warnock, who is pro-choice, is Christian. Sure, go for it.
So long as Erickson insists on litmus tests, he’ll continue to not understand that he has contributed mightily to the right’s feeling of victimization, and its subsequent decay into the moral depravity of supporting a chronic liar, incompetent, and buffoon over Joe Biden, a man of experience and principles and good reputation.
Yes, moral depravity.
So long as Erickson is convinced the Democrats are evil bastards, he’ll be confused that the right can be even worse.
