A reader comments on the latest nominees for the prestigious Earl Landgrebe Awards:
Yet another example how the R party has lost its way. Can there really be this many damning pee-pee tapes in underground circulation to blackmail them all? Or are they all just airheads?
I thinks there’s a couple of motivations.
Folks who owe their elective position to Trump’s influence are going to naturally try to find some way to thank him, no matter how much drivel they think they must spout. I see Trump as third-rate, and I suspect most of these folks are also third-rate, at least in the political arena.
And then there’s the kindred souls effect. Trump is your basic barstool blowhard, with a lot of money, no ethics or morals, ambition (or desperation), and a touch of acting talent. That stubbornness inherent in the barstool inhabitant, absolutely certain they’re right in the face of every bit of evidence that they’re not, touches a lot of regular barstool blowhards, especially those who happen to agree with Trump. In Trump’s victory, they see vindication; contrariwise, the humiliation of Trump’s loss, the rejection of Trump and his way of doing things by the electorate, is a rejection of themselves.
They’ve had their taste of prestige – if only in their own minds – and it’s really hard to let it go, especially when Trump was chanting for the last five years that the elections are rigged. It’s easier to believe that Democrats, independents, and Republicans conspired to deny the incompetent Trump a second term, than it is to admit that the way he, and therefore they, lead their lives has been decisively rejected.
It probably seemed easier to invade the US Capitol than deal with the intellectual challenges of that electoral rejection.
Thus, the intellectual drivel.
