Poor ol’ Erick Erickson has been forced to say something that he never should have to say just two days before Election Day:
He got on stage at a late midterm rally and railed against Ron DeSantis. He blasted DeSantis’s handling of COVID. He claimed DeSantis was part of the Republican establishment. “Ron DeSanctimonious,” he called him.
This reminds me of last year when he went after Kemp in Georgia.
He said, “Stacey, would you like to take [Kemp’s] place? It’s OK with me… might be better than having your existing governor, if you want to know what I think. Might very well be better.”
An irrelevant reminder that summer will come again.
Yes, that’s all about the former President Trump. Narcissist, jealous faux-leader of the Republican Party, a shameless man who employs truth and lies as weapons rather than badges of honor and shame – and reportedly still adored by more than half of the Republican Party.
Erickson has been struggling to keep his listeners voting conservative, despite Trump, DeSantis, all the frantic election deniers, the would-be Whitmer assassins, the January 6th Insurrection, Dobbs, the power-hungry hypocritical opportunists, the slippery ethics and toxic culture of the Southern Baptist Convention, the mendacity, all of it.
An honest pundit would have declared themselves to be an independent, and then subject both sides to critiques. Expose the Democrats’ and Republicans’ autocratic tendencies, compare them, and come to some sort of recommendation.
Erickson is a propagandist, though, not an honest pundit. He calls people who need abortions baby-killers, shaves context from arguments, and in general leads his audience away from any argument that might threaten the Republican position on issues.
It’s really quite shameful.
