Erick Erickson has discovered, in the midst of this controversy over some trans-rights activist endorsing Bud Light, that, well, here you go:
It’s about the money. They do not care about you and your values. They care about the money. They expect you to grin and bear it because the company has thrown money in the direction of your preferred political party. They are not willing to hold their own accountable when their own can buy them, and you, off.
They, from unquoted context, are the National Republican Congressional Committee, not the Democrats.
Do you want to know how the left so easily advances in culture? This. MAGA is, it would seem, all about the benjamins, to paraphrase Ilhan Omar. The question is, are you?
Pay attention these next few days to see which of the loud voices against Bud Light from the online right suddenly fall silent. When one can send them money and have them go silent, perhaps professed values are not values but price tags.
Sure. That’s the point of the former President, the entire libertarian wing, the entire business wing, and much of the balance of the Republican Party. “Personal prosperity,” if you like polite talk, or “Unrestrained, drooling greed,” if you’re a more gritty sort of person, has been a part of the conservatives for a long, long time.
And folks who don’t like grinding poverty may be nodding right now. You do have to realize, though, that we’re talking about more than wishing to have a reasonable life style, but about the folks who’ve made their first $100 million, and are now working on their second hundred million bucks, because they think that’s the point of life.
But Erickson seems shocked, which is a bit of a surprise since he’s been around for a long, long time. But, then, MAGA is new for him, and if it seems just logical to me, Erickson has seemed a bit shocked by the whole MAGA thing.
But, still.
