{"id":43487,"date":"2026-01-05T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43487"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:07:32","slug":"struggling-to-move-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/05\/struggling-to-move-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling To Move Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43491 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=222%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C828&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C621&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1242&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1656&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C121&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?resize=186%2C150&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20250911_175909693-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Long-term readers will remember the prediction that the Republicans would accelerate right as they fight to move up the social prestige ladder of the conservatives. Because the right has been successfully trained to consider purity golden and compromise loathesome, the ambitious, arrogant gits on the right would have <em>de facto<\/em> contests to show who is most pure and, thus, claim for themselves a golden calf to sit upon.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I did write <em>golden calf<\/em>, and that&#8217;s to emphasize the role the clerics have played in relentlessly telling their base that the Divine is on their side, even though he doesn&#8217;t speak to them, and, of course, <em>Neither the clerics nor<\/em> <em>the base can be wrong<\/em>. As Senator Goldwater (R-AZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/777519-mark-my-word-if-and-when-these-preachers-get-control\">said<\/a> back when I was a kid (the 1960s):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they&#8217;re sure trying to do so, it&#8217;s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t compromise. I know, I&#8217;ve tried to deal with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back on point, here&#8217;s the latest subject of a right-winger trying to move up the right-wing social ladder through a demonstration of purity:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING &#8211; Streamer Asmongold says the Somalian fraud is far larger than just arresting a few Somalians, that entire families must be denaturalized and deported, and that the officials who allowed it to happen must face treason and capital punishment charges or he is done voting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/boSskMvESu\">pic.twitter.com\/boSskMvESu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rightanglenews\/status\/2006483013287424307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>In case this <strong><em>X<\/em><\/strong> post disappears:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BREAKING &#8211; Streamer Asmongold says the Somalian fraud is far larger than just arresting a few Somalians, that entire families must be denaturalized and deported, and that the officials who allowed it to happen must face treason and capital punishment charges or he is done voting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Followed by a stream from &#8216;Asmongold,&#8217; aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/tim-walz-somali-execution-death-penalty-musk-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zack Hoyt<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t actually listen to the stream, as the summary seems enough for me. Ja&#8217;han Jones of <em><strong>MS NOW<\/strong><\/em> contributes this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf JD Vance does not push for treason with capital punishment against Tim Walz, do not vote for him,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rightanglenews\/status\/2006483013287424307?s=20\">[Hoyt] said<\/a>. \u201cIf Trump does not deliver that, do not vote for him. Unless the most extreme, dramatic, brutal, aggressive option is on the table, I\u2019m staying home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elon Musk joined in, as did others, according to Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Where does this go now? Well, it&#8217;s up to the conservative base. If they desert Hoyt, rejecting him as the power-hungry fool he appears to be, then we may be on our way back to sanity. That base is already suffering shocks from President Trump&#8217;s tariffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/04\/starting-a-war-to-avoid-domestic-issues-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foreign wars<\/a>, deeply embarrassing Cabinet, and the symptoms of dementia he puts on display every day. Calls for capital punishment for failing to prevent fraud is so utterly ridiculous that they should reject it, and those who call for it.<\/p>\n<p>But they may cling to their allegiances, because falling down the social prestige ladder is a real blow to the ego. What I see as a truly shattering blow to the plausibility of Trump and <strong>MAGA<\/strong> may not be enough drive them away just yet. If so, I fear we&#8217;ll be seeing more wild-eyed propositions from idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term readers will remember the prediction that the Republicans would accelerate right as they fight to move up the social prestige ladder of the conservatives. Because the right has been successfully trained to consider purity golden and compromise loathesome, the ambitious, arrogant gits on the right would have de facto \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/05\/struggling-to-move-right\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43492,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43487\/revisions\/43492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}