The GOP Have Become Idolators
They way the rightwing talks about Trump makes my brain hurt.
5 min readMar 3, 2021
The rightwing conservatives aren’t even trying to be subtle anymore. Not only do they have a golden idol of Trump on display at their annual CPAC convention, their stage is the actual Odal rune of the Nazi SS! They’ve abandoned all pretense of American democracy. They have become the constructors of a simulacrum — their own post-reality.
According to Wikipedia, a “simulacrum(simulacra): Something that replaces…
