The Modern Version of Glengarry Glen Ross: A.B.M.
In a take on 'always be closing' in the Republican Party, it's 'always be Maga.'
Sleep for many has been disrupted ever since Katie Britt, the Senator from Alabama, gave her creep-as-hell rebuttal from her kitchen table after Joe Biden’s excellent State of the Union (SOTU) speech last week. Britt really freaked people out, and if we learned that she had stabbed her family — hundreds and hundreds of times — prior to being filmed live from her kitchen, I am sure most of us would not have been surprised.
Britt, it turns out, was not always the bizarrely psycho MAGA mom with a penchant for really inappropriate and unctuous smiles. Just last year, as a matter of fact, Britt made video comments about Biden’s SOTU speech, and the senator said that while “you may not agree with everything, nothing he said was scary.” Just a year ago, Britt was pulling for bipartisan solutions for many of the nation’s problems. Now, however, she is angling for a lead in an as-of-yet-unnamed horror film.
The same transition occurred with the Republican from Texas Rep. Roy Nehls. He was elected with the promise to go to Washington and help the Republicans move past the partisanship that has turned the party into an example of extreme dysfunction. Nehls promised to find common ground with Democrats and push back on the do-nothing approach of the House MAGidiots.
Nehls is pictured above. One year ago, he would never have worn such a shirt — unless maybe he was lying to his constituents.
“And that tells us something important,” said Psaki. “Because even when you’re elected as more of a mainstream conservative […] there is no incentive to stay that way because the MAGA movement is no longer the fringe. It is the Republican Party, and in order to stay in office and rise through the ranks, you have no choice but to go full MAGA (Jen Psaki Unearths Video).”
There is now a whole Holiday Inn ballroom full of conservative Republicans who, upon taking office as relatively sane individuals, had promised to tear down the walls in Congress preventing bipartisan cooperation only to become just more bricks in that wall. One of the most famous is Elise Stafanik. In the first hours after the January 6th insurrection, she demanded that Donald Trump be held accountable. Today, Stafanik is one of the Trumpiest second only Marjorie Taylor Greene and denies she ever critized the ex-president for complicity on that day.
Like in the classic movie Glengarry Glen Ross, if you aren’t closing, then you are selling. If you aren’t MAG-ing, then you don’t stand a chance in today’s Republican Party, which is now fully in the hands of the Trump criminal empire — Eric and Lara Trump are now in charge of the RNC.
There was always speculation about how Trump was going to dilute his Trumpiness to fit into the more staid and established culture and more of the Republican Party. The Republican Party is no more. We see what happens to politicians who come to office with somewhat good intentions. The moment the writing on the wall comes into view and the realization that the only way to gain power and be re-elected is to swear loyalty to all things Trump, they all fall in line — or become ostracized like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
America has become more hateful, racist, and violent since Trump made it okay to let those bottled emotions out — “There are good people on both sides.” He was referring to the loser skinheads in Charlottesville.
Can we survive Trump?