Newt: Patient Zero of the GOP Hate Machine

drfitglass:

Newt is a human disease. But the thing is, he’s not just any disease, and not just any vector. Newt is the political Patient Zero of the GOP Hate Machine, and he needs to be studied for precisely that reason

He bears studying because he is the GOP’s own “O’Brien”, the real villain of Orwell’s “1984”. The Inner Party character that has been completely engulfed by his own fascistic fantasy of a perfect future of hate and fear and power – forever. Who has become so loyal to the self-lobotomizing act of “doublethink” that makes it possible to maintain a complete Totalitarian State based on literally nothing but lies, torture and murder that he has completely internalized it.

That’s Newt, to a fucking tee. An intelligent man who personally brewed up the raw Kool-Aid likker (three parts rabid hatred to one part boldfaced lie) that he used to nurse the Base along into a fevered, hysterical hatred of Clinton based on trivia and fiction…and who drank so deeply of the dregs of his own witchbrew that now he literally cannot stop himself from going off in a foaming, batshit rage one minute, and then puling about the coarseness of the behavior in the public square the next.

Like the chronically unbathed who eventually stop noticing their own stink, this creepy inability on the part of people that still self-identify as Republicans to notice that their normal patterns of speech and thought are repulsive and offensive is the true legacy of Newt.

He and Rush and all the rest have bred a whole generation of pig people who think nothing whatsoever about casually dropping into conversation the “fact” that Liberals Hate America, but who completely freak out in the most amusing whining-assed-titty-baby way when you simply punch back.

Who blab on about how the “Liberal Elite” destroying the country, despise our soldiers and want to tax working men and women into penury with exactly the same thoughtlessness-borne-of-massive-and-careful-brainwashing with which a German would have offhandedly mentioned the “Dirty Jews” in a different age and in a different land.
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And at the drop of a rhetorical pin he will reliably conjure up the Worst Possible Case Ever – Liberals using your tax money to, say, air freight American babies to Pakistan so they can be afire and used as skeet by Osama bin Laden – and then loudly demand to know why Liberals want to destroy America.