Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and a whole host of conspiracy theorists are claiming the hurricane was planned in order to harm Republicans. Climate experts tell WIRED that’s impossible.
When you’ve decided the GOP is insane, you stop being a GOP voter.
But a lot of these voters have more at stack than a simple vote. They’re economically linked to the socially conservative institutions and private businesses that the GOP has been standing up to form the backbone of the Floridian economy. You’re not going to convince people who rely on a salary from a charter school or an AM talk radio station or a functionally unregulated chemical plant or a cruise liner that caters to adult babies that Republicans are a bad choice for office, because these people are on the same payroll as their political bosses.
That’s before you get into the deluge of right-wing propaganda that echoes across the peninsula night and day 24/7. The US media is a hate machine, and GOP voters are the intended output of that machine. That, plus knowing your boss is an ultra-orthodox conservative, means people who want to function in the state either drink the kool-aid or keep their heads down.
Yeah so if we go back to the first point, there must be some level of insanity that the GOP voters realize that the GOP is utterly insane. Is “they control the weather” really not there yet?
there must be some level of insanity that the GOP voters realize that the GOP is utterly insane
Different messages go to different audiences. You can find plenty of Republicans who think MTG specifically is a nut, but feel perfectly comfortable voting for Ted Cruz or John Thune or Mike Johnson, because they’re the serious adults in the room.
On the flip side, you have a certain demographic of Rush Babies who will believe anything negative about democrats because its all just a game of smearing and you’re happy enough to feel like you put points on the board. “They said JD Vance fucked a couch, we said Joe Biden created a hurricane, so now we’re even.” The reality of the statement matters less than the vibes. And the vibe of “Democrats caused the Hurricane” boils down to “Democrats Hate America”, which Republicans generally understand to be true.
When you’ve decided the GOP is insane, you stop being a GOP voter.
But a lot of these voters have more at stack than a simple vote. They’re economically linked to the socially conservative institutions and private businesses that the GOP has been standing up to form the backbone of the Floridian economy. You’re not going to convince people who rely on a salary from a charter school or an AM talk radio station or a functionally unregulated chemical plant or a cruise liner that caters to adult babies that Republicans are a bad choice for office, because these people are on the same payroll as their political bosses.
That’s before you get into the deluge of right-wing propaganda that echoes across the peninsula night and day 24/7. The US media is a hate machine, and GOP voters are the intended output of that machine. That, plus knowing your boss is an ultra-orthodox conservative, means people who want to function in the state either drink the kool-aid or keep their heads down.
I’m thinking more than just Floridian voters. Like how do GOP voters across the country look at this GOP insanity and think “this is fine”.
They work in industries and ingest media that normalizes the attitudes and behaviors.
Yeah so if we go back to the first point, there must be some level of insanity that the GOP voters realize that the GOP is utterly insane. Is “they control the weather” really not there yet?
Different messages go to different audiences. You can find plenty of Republicans who think MTG specifically is a nut, but feel perfectly comfortable voting for Ted Cruz or John Thune or Mike Johnson, because they’re the serious adults in the room.
On the flip side, you have a certain demographic of Rush Babies who will believe anything negative about democrats because its all just a game of smearing and you’re happy enough to feel like you put points on the board. “They said JD Vance fucked a couch, we said Joe Biden created a hurricane, so now we’re even.” The reality of the statement matters less than the vibes. And the vibe of “Democrats caused the Hurricane” boils down to “Democrats Hate America”, which Republicans generally understand to be true.