Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Con" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Con</span></a> at the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Core" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Core</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a>. </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/conservativemovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservativemovement</span></a>’s total <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/abandonment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abandonment</span></a> of even the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/appearance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>appearance</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/principles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>principles</span></a> has been decades in the making. </p><p>Pick your <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/metaphor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphor</span></a> for the last eight years of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sewer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewer</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/garbagetruck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garbagetruck</span></a>? Practically every day a helpless <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nation</span></a> watches a new scrap of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/official" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>official</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grift</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/publictrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publictrust</span></a> revealed and tossed into the churning <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dumpsterfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumpsterfire</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/184442/con-core-republican-party-trump-conason-book-review" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/184442</span><span class="invisible">/con-core-republican-party-trump-conason-book-review</span></a></p>