Irony

GOP’s new ‘bathrooms, bedrooms and race’ mantra on display at ‘fascist’ CPAC summit: report https://t.co/h6uEV3OaOp

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 5, 2022

Orban told the crowd Hungary is the “Lone Star of Europe.” Which is the irony.

Stuart Stevens, the Lincoln Project strategist who has worked on five GOP presidential campaigns, posted, without attribution, “This is why we have always fought: we are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.” 

"That’s not David Duke, it’s Viktor Orban, the star of CPAC, the new darling of American conservatism," Stevens noted. "Bathrooms, bedrooms & race. That’s who they are."

Texas already tried that. Dan Patrick ran around the state a few years ago trying to drum up interest in a “bathroom bill” that would prevent public schools from providing accommodations for all students. It didn’t go anywhere, and hasn’t come back since.

And yeah, I know, C-PAC seems more dominant in the GOP since the days of Gingrich. But does that mean it has a foothold among the general populace? I’m not sure it’s all that potent in the GOP.

It's fitting that a good percentage of the speakers at CPAC today in Dallas have spoken about an 'invasion' of immigrants. The Venn diagram of the murderer's beliefs and CPAC's beliefs are nearly a circle. https://t.co/mYaGjzf3jt

— Zach D Roberts - Photojournalist for hire (@zdroberts) August 5, 2022

There’s a reason Abbott hasn’t done that, and won’t. He wants to get re-elected.

Trumpers love to call the Bush people war criminals, as if they wouldn’t applaud like a pack of seals the second Trump decided to use force. He could nuke Belgium and they’d back his play.

— SomewhatProblematicCrossExaminationHat (@Popehat) August 5, 2022

"Miserable fat Belgian bastards!”

I post this only to point out how out of the mainstream Trump and his supporters are. Trump wanted to nuke NATO; the only support for that he got in the Senate this week was from Josh “Brave Sir Robin” Hawley. Hawley cast the lone vote to not allow Finland and Sweden into NATO. I don’t think that vote will feature prominently in his re-election campaign.