@politicalwit
It isn't about endorsing; it's about submission. Trump wanted to bring Ted to heel. I've seen plenty Trumpbots on twitter yelling, "You will bow your knee to Trump."
But it backfired spectacularly.
Idolatry never quite goes out of fashion, does it?
Last night's spectacle proved that the power of ideas and the attraction of principle may still fail to satiate the desires of a mob more hungry for revenge than for justice or truth.
As has been the case throughout the rise of Trumpism, one can learn more from the followers than from the leader about the intentions and motivations of both.
What I think I witnessed last evening was the final end of the Reagan GOP, and the triumph of something far different. And also, darker.
That the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican party and his supporters loudly refused to allow themselves to be upstaged by any discussion of conscience or Constitution itself spoke volumes about the parlous state of the American republic.
There was a King to be adored, and any who dared place country or conscience before him was going to hear it from the mob. And the mob was out in force last night: in Cleveland, on television, and all over the Internet, the mocking voices of the alt-Reich screamed out as one, "
Bring us the head of Ted!"
How dare he deny a final, full triumph to King Donald of Orange? How rude, how selfish, how
disloyal of him!
Doesn't he know that he lost, and
we won
?Off with his head, then!
And on with the show.
