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Consider The Terminator.
The old, pre-Trump Republican Party was like Arnold at the beginning of the movie. A cold, calculating, murderous machine, to be sure, but at least it could still pass for human, to an extent, and it had an ability to be somewhat subtle and cunning when it needed to be, flawed though it was.
MAGA, or the GQP, or the Trumpublican Party, or whatever you want to call it now, is more like the machine at the end of the movie. All the skin ripped/blasted/burned away, not able to even remotely pass for human, and no longer trying to be subtle at all. All it cares about now is its primary function and end goal.
But don't be fooled. It was a Terminator the entire time.
All we need now is a big enough hydraulic press.
And, you know, the hope that there won't be five sequels, a TV show, and an animated series still to come.
Of course, the analogy starts to break down when you consider the fact that northward of 40% of the Terminator's victims in the movie weren't actively supporting the Terminator the whole time, to the bitter end, even while he was callously blowing them away. Also when you consider that fact that Trump himself, along with doofuses like JD Vance and Elon Musk and the rest, are way closer to Dick Dastardly or Snidely Whiplash than to the Terminator.
The overall machine itself is more than just those lame bozos, though. They just happen to have acted as the tanker explosion that burned away the skin is all.
The old, pre-Trump Republican Party was like Arnold at the beginning of the movie. A cold, calculating, murderous machine, to be sure, but at least it could still pass for human, to an extent, and it had an ability to be somewhat subtle and cunning when it needed to be, flawed though it was.
MAGA, or the GQP, or the Trumpublican Party, or whatever you want to call it now, is more like the machine at the end of the movie. All the skin ripped/blasted/burned away, not able to even remotely pass for human, and no longer trying to be subtle at all. All it cares about now is its primary function and end goal.
But don't be fooled. It was a Terminator the entire time.
All we need now is a big enough hydraulic press.
And, you know, the hope that there won't be five sequels, a TV show, and an animated series still to come.
Of course, the analogy starts to break down when you consider the fact that northward of 40% of the Terminator's victims in the movie weren't actively supporting the Terminator the whole time, to the bitter end, even while he was callously blowing them away. Also when you consider that fact that Trump himself, along with doofuses like JD Vance and Elon Musk and the rest, are way closer to Dick Dastardly or Snidely Whiplash than to the Terminator.
The overall machine itself is more than just those lame bozos, though. They just happen to have acted as the tanker explosion that burned away the skin is all.
