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Let's be real for a minute.
So, other than Matt being slime, what's the lesson here? That's easy.
Ok? Now we are clear. Matt is a swamp creature, one of Trump's favorites before the news of his asshole nature became public. Remember this image with Second Daughter?Gaetz, who really is one of the sleazier and more reckless creatures to ooze out of the swamp in recent years, is also said to have bragged about his escapades on the House floor, reportedly showing colleagues nude pictures and videos of women he claimed to have slept with. His conduct in the Florida state legislature, where he and a group of young male colleagues reportedly used a points system for their sexual adventures, was, according to Fox News, "an open secret" in Tallahassee. In other words, there is no plausible deniability here for Republican leaders.
So, other than Matt being slime, what's the lesson here? That's easy.
Remember, Trump is the guy who ripped off his supporters with one of those "check the hard to find box or we'll continue pulling money out of your account until its empty" schemes. Grifter in Chief attracted the worst people....there is definitely something about the generalized seediness of MAGAworld that seems to attract a disproportionate share of the country's unprincipled, exploitative grifters, fundamentally immoral people who feed off of group dynamics in which transgressors normalize antisocial behavior and create a permission structure for others to follow them into the muck. The takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump...
Matt Gaetz and the tyranny of the backbencher
A handful of Republican political exhibitionists have driven the news cycle so often in 2021 that you might mistake them for party leaders
theweek.com