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Republicans are stuck in a high-school mindset
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 25, 2017 11:45am |
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| Author | Josh Barro |
| News Date | Thursday, May 25, 2017 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham wanted to know why he went crying to the police.
"Did anyone get his lunch money stolen today and then run to tell the recess monitor?" she tweeted.
Calling the police when a man grabs you by the throat and slams you to the floor, as witnesses have described — while you and he are both at work and he is a candidate for Congress — is what an adult does in a civilized society.
Yet, as Kevin Glass notes, "conservatives" in the Trump era tend to think not like adults but like high-school boys, vaunting the sort of ideal of masculinity that might be imagined by a socially maladjusted 15-year-old and tolerating in our political leaders the sort of behavior that a guidance counselor would never accept.
Republicans are a party that now celebrates the bully who steals lunch money because, hey, at least he's not the nerd who gets his lunch money stolen. |
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