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It used to be "beat the Nazis," "got the railroads built," and things like that. There is value to having some conservative values in government. The problems with America actually don't have a lot to do with partisan politics; it is that the right wing turned into Nazis, and the "left" wing of the establishment politicians turned into Roman senators too busy getting blowjobs to realize that people are starving in the streets and can't afford their insulin.
I would actually be fine with Republicans of the John McCain / Dwight Eisenhower mold in government. If we could get rid of Mike Johnson and Nancy Pelosi (ideally by just dumping them into the Potomac), and have it be AOC and Adam Kinsinger, I'd be fine with that. The MAGA people are more overtly evil, but it's not even really a party thing.
I remember seeing McCain on TDS before the 2000 election. He was fucking sharp then. Somewhere between then and 2008, he went off the rails and/or made a deal with the devil.
Yeah, 100%. I feel like maybe he lost his mind because of trying to become the president. Hunter Thompson talked about it, he said he saw it happen to a few different people, he compared it to a moose during mating season, just losing his mind to go after the goal.
Maybe being embedded into a party that became so depraved took some kind of toll on him... having to deal with Sarah Palin. My God, I can't even imagine. But yeah, whatever it was I 100% agree, something happened to him.