‘Independent’ Columnist Insults Americans and Republicans With Experiment in Acting Like A Republican For a Month

Stereotypes are difficult. Rising up, I used to be taught to get to know folks and who they’re on the within earlier than making assumptions about their likes, dislikes, beliefs, and character.

On the similar time, I used to be additionally taught to be cautious of people who dressed like thugs or acted foolishly in public as a result of, because the saying goes, “For those who act like a clown, you’ll appeal to the circus.” I’m usually misjudged primarily based on my look and the demographics that I fill.

I sport my signature mohawk, which recently I’ve been dying blue. I’m the breadwinner in our home, whereas my husband is the caretaker.

Many would assume I’ve liberal proclivities primarily based on my seems, age, and household dynamic. Nonetheless, I’m additionally a lady of religion; my husband homeschools our youngsters, we’re gun homeowners, and we’re proud veterans – clearly MAGA Republicans…proper?

Based on one Washington Publish columnist, I match the invoice of a MAGA Republican nearly completely.

A futile try

Washington Publish columnist Dana Milbank claims to have been an Impartial voter for many of his life. Nonetheless, for the D.C. presidential main, he determined to register as a Republican.

He made this choice after a pal satisfied him they may very well be part of historical past, presumably securing former President Donald Trump’s first main loss to then-candidate Nikki Haley. His hope and that of his buddies was that:

“As Republicans in 15 states go to the polls on the Tremendous Tuesday primaries, I can solely hope that the timeless political maxim holds: As goes the District of Columbia, so goes the nation.”

Relatively predictably, Mr. Milbank’s hopes have been destined to be scattered by the winds of political inevitability as the previous President swept Tremendous Tuesday minus Vermont. As D.C. goes, so goes Vermont…and so goes Nikki Haley, who lastly suspended her marketing campaign after her unsurprising loss.

Mr. Milbank’s try to assist flip the tide for Nikki Haley wasn’t his solely purpose; he determined to take the chance to see what it’s wish to be a Republican. His experiment, or maybe higher put, charade, didn’t unveil the realities of Republican residing however as an alternative illustrated the attract of a candidate like Donald Trump.

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They hate you

In his opinion column for the Washington Publish titled My month of residing Republicanly, Dana Milbank makes an attempt to comically discover the stereotypical life of what many confer with as MAGA Republicans. As he put it in his column:

“…if I used to be going to register as a Republican, it was solely proper that I ought to begin performing Republican.”

It will’ve been adequate if Mr. Milbank was only a Republican. Nonetheless, most Haley supporters aren’t, so why ought to he be completely different?

He goes on to assert:

“I ate like a Republican, slept like a Republican, shopped like a Republican. I watched TV like a Republican and spent my leisure time like a Republican.”

These alleged Republican actions included:

• Rooting in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs (huh?)
• Consuming at Chik-fil-A
• Shopping for a MyPillow
• Driving a gas-powered car
• Attending a gun present
• Purchasing at Pastime Foyer
• Going to the Museum of the Bible
• Watching NASCAR

All of the whereas, Mr. Milbank pokes enjoyable at Individuals who’re pro-life, train their Second Modification rights, imagine in God, and revel in out of doors actions. It drips with clumsy makes an attempt at humor that constantly betray Mr. Milbank’s elitist core.

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I don’t eat at Chik-fil-A due to the corporate’s political and non secular positions. I eat there, as do tens of millions of Individuals, as a result of they’ve a superior spicy rooster sandwich, and the customer support is all the time wonderful.

I store at Pastime Foyer as a result of they’ve a greater choice than their opponents. And whereas I’d relatively watch paint dry than NASCAR on tv, attending a race in individual is an exhilarating expertise.

We’re sick

I wouldn’t take into account myself a MAGA Republican and even that sturdy of a Donald Trump supporter. Early within the Republican primaries, I used to be very desirous about Governor Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Governor Doug Burgum.

What I’ll say is I get why so many Republicans are die-hard Donald Trump supporters. When the remainder of the nation, together with a few of your “fellow” Republicans, despise you a lot, why not help the one candidate who doesn’t care the way you costume, the place you eat, or the way you store?

Mr. Milbank writes:

“D.C. Republicans are a rich and well-educated set, and once I confirmed as much as solid my poll within the main, I used to be the one individual within the place carrying camo gear.”

That sentence alone explains why it was comical that Ms. Haley received the swamp and why Mr. Trump not successful D.C. was an general win. After Mr. Milbank solid his vote, he found that Nikki Haley was coming to talk to the voters.

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He stated as he stood amongst the D.C. Republicans listening to Nikki’s speech:

“The D.C. Republicans in that room have been, in a real sense, my fellow partisans. They’re from the roughly 30 p.c of Republican voters who need to remedy the get together of its MAGA illness.”

Characterizing voters who imagine in God and all the remainder of the tens of millions of Donald Trump supporters as “sick” is exactly why Donald Trump is the place he’s.

The reality

Mr. Milbank ended his column together with his response to Nikki’s assertion:

“Are you able to think about a rustic the place we may strongly disagree and never hate one another for it? That’s the place we need to go.”

Mr. Milbank wrote with nearly an audible sigh to his tone:

“That’s precisely the place I need to go.”

No, it’s not. And he simply proved it in the exact same column.

His column ridiculing tens of millions of his fellow Individuals is proof of elite hatred for them.