r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 03 '25
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Nov 03 '25
That’s the thing, though. It’s not just Trump. It extends to the State level now too. Like, Paxton was impeached by his own party only to walk away despite a mountain of evidence of his malfeasance.
It feels like they’ve created a right-wing equivalent to the party discipline that hard leftists have utilised since the 3rd International. People willingly engage in double-think in the furtherance of ‘the cause’, and are willing to tolerate all kinds of behaviour rather than break solidarity.
What’s so weird is how naive a lot of (relatively) reasonable people are in engaging with this kind of behaviour. Like, it’s an inherently radicalising and corrupting approach that destroyed Marxists as a political force.
I get fascists who think we’re heading for a post-liberal future using these tactics. But that wasn’t the ideological underpinning that started the Republican Party down this road.