The Texts are Coming from Inside the House

This vile fundraising text-message did not come from some fringe group. It came from the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Let’s count just a few of the ways in which this is disgusting:

1. It misuses the term “traitor” to suggest that not supporting a politician can ever be treason.
2. It implicitly identifies fealty with The Leader with loyalty to the United States.
3. It suggests that it is unpatriotic to fail to support a man who
   1. encouraged a seditionist mob to storm the Capitol of the United States in order to prevent the certification of an election he had lost and
   2. tried to subvert the Justice Department to undermine the election result
   3.  when in fact the reverse is true: supporting the seditionist is what is unpatriotic.
4. It says those who don’t send the NRCC money right now will be “branded a deserter”. And creates a totally bogus 17 minute deadline to fork over.
5. Appeals like this work.

I knew House Republicans had gone pretty far over to the Dark Side, but this…