or progressive had used the phrase "hold my nose?"

I feel we are living a true nightmare.

if Trump has lost Erick Erickson, it's not good for him

i've blocked the person who posted that on twitter. i didn't recall just why but it must be because from looking at his profile he's a contributor to fox news.

He founded RedState.
He's a Ted Cruz clone.

so then, it's interesting that he's reporting this news. it's not flattering to the leader of his cult.

I disagree with him on nearly everything, but because I liked to research what the other side was saying and couldn't make myself go to the true shithole of the conservative Internet (whose name shall not be mentioned, but you know the forum), I did read and occasionally comment on Redstate (where Erickson started out) with my profile being truthful that I was a liberal. Every community has rules, and theirs allowed admitted liberals to respectfully debate if they didn't hide their affiliation and respected it was a conservative forum.

Compared to most material written by conservatives, Redstate managed to stay pretty center and not entirely "alt-right" -- yes they are conservatives, but they refused to allow Ron Paul to take over the party before, and were a key "Never Trump" group for a loooong time.

Erickson is definitely not our "friend". But he was vocal about the hypocrisy of a true dedicated Christian actually supporting Trump. I hate hypocrisy and admire people who stand by their convictions, and so as such I have to like that Erick spoke "truth to orangeness" (won't say "power&quot by calling him out before the election for "fostering dangerous strain of nationalism".

Erickson is surprising.

pathological liar and has been for decades. He will lie about anything and everything.

... RedState's efforts to try to be something better than the true shithole of conservative commentary we all know and loathe.

And Erick was a part of that. He fought the Paul-bot invasion hard. And if I recall correctly, he was, at least originally, a NeverTrumper.

I looked up this piece written by him near the election, and if you get past the fact he bashes Hillary and liberalism badly (he's a capital-C Conservative, what do you expect?), his strongest criticisms are of Trump and Christians who support and excuse him.

https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/reconsidering-my-opposition-to-trump-jX_tP5wgbUOoufswmJytIA?full=1

Link is only to show the context of this very powerful excerpt, not to promote the RW propaganda elsewhere in it:

"Trump thinks it plays well with his base."

Which totally means he didn't say the thing they think will play well with his base.

Plus, isn't "I don't recall" a non-denial in court? Just because you don't recall an event doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just means you are claiming you are not aware it happened.

Its helping flip both houses the more he acts like this.

dump and the pukes know they are using racism to carry the knuckledragger vote. Not that they aren't racists, too, but calculating cynical ones.

The real goal is dismantling the New Deal and returning us to a nation of poor masses ruled by a small wealthy elite. The racism, like gun nuttery and religious kookery, are just the vote-attracting means to that end.