this entire cohort came up when engaging in little rhetorical games to placate the base worked as long as they were still delivering political wins (substantive or otherwise) and watching them attempt to keep it going into the trump era feels like seeing a washed-up magician bomb ten tricks in a row

regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap

me when I have the most niche mutant power possible: