I scarcely know where to begin... but I guess 1988 is as good a place as any.
That year George Conway was working as a lawyer focused on securities and other aspects of finance, including being anti-antitrust. Rick Wilson was campaigning for "Connie Mack", a Republican whose actual name was Cornelius McGuiltycuddy (Sp?/s) the Third. Steve Schmidt came of age and had the right to vote.
From that year, if not before, all of them were Republicans. Until Trump.
I guess if you are feeling generous, you might give them a pass on Reagan launching his general election campaign where three voting-rights activists were murdered. You might even give them a pass on Reagan's 'welfare queens driving Cadillacs' racist bullshit.
But it gets harder when you het to Bush the Elder's disgusting Willie Horton ad.
By 2000, none of them spoke out when Bush the Much Lesser smeared John McCain as fathering an illegitimate black child because McCain adopted a Bangladeshi orphan.
Nor did any of them speak up when Bush the Lesser, who not only skipped out on the Nam, but skipped out on his cushy National Guard duty smeared another war hero as a coward.
Schmidt foisted Sarah fucking Palin on McCain in place of the equally awful, though more qualified Joe Lieberman of the Joe Liberman for Joe Lieberman Party. To be fair Schmidt has apologized for this. Oops, I fucked my boss and might have destroyed my country and the world for (the mirage of) electoral gain, but we're good, right?
None of them endorsed Obama, even after the Bush junior crash. Nor did they support the Heritage Foundation-based ACA that expanded health care to more Americans than ever before.
Up until Trump came along they were all the honeybadger... they don't care.
The racism, the misogyny, the homophobia, the demonizing of the poor? All honeybadger... he don't care. None of them has taken responsability for that.
When did any of them repudiate the sixty years - most of which those three have actively participated in - of all this othering and hate-mongering that lead to Trump? What mongoosish animal says "never"?
And the honeybadgers haven't changed their stripes. Just this week George Conway said religious bigot and cultist Amy Coney Barett was eminently qualified for the Supreme Court.
These people are not our friends. These people are not friends of a just and fair society for all. Lincoln would have nothing to do.woth them.
Sure, they draw the line at a self-delusional ignoramus marching their party to facist destruction. Their parents must be very proud, assuming the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
And we'll take their help. Anythimg to stop the monster that has killed 200000 Americans. Just like Roosevelt and Stalin fought the same guy.
But when folks around here seem to fall in love with these guys, it makes me ill. That's a fuck
Again: they are not our friends. Don't like them, don't trust them and for father-fucking-Ivanka's sake don't adore them.