The true face of slavish Trump devotion

This post is going to be a lot of pasting of content from a post by Patterico at his own blog. He is one of the recently-fired Red State writers.

Let me begin by saying that I first saw the Kurt Schlichter tweet in question a couple of days ago.

I've discussed Schlichter a little bit before. He is an attorney, a National Guard veteran who served in Iraq and Kosovo, a freelance writer with a Townhall column, and he's worked as a standup comic.

Before he drank the VSG Kool-Aid, he was incisive, funny, and seemed to have his conservative principles in order.

That all changed upon the election of the Very Stable Genius. He quickly became a schoolyard bully who gets his kicks out of mocking conservatives who insist on valuing character, decorum and dignity.

I knew the day would come when he'd go this far:

Getting to the point where I'm actively glad that Trump used Stormy Daniels like a teenager on the internet uses handfuls of Kleenex, threw her away and tossed a few singles at her haggard ass just because it provokes liberal tears and Fredocon frenzies.

"Fredocons," in his lexicon, are the conservatives I describe above. Fredo was the Corleone brother in The Godfather who dishonored the family.

Patterico tweeted thusly in response:

This is as honest an explanation for why Trump fans applaud his immoral behavior as I have seen. Immoral and despicable behavior by Trump is a positive good, as long as it upsets Trump critics.

At his blog, Patterico expands. And he says one thing I find really perplexing ("whom I like in real life"). I asked him about it in a tweet but have not heard back.

Please note: Kurt — whom I like in real life — is not saying that he is amused by the fact that the adultery upsets critics. He is saying that he is getting to the point where he is “actively glad” that Trump committed adultery with Stormy Daniels. He takes special care to describe Daniels, and Trump’s treatment of her, in the most degrading fashion possible.

Kurt’s choices in that tweet — to actively praise the adultery itself, and to describe Daniels in the most demeaning way he could — are an evident attempt to upset Trump’s critics even more. 

And then came the cruel taunts from the hardcore MAGA crowd:

Less time worrying about POTUS, more time looking for a job. You can’t leech off unemployment benefits forever.

Don't you have an unemployment office to be at?  

Are you tweeting from your Obama phone?

Let the concept of "new rules" sink in:

No, this is the explanation. #NewRules @KurtSchlichter warned you one year ago you wouldn't like #Whataboutism You laughed at Kurt, @Patterico I bet you aren't laughing now. You got fired.

There are a couple of tweets that include photos of bikini-clad Karen McDougal writhing on a beach, with the caption, "My president tapped that? Awesome!"

There was plenty of whataboutism featuring Clinton and the Kennedys. The term "butthurt triggered snowflake" was used.

This is unprecedented. The nation's polemical exchanges have been getting more coarse for several years, but this is a quantum leap.

It was heartening to see support for Patterico - and decency in general - in the comment thread.

Still, one senses that the bar is now permanently lowered.

A nation that converses like this is not in good shape.