Highland Deac
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It's amazing how fast they eat their own. They're fucking animals.
True, but that's how authoritarian parties often work historically. There is always intense competition among the underlings to keep the favor of Dear Leader, and the leader periodically "purges" the party leadership to keep people frightened enough that they stay in line and will do whatever he tells them to. Hitler famously had a Nazi Party purge not long after he become dictator - the "Night of the Long Knives", wherein, with Hitler's approval, Brownshirts leader Ernest Rohm and other Brownshirt leaders were killed in a party purge led by Rohm's rivals, Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Goring. Given all the GOP pols competing for Trump's endorsement and approval (there have been GOP primaries this year where candidates brag about how they're more loyal to Trump than their opponents, even when Trump endorsed someone else), and the widespread expectations of a GOP red wave this November, the jockeying for power in the party and Trump's approval is at a fever pitch. As the party's chief media organ Fox is most certainly involved in all this as well.