Michael Steele tells Democrats they are getting punked

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75. New Rules

https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2021/01/michael-steele-accountability-for-thee.html

If you are unfamiliar with the media's New Rules, the magical journey of imagination that Michael Steele is about to take you on will sound sound nearly incomprehensible -- absurdist theater being played for laughs.

But if you have rewired your mind and your memory to accept the New Rules -- rules that state that all political history began in 2015/6 and that if you are a Teevee Never Trumper you are allowed to make up whatever bullshit backstory you please about your past and it cannot be challenged or questioned in any way because it happened during the Before Time -- then everything Michael Steele said on MSNBC last week is righteous and true and what sort of whiny, petty counterrevolutionary would say otherwise?
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As those of us who were there and taking notes during Steele's Reign of Error know, Mr. Steele's fanciful Remembrance of Chairmanships Past bears no resemblance to actual history. And so I must once again beg your indulgence while I give Clio the Muse of History her due by repeating that these are exactly the same very reasonable terms that some of us dirty, disreputable Libtards insisted that men like Michael Steele should be required to live up to before they could be trusted to join our team. Because (as some of us dirty, disreputable Libtards warned) if we didn't draw that line, the day would come sooner that you would believe possible when men like Michael Steele would have completely colonized the media and there would be no one to say otherwise as they advanced their careers by lying and lying and lying about their own past and their complicity in building the GOP monster machine that produced Donald Trump.

So, for those of you who weren't paying attention at the time, this is what actually happened during Mr. Steele's tenure as RNC chair. After the Democrats nominated and elected of Barack Obama, the GOP found itself suddenly in urgent needed of a black man who was morally flexible enough to front for the deeply racist Republican Party, and Michael Steele was just the man for that job. The party's recovery from its losses in 2006 and 2008 had nothing whatsoever to do with understanding "why the party was being rejected". I had everything to do with leaning all the way in on the deeply racist Republican Party's rebranding scam called the "Tea Party" and their rallying cries of Birtherism and Death Panels.