It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Playback.
There's just so many different brands of awful in this one strip. We've got the hideous family dynamics Muir assumes are heartwarming, the blind hatred of government workers that he thinks shows what a clear-sighted patriot he is, instead of a deluded nitwit, and of course, the hypocrisy that insists that his enemies are supposed to buckle always buckle, for Muir is in the right, and his wins are great and sweeping, but that he needs never do the same, because his defeats only happen because they cheated, somehow.
And then there's the fact that the whole thing takes way too long to parse.
"The hideous family dynamics Muir assumes are heartwarming"
ReplyDeleteShyah.
The only silver lining here is that he's never had kids himself, though I blanche at the thought of what his extended family might be like if he thinks this is wholesome.
You know, like his audience does.
"Government workers" have been vilified on the right almost as long as the New Deal but particularly in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. But when exactly did their vilification shift, in circles like this, from their being mere useless bureaucrats and leeches on society to traitorous villains who deserve to be lynched for crimes against the United States?
To the first--plenty of people with these sort of beliefs have families as mystified by the turn their relatives have taken as anyone else.
ReplyDeleteTo the second--that element has long existed, and have gone from being used by the GOPm to using them.