One of the strangest elements I have noticed in this kind of 'conservatism' (it's not really that, but I'll use that term for now) is the growing body of 'art' that acts more as a bizarre ideological statement than anything. Yesterday my old friend Rob posted this on Facebook (thankfully to mock):
So on the left are all kinds of Democrat leaders, from Bernie Sanders to Chuck Schumer to Nancy Pelosi. And let me say, I'm not a big fan of any of these characters. But here we have them trampling on the American flag while celebrating every other nation out there, even the European Union. Mexico, in particular, seems to be their guiding force and greatest love. In the back right of the picture there appears to be some kind of mob...likely it's the immigrant hordes coming across the border, with the Democrats WHO HATE AMERICA leading the charge.
But resplendent in a sweet, sweet bomber jacket, Donald Trump is there, looking down and clasping his hands in prayer. The pious and earnest Dear Leader is almost weeping, as he looks down at a child's teddy bear and stands at a children's crossing while all these people WHO HATE AMERICA trample on everything he is doing to MAGA. Our beloved president is the only thing between us and the total destruction of everything we hold dear.
Of course, this isn't the worst picture. I think tat honor goes to Jesus guiding the hand of Donald Trump as he sits at the presidential desk in the Oval Office.
There's a lot of debate about this picture, in truth...is he trying to stop Trump? Guide him? Put a choke hold on him? Who knows what the intent was. But even as many of us have called out that Trump and Jesus Christ have nothing in common, many of his supporters think he is God's man. Some even go so far as to consider him a modern-day Cyrus, somebody whom God used to bless his people. It's ridiculous, to be sure (with the exception being that Cyrus was a pagan, as is POTUS). But there's a solid 38% of Americans who resolutely will not change their allegiance away from this man, and many of them base their faith in him with something akin to religious fervor.
One could go on all day with these kinds of pictures, including this one from an Albanian admirer:
. Yeesh. But all these images really betray almost a pornographic fetish that conservatism is now dead, replaced by a Trumpist ideology that means nothing but the acquisition of power and the hatred of enemies. Trump is bad enough, but his supporters may be even more dangerous than he is.
