They also hate your kids. If they liked your kids, they would support paid maternity leave, free health care, free child care, better public schools, and they would do everything in their power to enact stricter gun control laws so that schoolchildren don’t get routinely slaughtered en masse. They hate all of those ideas. They even hate teachers. You ever meet a teacher? They’re fucking saints, man. It doesn’t matter. Republicans hate them and would rather die than pay teachers a living wage.

In fact, they don’t just hate your kids, they hate your grandchildren as well. If Republicans gave the thinnest of shits about your grandkids, they would act with incredible haste on every Defcon 1 climate report that says we’re doomed if we don’t stop humping carbon to death. But they don’t. They hate the Earth, they hate the future, and they HATE any report that might dare ask them to take a break from pillaging the lands. Those reports go right into the shredder.

And they hate reporters too. Of course they hate reporters. A reporter just got kidnapped, tortured, and dismembered by Saudi Arabia (the country that was home to the majority of 9/11 hijackers, mind you). Did Republicans give a shit? Of course not. This is because they hate reporters. They get so much mileage out of hating reporters, it’s almost impressive. Why, it’s as if breeding hate and resentment is the only thing they do competently! They hate facts. They hate whistleblowers. They hate the truth. They don’t even like QUESTIONS. How dare you ask a Republican a question? That’s really rude. The president thinks you should be body slammed. If Republican leaders liked answering for shit, they would hold more town halls. Instead, they fuck off back to their home states and huddle up with their donors.

The troops? Republicans hate the troops. They love war, but hate the troops. If they really supported the troops, they wouldn’t render them disposable heroes in for-profit wars, and they would use the hundreds of billions we spend annually on defense on mine detectors, a better VA, and other basic military needs. Ask yourself: Where the hell does all that money go if it doesn’t go to the troops?

What about investors? Now there’s one sector of America that Republicans have to love, right? Stocks! Bonds! JOBS JOBS JOBS! Again, you are wrong. They hate investors. If they liked investors, they would put restrictor plates on the banks and make it impossible for the circumstances that caused the 2008 crash to ever happen again. Of course, that’s not what Republicans did. Instead, they made defrauding investors easier than ever. That way, when the next crash hits, a cherished few will somehow manage to survive and profit while everyone else will be left wiped out and miserable.

They hate Democratic leaders, of course. Although I would argue that Republicans should ADORE Democratic leadership, given that Chuck Schumer puts up about as much resistance as the French Army. Schumer is so fucking useless and so painfully oblivious of Republican nihilism, the only viable explanation for his idiocy is that he’s joined the other side. Mitch McConell is Satan if Satan were better at his job, and yet Democratic leaders still treat him like a person who deserves actual respect. And McConnell still hates their guts anyway. It’s really quite something. Even when you offer a Republican leader friendship, they spit it out like it’s poison.

"Republicans have fully embraced being the party of hate, and parties of hate have fully embraced them. Anyone who supports them is either an agent of hate or someone seeking to make an easy buck."

It’s been very difficult for Democrats to dial in on a core point during this election cycle. This is because Democrats are clueless, and it’s also because it’s hard to sum up the past two years when there’s been a scandal every day and a lie every minute. It’s been awful; a living nightmare for millions. And it may be for misbegotten strategic reasons, or it may be due to their eternal hard-on for mythical unity, but Democrats seem hellbent on refusing to publicly acknowledge what has been made all too evident: Republicans have fully embraced being the party of hate, and parties of hate have fully embraced them. Anyone who supports them is either an agent of hate or someone seeking to make an easy buck (the latter especially holds true for garbage media people like Mike Allen and Megyn Kelly).