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"It wasn't that long ago that Trump would get up at his speeches and say "Kung Flu!" and the crowd would go wild like he was Freddy Mercury. If Biden ever said "Kung Flu," they'd be absolutely outraged."

Conservatives have fully committed to hypocrisy as a world view. They believe that what makes you moral or immoral is who you are, not what you do. If you’re in their in-group everything you do is moral, and if you’re in their out group everything you do is immoral *even if it’s the same thing*.

That’s why evangelicals embraced Trump once they decided he was in the in-group - because they never had any real moral beliefs about actions, their beliefs essentially boil down to “us vs them.” Their morality is as simple as “one of us” or “not one of us” and all the stuff they say their morality is based on, what actions are sinful etc., is just so much hot air.

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