Just yesterday Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) reacted to the Freedom Caucus voting against Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House during an interview with Fox News host Guy Benson.
Crenshaw said he believes the GOP opposition will also vote against members such as Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who some are saying could be an alternative to McCarthy.
The following were his exact words:
"We just can't allow that to happen. That's why those of us are saying, 'Look, you pushed into this corner so now we're saying we won't vote for anyone but McCarthy.' That's why we're saying it because we cannot let the terrorists win. That's basically what's happening,"
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1610744445917401118?
The day before yesterday Crenshaw said the following about his dissenting colleagues
"I’m tired of your stupid platitudes that some consultant told you to say on the campaign trail, alright. Behind closed doors tell us what you actually want, or shut the f@#% up."
"It’s almost like they want to make the point that they don’t have a plan. They have zero ability to articulate what they want that would cause them to vote yes. It is utterly confusing, and then they get mad at us for criticizing, it’s actually quite hilarious the self-victimization that occurs."
To summarize he first called his colleagues dimwitted and inarticulate, then he branded them, terrorists. Crenshaw was using Democrat talking points to demean and attack his own colleagues.
This isn’t the first time Crenshaw used pejorative epithets that emanated from the sewers of the Democrat propaganda machinery to target his party members.
Last May, Crenshaw sparred on Twitter with GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia regarding U.S. aid being dispatched to Ukraine
Greene was skeptical about dispatching funds to Ukraine when the US was struggling on myriad fronts such as record-high inflation, the influx of millions of illegal immigrants and the smuggling of illicit fentanyl into the US via the open border, the shortage of baby formula due to the supply chain crisis and the crime wave.
Greene was keen to focus on national issues before dispatching billions of taxpayers' dollars and advanced weaponry to Ukraine with no transparency or accountability measures.
Greene challenged Crenshaw for supporting a proxy war against Russia.
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1524484621278363649
Instead of explaining his rationale for supporting the war in Ukraine, Crenshaw retorted by implying that Green was a Russian agent.
https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1524497730827173892
Greene responded by reminding Crenshaw that she was focused more on issues that affect regular Americans.
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1524515830645633025
Last January, Crenshaw blasted Greene as "a Democrat" or "just an idiot" when challenged his suggestion of using the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help improve the COVID-19 testing process throughout the country.
In December 2021, Crenshaw branded members of the House Freedom Caucus as "performance artists" and "grifters" and Rep. Adam Kinzinger whose final tenure was dedicated to attacking Trump and pushing the insurrection hoax.
Crenshaw also went on MSNBC to call Biden a legitimate president, defend the results of the 2020 presidential elections, and reject claims that electoral fraud had occurred.
A difference of opinion in any political party is healthy. There must be debates and discussions. But what Crenshaw was engaging in wasn’t debate but scurrilous attacks.
So let's dig deeper to comprehend why Crenshaw is doing this.
Crenshaw is probably from that group of Republicans who desperately want to be regarded as "one of the good ones" by the Democrats.
Crenshaw is probably from that group of Republicans that craves favorable mentions in Democrat mouthpieces such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and MSNBC?
There is nothing more the Democrats and the news media love than a Republican attacking other Republicans. They are particularly gleeful when the target is MAGA Republicans.
In Crenshaw’s case, it is even better, it is a MAGA Republican attacking other MAGA Republicans. It gives the Democrats and the news media a chance to claim ‘even MAGA Republicans have had enough of the 'extremist' Trump wing of the GOP.
It gives the media a chance to claim, that they are not against the Republicans but only the loony, dimwitted, and bigoted wing of the party.
CNN called Crenshaw a teller of inconvenient truths when he attacked the Freedom Caucus of his party.
In return for attacking his colleagues, the D.C. Democrat swamp could facilitate lucrative deals for Crenshaw.
Crenshaw already has a book deal that he signed for which he received $250,000 in advance and made over $100,000 in book royalties. The National Republican Congressional Committee bought $394,000 worth of what it simply called “books” from a Washington, D.C. retailer.
There could be many similar lucrative deals for documentaries or podcasts. If Crenshaw quits or loses he could become a media pundit much like Adam Kinzinger.
The other possibility is that Crenshaw has a genuine disdain for regular working-class American
We see that very often, liberal 'elites' with a superiority complex display a condescending attitude towards regular citizens, particularly those residing in middle America.
D.C. is particularly scornful perhaps because they see these citizens as impediments to the permanence of power.
This attitude also prevails in showbiz, the likes of Stephen Colbert symbolize that smug disdain for working Americans.
There have been myriad instances of Crenshaw attacking MAGA Republicans. It proves that his utterances were not accidental or the result of momentary frustration or anger. The disdain seems visceral. Funnily enough, Crenshaw has never used foul language or derogatory labels for the Democrats.
Do the likes of Crenshaw not realize that for the modern Democrats, a Republican will always be the enemy? No matter how hard they try, they will always be uncouth, racist, sexist, xenophobic, and white nationalists in the eye of the Democrats. While they attack their own, they are useful idiots for Democrats. They may be invited to the party but will only get a seat in a lonely corner of the room. They will always be second-class citizens who have to apologize for their existence.
Perhaps for the likes of Crenshaw, pecuniary gains trump personal pride.
The Democrats probably see the unprincipled and globalist Republicans such as Crenshaw as their best chance to retain power despite losing electorally in the midterms. The 'R' after Crenshaw's name is merely a mask.
Perhaps Crenshaw was accusing others of what he is guilty of. He called MAGA Republicans performance artists and grifters, Perhaps it is Crenshaw who is the one pretending all along for electoral gains? He probably saw MAGA as the ideal platform to get elected, but once he revealed his true colors.
In the end, the likes of Crenshaw turn out to be unreliable and disloyal allies which are worse than a sworn enemy. You expect treachery from your enemies, not your allies.
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