the thing about the vances, the hawleys, the cottons and the desantises is that they all have loser energy, meaning they all have politics that seem to emerge from deep seated feelings of social inadequacy and resentment toward people with the status they crave

Tom cottons navy seals copypasta letter to the editor about james risen, which was his first entrance to politics, is so gd pathetic

They also have no political talent

Amen!

Yes - Overcompensation-O-Rama, the default position of the malignant narcissist AND the socially inadequate.

I think I saw someone once call these evil nerd politics.

This is also true of Trump, though he's a bit better at disguising it

Exactly right.

And oddly enough, that’s part of their appeal to Magats.

Showing up to the convention