Opinion | Charlie Sykes: How Devin Nunes' absurd defense of Trump has redefined partisan hackery - NBCNewsTHINK
and tweeting that: “Devin’s boots are full of manure. He’s udder-ly worthless and its pasture time to move him to prison.”
Old-fashioned hackery generally consisted of loyalty and a willingness to take one for the party, because hacks were concerned with self-preservation. But the thing about this form of hackery is that there were limits — a point beyond which even the most devoted hack would not go. It is one thing to defend their party’s president against his partisan foes. This is hardly unprecedented.
There are two possibilities here: Nunes knows that he is cynically using Trump-friendly talking points because they play well on Fox News, or he actually believes this fetid mass of falsehoods because, as Slate’s Will Saletan told me, “he’s been using his own product.” It’s not clear which is worse, but the question goes to the essence of the new hackery.
In Nunes’s world, coherence and truth are not the point; his disjointed non-sequiturs make for easily digested soundbites and video clips. Reality is what you make it in the newly Trumpified GOP.
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