Oh please, oh please, oh please please please baby Jesus please let this turn into a Twitter war.

In my last article I wrote about how stupid it is for liberals to be siding with neocons like Dick Cheney and John McCain all of a sudden just because they're opposing Donald Trump, wherein I wrote of McCain, "This eighty year-old Senator is bound and determined to start World War 3 before his prostate explodes." Little did I realize that around the same time I was typing these words, the President of the United States was furiously tweeting the following:

Ha! How sweet is that? Tell me that doesn't make you just a teensy bit happy that Trump won. This is everything the average Trump voter was hoping for; just toss the reality TV star and WWE Hall-of-Famer in with the Washington elites and watch him smash stuff like a bull in a china shop. For ages I've been dying to hear someone in power call these bloodthirsty war criminals what they are, to just say "Oh shut up, you only want death and destruction, go away," and now finally that's happened. It hasn't happened how I was hoping, and it certainly hasn't happened how I was expecting, but by God it happened, and now the slow death of the Republican party can commence. Praise Kek and hallelujah, let us dance and piss on its grave.

In September of last year, Chris Hayes had a panel on MSNBC which included a conservative pundit, and they all agreed that if Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, the GOP would become too fragmented and radicalized to function. And boy howdy if their prediction isn't coming true. The neocons are opposing Trump's unconventional extremism in favor of their own more mainstream extremism at every turn, and battle lines are being drawn right out in the open for everyone to see.

If there's anything funnier than watching Lindsey Graham pretending to be heterosexual, it's watching neocons pretending to care about Muslims. These plutocratic hobgoblins have violently ended more Muslim lives than there are stars in the night sky, they're salivating over the prospect of murdering millions more, and we're supposed to believe they care about a few Libyans and Somalis being able to enter the United States?

No, the neocons have not suddenly developed a conscience and a set of morals, and no, they did not suddenly start caring about immigrants and Muslims. They're picking a point where they can claim the moral high ground in a political proxy battle within the larger proxy fight being waged for control of the Republican party. The stand they're taking has nothing to do with a desire to fight Islamophobia (these men have built their careers on Islamophobia); what they're doing is taking a righteous posture in public and pointing at how awful Trump is compared to them.

Which, for normal healthy human beings, would not be hard to do. Anyone you pick off the street would likely be able to claim the moral high ground over Trump in any number of areas, but these are neocons we're talking about. These are the guys who've cheered on every despicable act of military interventionism by every administration in recent memory, Republican or Democrat. The guys who are actively pushing to elevate tensions with a nuclear superpower by calling the alleged Russian hacking non-issue an "act of war", demanding further sanctions and calling for a no-fly zone in Syria which would necessarily entail shooting down Russian military planes as a matter of policy. These aren't healthy human beings, and they have no business trying to claim the moral high ground on anything.

The conflict is happening because the agendas of the neocons and the Trumpite nationalists could not be more diametrically opposed in a number of crucial areas. Just like Hillary Clinton, who is herself nothing other than a neocon with a pro-choice bumper sticker, the neocons dream of "open trade and open borders," where America is up to its elbows in the affairs of the rest of the world, politically, economically, and militarily. Trump has been consistently advocating a rollback of American interventionism, to the point of being increasingly (and inaccurately) accused of isolationism. He's been killing the predatory trade deals the neocons adore, and far from "open trade with open borders," he's been threatening businesses with penalties for moving US jobs overseas. So we've got ourselves a political proxy fight.

Which is of course awesome. We on the left get to just grab some popcorn, kick back and watch the fun. Both sides suck so it barely matters who wins, and there's a possibility they'll rip each other apart so bad the whole diseased party collapses in on itself. It's a privilege we should relish, because we progressives have a proxy fight of our own to deal with on our side of the aisle which will get even uglier if we do it right.

But for now, let's enjoy the spectacle. It's what the good people of America voted for, after all.

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