This article got me thinking about a theory that’s been percolating in the back of my head for a while. Here’s the meat of it:
Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, has twice in the past three days promoted a fictional online rumor that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fled to the United States because of a protest in Ottawa by a group of truck drivers and others opposed to vaccine mandates, Covid-19 restrictions and Trudeau himself.
Roy even called for Trudeau, who was not in the US, to be deported.
So, here’s the theory, which I fully concede I have not fully developed, but there seems to be plenty of evidence for it: The folks who ultimately decide who will become Republican candidates for Congress or Senate prefer drop dead stupid candidates who will simply do what they’re told. The stupidity is a feature and not a bug.
Now, some might argue that Roy was perfectly aware that there wasn’t an ounce of truth in what he was saying, and that he was playing some sort of three dimensional chess strategy to appeal to the MAGAites. I don’t deny that there’s some Republicans out there that are a bit smarter than Roy, and know that they’re lying, but I’m not buying it in Roy’s case. He saw it on the internet, he wanted to believe it, so he did, and he was stupid enough to pass it on even though Trudeau bashing wasn’t likely to be a net plus benefit to him when weighed against the blatant stupidity. But in all likelihood he doesn’t have to worry about any blowback, because he’s from Texas, probably in a safely gerrymandered district where the home folks are perfectly happy to send an idiot to Congress so they can own the libs.
Roy is hardly alone in his stupidity. Louie Gohmert comes to mind as an individual with an IQ that’s likely even lower than Roy’s.
It must be deeply frustrating to be a reasonably intelligent Democratic Congressperson and have to deal with such rank stupidity on a daily basis.
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