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I've been trying to figure out why I'm so agitated by all of the Republican lawmakers calling for unity, opposing impeachment, and trying to quickly put the insurrection behind us, and I realized it's because it's a playbook I know well from anti-LGBTQ conservatives. 1/x
Christian conservatives couch their condemnation of queer identities as a form of love. They want to save our souls, so it's "loving" to reject everything about our IDs that's incompatible with their beliefs and they bear no accountability for the anguish they inflict. 2/x
Freedom — specifically "religious freedom" — is the anti-LGBTQ battle cry, as they insist that their ability to discriminate represents what the founders wanted and that even laws that protect LGBTQ people should still "accommodate" their intolerant beliefs. 3/x
Conversion therapy, better understood as shame-based mental abuse, is defended as providing LGBTQ people with "therapeutic choice." If they consent to believing they can suppress their identities, there's nothing wrong with assisting them by providing it. 4/x
Over and over again, the playbook of anti-LGBTQ conservatives has been to say: Let us do our thing without holding us accountable for the consequences to others. That's what they think "getting along" looks like. We know, of course, it's not. 5/x
Look at Jim Jordan, who thinks the goal should be "unity and healing" accomplished by absolutely no accountability or consequences for the anti-democratic seditionists fomenting violence.
And we know Jim Jordan likes covering up abusive behavior. 6/x https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1347943218902691842
And we know Jim Jordan likes covering up abusive behavior. 6/x https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1347943218902691842
Even the Republicans who *didn't* challenge the election insist another impeachment would be divisive because it wouldn't appease Trump supporters.
What they really mean is that any accountability would be damaging to their political brand. 7/x https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1348032696333774849
What they really mean is that any accountability would be damaging to their political brand. 7/x https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1348032696333774849
It just sounds too familiar, and I'm sure it resonates across a ton of other identities and issues too. Over and over, conservatives just insist: "We're the good guys even though we constantly help the bad guys do bad things. Don't punish us!"
When is enough enough? 8/x
When is enough enough? 8/x
We can't all get along with people whose goal is explicitly to *not get along,* and the entire Republican Party has milked everything they can from Trump's presidency without holding him accountable for anything, and we simply can't tolerate it any longer. 9/x
It can take someone seven or more attempts to remove themselves from abusive relationships. How many lines can we let Republicans cross and still keep treating them like a working relationship is possible? It's textbook abusive behavior we can no longer tolerate. 10/x
As someone who's spent my adult life in the crosshairs of conservatives' abusive behavior, please heed what I and others have been saying and don't trust these foxes with our henhouse. Their preference for "unity" over accountability is a naked promise not to change. 11/11
