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There's 2 types of right wingers, dumb ones and disingenuous ones.
Scared, stupid and selfish. The 3S framework of conservatism. You don't have to be all 3 to be conservative, but you're at least one.
Nice, I'd say the first two of those terms apply mostly to the dumb ones.
The disingenuous ones take advantage of the stupidity of the others to induce fear to facilitate manipulation.
Isn't the third type democrats?
No, most non-progressive dems would qualify as being disingenuous. The progressive ones that still call themselves dems aren't right wing, they're naive.
Money laundering via book 'sales' isnt something confined to republicans
All politicians have books.....a single person is free to buy 10,000 copies, book seller gets a cut and politicians get the rest..... 100% legal, clean profit. And the person that bought 10k copies gets access to said politicians