Politics: Beware the Tolerant Right

There tends to be a lot heard from the conservative side about the intolerant left. What they mean by that is that they paint the Democrats as the party of cancel culture and wanting to get rid of anything and everything that they don’t like. They hate us while claiming that we are the side that is the only one full of much hate. But what can be worse than the supposed intolerant side of one party is what the other side, in this case, conservatives, tolerate and let people get away with. Thus, I’m coining a new term called the tolerant right.

The question easily becomes, what will the right not tolerate? That is hard to tell for sure. But there is a lot that they do. When their president is racist, they have no problems saying that he isn’t that by ignoring or belittling what he says or does, pointing out the one bad thing that Biden said regarding race within the past year, and be completely okay with any of the minorities in their own party being used to promote this fiction. All of the black Republicans telling people at the Republican National Convention that Trump isn’t racist were all part of this.

While the problem of the tolerant right is largely limited to how they view Trump, this is still a big problem for them that they aren’t going to overcome any time soon. I mean, they knew that he did wrong when he was impeached the first time. Yet all but one of them voted to acquit him of the crime and let him get away with it. I’m still waiting for Trump to shoot someone on Fifth Ave. to hear all of the people talk about how this person had it coming and Trump was in his right to do that. It could happen.

Look at the storming of the capitol. Only one politician changed their mind about changing their vote for what is effectively sedition. And it is worth noting that this person was voted out of office the previous day, with their seat no longer being occupied by her. What’s worse about the vote is that more people voted against overturning the results the second time around. Even if they were worried about threats on their lives, it still shows that they won’t stand up for what they know is right because if they did, they wouldn’t let this happen. 

Let’s face it, the tolerant right is quite a terrible thing as they will let those in their party get rid of any of their own rules when they no longer benefit them and then make the claim that it was the Democrat’s fault that things had to be that way. If it is their own party, there is not much that they won’t tolerate. Surely, something they did wrong would count against them. But they are far too tolerant of the wrongdoing in their own party while being perfectly fine with the racists being their supporters or tons of other things going wrong as well.