People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Conservative Washington Post columnist Max Boot wrote Monday that it is clear the Republican Party has evolved from tea party rage over the government to enthusiastically supporting an authoritarian President Donald Trump.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) took to Twitter last week to advocate against “quartering” protesters, meaning he opposed holding them under arrest or allowing them to stay anywhere. Cotton then advocated that troops should be sent into the streets to take down the protesters.

“There was no conceivable justification for such a draconian move. But Cotton’s panicky, premature demand is symbolic of the Republican Party’s transition from tea party libertarianism to Trumpian authoritarianism,” wrote Boot.

He mocked Republicans for railing against President Barack Obama for executive orders and deficit spending. Now they’re pretending like it never happened.

“The rejection of libertarianism isn’t necessarily a bad thing. What’s worrying is that the Republican Party has become increasingly hostile toward liberal democracy,” wrote Boot, noting that Trump has quickly turned toward a greater degree of authoritarianism in the wake of the protests

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“U.S. conservatism has been drifting in an authoritarian direction for a while. Last week’s demonstrations merely made the danger more manifest.

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Of course, for the boot-licking Trump magatards Boot and other critics aren't 'true conservatives' anymore. Only those fellow authoritarian paranoids qualify as 'true believers'. Sieg Heil