I wanted to write an addendum to Monster Hunter endless post, but here we are instead.

I was commenting on bluesky how it seems increasingly strange that GOP itself doesn’t react to some of the most unhinged things going on. That they are unbelievably servile. But I don’t think it’s a valid point, and it can actually indicate how this whole way of interpretation is completely wrong.

So I’m offering the way I’m reading it all…

As it happened with Musk Nazi gesture, and as I wrote at that time, there was a main purpose that I guess now is also widely shared: it was meant to troll. But there’s also a second purpose, and it was to compact ranks internally. To regroup on their side. To send an internal signal, distribute an “official” interpretation. To “seed it” and see how it is received. Because by observing the reaction you would immediately know who’s a “traitor.” Who can potentially oppose your power later.

The overall strategy we’ve all seen for the past month+ is actually a very, very old strategy: a purge. There’s a change in the government, someone new takes control and proceeds to purge all positions of power in order to secure that power. In medieval times this would have been simply violent, we’ve seen it exemplified in Games of Thrones and similar. Musk’s “what did you do last week” letter, in his words wasn’t meant to scrutinize, but to simply disguise an attempt to check if the person on the other side was even active enough to read and answer a mail. To find some literal dead ends. But there was another hidden purpose, the same that applied to the internal letter at the time of twitter: to root out POTENTIAL internal dissent. Because you can be sure that there are people in the government that don’t like this thuggish way of doing things and so wouldn’t answer the mail on principle, because they don’t want to bow that low to that arrogance.

That’s precisely the intent: whoever DOESN’T ANSWER the mail is a potential traitor. That mail is a simple test. A deliberate provocation to observe the reaction. Carefully observing who’s out of the line.

It’s just a purge, and it keeps going until Musk completes his idea of “tabula rasa.” They are trying to establish a very, very hard “core” that they can trust. That will be faithful to the regime, no matter what. They are planning “hard times”, and so preparing in order to sustain what is going to happen.

Everything that happened, from that point onward, is to go deep the rabbit hole. Perform the most radical purge possible.

They aren’t fighting Democrats. As I said, it’s a two-pronged strategy, one one side they TAUNT AND TROLL the Democrats, garnering approval from their base, and from the other side they keep PURGING THEIR OWN SIDE. The main fight is internal. The main purge is within the GOP. They are looking for FUTURE traitors in order to neutralize them long before they even THINK of potentially being critical of how things are being run.

It’s all a test. They are carefully observing if someone dares complain, and then neutralize. That’s why it’s an unhinged escalation that keeps going on and on. It gets more absurd in order to progressively tighten the noose.

The GOP is being destroyed, because that’s precisely how they build the regime they want. We’ve seen this already. There’s nothing new about it.

Same old moldy playbook.