_ “If you say the election wasn’t stolen, do you really think you’re going to get hired?" ex-RNC staffer says_

The Republican National Committee is asking prospective job candidates if they believe the 2020 election was stolen in a “litmus tests of sorts” following the Trump-backed purge of the party committee, according to the Washington Post.

Trump advisers have “quizzed” multiple employees who worked in key 2024 states about their views on the 2020 election, according to the report.

“Was the 2020 election stolen?” one prospective employee recalled being asked in a room with two top Trump advisers.

The question has “startled” some potential employees who view it as “questioning their loyalty to Trump,” according to the Post.

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    6 months ago

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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    It’s not insane, it’s exactly how cult leaders operate.

    You’ve got to deny the same reality that the cult does or you’re on the outside.

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      It’s not insane, it’s exactly how cults work.

      As if the two are mutually exclusive… You can be insane without being a member of a cult, but cult membership is by definition not a trait of psychologically healthy people.

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    The RNC being sacked and pillaged by Trump for campaign funding and legal fees is pretty terrible for them, but watching the leopard finally start eating some important faces is incredibly satisfying. They’re never going to financially recover from this.

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    It’s entirely rational when you’re building a cult, to only bring in the most loyal to your control structure.

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    They should just rename it the Trump Loyalist Party and get it over with. I mean they’re already there, might as well stick the orange idiot’s bands on it.

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    Good. These people are useless morons, and it makes me happy that the Republican Party will be staffed entirely by useless morons.

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    Make no mistake about it these malignant narcissistic people are trying to steal the country and using stupid people to do it.

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    My only question is if tin foil hats will become a mandatory part of the dress code, or remain optional.