Shorter Josh Treviño: “Smear the Queer”
I know it’s shocking that conservatives would support both bullying and homophobia. In case you had forgotten this, allow me to present you with Josh Treviño’s response to this story of Romney being a homophobic bully in high school. Among his tweets on it include:
What this ludicrous story on Young Mitt represents is the intersection of the political hit piece with the anti-bullying hysteria.
And
I actually feel better about Mitt, knowing he’ll forcibly cut hippies’ hair:
Now, one can debate the relevance of a story about a presidential candidate in high school, although bullying tendencies at age 15 don’t always go away. But as Ezra Klein pointed out in another tweet, “the reactions are telling us some disturbing things about others.” Indeed they are. They remind us that conservatives love bullying and they love homophobia. And that includes supposedly serious and respectable conservative Josh Treviño.