• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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        Not in this context. It could be in a different context, but not this one. The comparison is about how Republicans are willingly subservient to Trump.

        Un·cle Tom ˌəŋ-kəl-ˈtäm. 1. disparaging : a Black person who is overeager to win the approval of whites (as by obsequious behavior or uncritical acceptance of white values and goals) 2. disparaging : a person who is overly subservient to or cooperative with authority.

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    in a party where they are all competing to prostrate themselves in front of a silver-spoon-in-mouth, draft-dodging, tax-evading, pussy-grabbing, serial sexual assaulter, six-times bankrupt, vulgar, bragging, sexist, criminally corrupt, morally bankrupt, compulsive lying, un-American; in-your-face racist, Tim Scott seems to be going for the title of king lickspittle.

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    “I just love you!” Scott said to more laughter from the crowd!

    “That’s why he’s a great politician!” Trump joked.