What happens to the Republican Party now? (1 Viewer)

[MT15]

This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?

 

[bird]

Him framing this as freedom of choice is ironic because much of the “liberal dominance” he wants to crush is letting people live their lives as they see fit in peace
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Leonard Leo, who financed and directed the rightwing takeover of the US supreme court, admitted he wants to “crush liberal dominance” across American society.

“I want to crush liberal dominance,” the dark money impresario told NPR, in an interview published three weeks after Donald Trump’s stunning election win.

Leo added that he wanted to “make sure that there’s a level playing field for the American people to make choices about the lives that they want to have in their country”.

“I’m perfectly happy having a world where people can make choices between various kinds of things. But what I don’t want is a system where our entertainment system or our world of news media or our business and finance worlds are heavily dominated by left ideology that either chokes out other ways of thinking about things, or that just creates a system where sort of inappropriate political and policy decisions are being made in places where politics and policy don’t really have a proper place,” he said.……..

Trump adviser who funded supreme court takeover wants to ‘crush liberal dominance’

Leonard Leo, rightwing billionaire who helped install conservative justices, outlines second term ambitionsUS politics – live updates

www.theguardian.com

Not going to say what I think.

 

[bird]

Bolding mine, and that's the real reason
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Florida state Rep. Susan Valdés announced Monday she is defecting to the Republican Party — immediately after being re-elected as a Democrat.

Valdés, a Cuban-American lawmaker who was raised by immigrants in New York, represents a Tampa area district.

"I have spent my adult life fighting to give a voice to the people of my West Tampa home," she wrote. "I have done so as a Democrat partly out of habit — I come from a family of Democrats — and partly because I believed the Democrats were the party most concerned with the working families I represent."

However, she added, "I will not waste my final two years in the Florida Legislature being ignored in a caucus whose leadership expects me to ignore the needs of my community."

"I will continue to fight every day to benefit the people of West Tampa, Hillsborough County and the state of Florida," she concluded. "And in my heart, I know the best way to do that is to stand with Speaker [Daniel] Perez and join the Republican supermajority in the Florida House of Representatives.

Valdés did not explicitly list a reason for abandoning Democrats in her statement. However, it comes just a week after she lost a campaign to chair the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee.

Furthermore, last year, she was one of a small handful of Democrats who crossed the aisle to support a massive school voucher program championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. This was also a precipitating issue cited by North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham, who also infamously defected to the GOP last year, giving the party there a supermajority in the legislature that they narrowly lost this year, as well as Georgia state Rep. Mesha Mainor, who was defeated after defecting in the election last month.

Critics have said school voucher programs, touted as giving parents "choice" to move their tax dollars to private education, consistently worsen education outcomes while enriching a small group of wealthy parents already outside the public school system..............

MSN

Right. Because the radicalized Republicans have her community’s needs in mind.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Bolding mine, and that's the real reason
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Florida state Rep. Susan Valdés announced Monday she is defecting to the Republican Party — immediately after being re-elected as a Democrat.

Valdés, a Cuban-American lawmaker who was raised by immigrants in New York, represents a Tampa area district.

"I have spent my adult life fighting to give a voice to the people of my West Tampa home," she wrote. "I have done so as a Democrat partly out of habit — I come from a family of Democrats — and partly because I believed the Democrats were the party most concerned with the working families I represent."

However, she added, "I will not waste my final two years in the Florida Legislature being ignored in a caucus whose leadership expects me to ignore the needs of my community."

"I will continue to fight every day to benefit the people of West Tampa, Hillsborough County and the state of Florida," she concluded. "And in my heart, I know the best way to do that is to stand with Speaker [Daniel] Perez and join the Republican supermajority in the Florida House of Representatives.

Valdés did not explicitly list a reason for abandoning Democrats in her statement. However, it comes just a week after she lost a campaign to chair the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee.

Furthermore, last year, she was one of a small handful of Democrats who crossed the aisle to support a massive school voucher program championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. This was also a precipitating issue cited by North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham, who also infamously defected to the GOP last year, giving the party there a supermajority in the legislature that they narrowly lost this year, as well as Georgia state Rep. Mesha Mainor, who was defeated after defecting in the election last month.

Critics have said school voucher programs, touted as giving parents "choice" to move their tax dollars to private education, consistently worsen education outcomes while enriching a small group of wealthy parents already outside the public school system..............

MSN

 

[MT15]

The GOP is officially the party of trying to disenfranchise voters if that’s what it takes to win:

North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted.

Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in 2019 and 2020.

www.propublica.org

 

[bird]

The GOP is officially the party of trying to disenfranchise voters if that’s what it takes to win:

North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted.

Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in 2019 and 2020.

www.propublica.org

He either lacks enough self-awareness to realize the hypocrisy or he simple doesn’t give a damn.

 

[fooferdoggie]

this fits trump and the republican party so well.

 

[Dragon]

Interesting and thought provoking article on a day like this


Twenty Lessons On Tyranny - From the Twentieth Century

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyde...y?r=3lefz2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email