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?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Doesn't the GOP have an issue with political indoctrination in school? And this is in California



....Christina McFadden was on her lunch break on Feb. 18 when she saw the video. She spotted her daughter in the crowd.

“My initial reaction was fear,” McFadden, 35, told The Washington Post in a Facebook Messenger exchange. “Fear that this was sent to 14 families with differing views. Fear that it appeared to be a political propaganda video and that it would spread as such with my daughter front and center.”....

..........“[The video] did not share our school and church philosophy of honoring and respecting authority including those in government positions,” Linda Solorzano, the preschool director, wrote in the note, which was reviewed by The Post.

“We are sorry for any misunderstanding this could [have] created,” she added. “With courtesy toward the families of our campus and the children in the classroom I am asking you to please not share with others or post the video on any social media platform.”........

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/23/turning-point-christian-school-biden-chant/

 

[MT15]

 

[DaveXA]

Until a majority of Republicans stand up and denounce the rabid nonsense, we'll be in a bad place in this country. Trump is Putin lite.

 

[MT15]

 

[Optimus Prime]

For what it's worth

He did say that he loved the poorly educated after all
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.........Sherkat observes that Trump support has been linked to religion and level of education, but until now not to "cognitive sophistication," which was found "to have a positive effect on voting, but a negative effect on choosing Trump." He notes that "philosophers and political elites have debated the potential effects of mass political participation" for generations, concerned "about the unsophisticated masses coming under the sway of a demagogue."

In effect, this debate was always about the quality he calls cognitive sophistication, since citizens who lack it "may not be able to understand and access reliable and valid information about political issues and may be vulnerable to political propaganda":

Low levels of cognitive sophistication may lead people to embrace simple cognitive shortcuts, like stereotypes and prejudices that were amplified by the Trump campaign. Additionally, the simple linguistic style presented by Trump may have appealed to voters with limited education and cognitive sophistication. Beginning with [T.W.] Adorno's classic study of the authoritarian personality, empirical works have linked low levels of cognitive sophistication with right-wing orientations....
Trump's campaign may also have been more attractive to people with low cognitive sophistication and a preference for low-effort information processing because compared to other candidates Trump's speeches were given at a much lower reading level…. While much of the Trump campaign's rhetoric and orientation may have resonated with the poorly educated and cognitively unsophisticated, those overlapping groups are less likely to register to vote or to turn out in an election.

As part of his research, Sherkat evaluated the political decision-making and cognition of Trump's voters, using a 10-point vocabulary exam. In a guest essay at the website Down with Tyranny, he explains what this vocabulary test revealed about white Trump voters:

Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trump. Only 35% of people who had a perfect score on the exam are predicted to be Trump supporters.
Notably, this very strong, significant effect of verbal ability can be identified within educational groups. While non-college whites certainly turned out more heavily for Trump, the smart ones did not — only 38% of those with perfect scores are expected to go for Trump, and only 46% of non-college graduates who scored a standard deviation above the mean. The same is true for college graduates — low cognition college graduates were more likely to vote for Trump. ...
What is really depressing isn't just the poles of the vocabulary exam, it's the average. The mean and median of the scale is 6 — so half of white Americans missed 4 of the easy vocabulary questions.

Sherkat's research also explored how religion impacted support for Donald Trump among white voters: "This study confirms that white Americans with fundamentalist views of the Bible and those who embrace identifications with sectarian Protestant denominations tended to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.".........

MSN

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[Optimus Prime]

From the same article and I believe this is where a large part of the issue

In 2016 there was an article talking about this that. We can see how the states voted ad even how the counties voted but when it's broken down even further to city or neighborhoods there were a lot where 80-90%+ voted for one way or the other.

There was actually a term for these area, and for the life of me I can't remember what it was
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Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, Trump supporters and Trump-loathers, increasingly do not live in the same neighborhoods or communities. In all, they largely do not socialize with each other, or have other forms of meaningful interpersonal relationships in day-to-day life......

 

[Taurus]

For what it's worth

He did say that he loved the poorly educated after all
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.........Sherkat observes that Trump support has been linked to religion and level of education, but until now not to "cognitive sophistication," which was found "to have a positive effect on voting, but a negative effect on choosing Trump." He notes that "philosophers and political elites have debated the potential effects of mass political participation" for generations, concerned "about the unsophisticated masses coming under the sway of a demagogue."

In effect, this debate was always about the quality he calls cognitive sophistication, since citizens who lack it "may not be able to understand and access reliable and valid information about political issues and may be vulnerable to political propaganda":


As part of his research, Sherkat evaluated the political decision-making and cognition of Trump's voters, using a 10-point vocabulary exam. In a guest essay at the website Down with Tyranny, he explains what this vocabulary test revealed about white Trump voters:


Sherkat's research also explored how religion impacted support for Donald Trump among white voters: "This study confirms that white Americans with fundamentalist views of the Bible and those who embrace identifications with sectarian Protestant denominations tended to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.".........

MSN

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There's a grim interpretation of that study for Democrats. On one end, only 27% would vote against Trump and on the other side, only 65% would vote against him.
Ye gods but the Democratic Party is toxic.

 

[MT15]

 

[MT15]

These are mainstream R politicians. They’re irredeemable, IMO. They all need to go.

 

[MT15]

 

[DaveXA]

Yeah, and more than a few will rationalize it by saying that Democrats do the same thing for the left wing. It's certainly isn't a valid equivalence, but you know that's what they'll say.

 

[MT15]

There’s nothing like a left wing QAnon.

 

[MT15]

The wife of a sitting SC Justice is bat shirt crazy and into QAnon:

“The video Thomas shared with Meadows is no longer available on YouTube. But Thomas wrote to Meadows, “I hope this is true; never heard anything like this before, or even a hint of it. Possible???”
“Watermarked ballots in over 12 states have been part of a huge Trump & military white hat sting operation in 12 key battleground states,” she wrote.

During that period, supporters of the QAnon extremist ideology embraced a false theory that Trump had watermarked mail-in ballots so he could track potential fraud. “Watch the water” was a refrain in QAnon circles at the time.

In the Nov. 5 message to Meadows, Thomas went on to quote a passage that had circulated on right-wing websites: “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.””

 

[MT15]

Wow:

 

[coldseat]

Wow:

It never surprises me how many hate group there are in America that claim to be political action committee's or forums. Literally thousands.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Looks like they used a capital "D" by mistake
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House Republicans have yet to release their promised election-year agenda, but they are road testing a new campaign slogan down here in Florida: Can you afford a Democratic government?

The question has been deployed as a catchall phrase at the House Republican retreat this week for blaming Democrats for inflation and high gas prices, a spike in drug overdoses Republican argue is due to lenient border policies and the increasing power of Big Tech.

“The real answer is we cannot afford it,” Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) said Wednesday on the retreat's first day. “We will act differently. This Congress will be different. It will be focused on solutions and we’re willing to work with anybody that wants to work on solutions.”

That assertion is sure to be met with skepticism from Democrats.............

MSN

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[MT15]

The real question is can our representative republic survive if Rs win?

 

[MT15]

This level of dishonesty about our very system of government cannot be rewarded at the ballot box. Not and keep our freedoms, anyway. People who are this dishonest do not deserve to be elected.