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Your father’s GOP is dead and buried. Lindsay Graham said it best – “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.” They have sold their souls to the devil, who they believe is the messiah. There are almost no Republicans remaining in the mold of Dick Lugar, Doc Bowen or Bill Hudnut. If one does not pledge total and complete loyalty to Trump, one is labeled a “RINO” and will not succeed in today’s GOP.
Isn’t it wonderful? Dick Lugar and Bill Hudnut were certainly standard-bearers and were the right figures for their party at that time, much like JFK was in the 1960s and Clinton in the 1990s for the Democrats.
But the neo-con ethos has strangulated the Republican party for a good 30+ years, and while nobody expects them to quit without a fight, we didn’t expect quite the “poor quality candidates” financial mismanagement on the part of Cocaine Mitch that would deliberately undermine good candidates in many states, all for the sake of saving his vulnerable crony Lisa Murkowski in Alaska–who is fundamentally indistinct from both Liz Cheney and Nancy Pelosi. They probably all went out for “girls lunch” at Panera (or the billionaire’s equivalent to Panera) each Tuesday, along with Amy Klobuchar as number four.
Just a friendly reminder to the morally panicked neo-libs who dominated this site: it was Lindsey-windsey Graham who wanted a blanket ban on abortions, not one of those MAGA Chuds. In fact, #45 told the GOP they need to chill out on abortion now that Roe v Wade is overturned. It was the neo-cons who wanted to push it further. (Granted, many of us think they deliberately did it to embolden Dems and help ensure GOP defeat in places where McConnell’s “low quality candidates” might win.)
And, of course, there are those other positions that the “far-right” holds that are just so strange:
– seeking an end to warmongering and America’s grotesque military interference in Second/Third World countries
– reigning in the power of megacorporations and their unholy influence on federal political campaigns
– challenging regressive finance schemes that disproportionately hurt the working and lower-middle class and favor the elites (student debt forgiveness comes to mind)
MAGA would cease to exist in a matter of two weeks if the uniparty would actually start representing political interests of ordinary people, most of whom are 5-10 paychecks away from destitution. Because that characterizes the middle class, which is still a majority of the population, at least for now.
If the far right actually cared about limiting corporations, how come they never seem to care about campaign finance reform and SuperPAC’s?
If they cared about the cost of higher education, why wouldn’t they do something other than just work on destroying it?
If they actually cared about limiting wars, why wouldn’t they pick up a history book and see that withdrawing ends up being a worse play than engaging?
Occurs to me they aren’t interested in any of that. They want to be the new uniparty, even though Gaetz has laid bare that their only skill is destroying things, not building them. They are domestic terrorists doing the work of Putin or Xi.
MAGA is about destroying America and replacing it with your average 1980’s Central American “democracy” in its place.
I love Lauren’s points and how Trump did not accomplish a single item around them aside from reversing some during his 4 years – get excited for your taxes to go up jan1 under the trump tax laws if you make 50-150k…
I have a bad feeling this clown is going to get the nod. Moderate Republicans, especially those in blue states, will be threatened with having campaign funding support yanked away, and maybe facing a primary MAGA opponent.
Yes, the Republican party of the past (but not my father; he was an ardent Democrat though he supported Hudnut and Lugar) is gone. The circus tent that replaced it cannot govern, they can only destroy.
I humbly suggest that when this clown gets out of the clown car that the spectacularly failed Republican Party nominate Representative John Doe to be the next speaker. Here’s a tip for all the self-described fiscal conservatives: please return your paychecks since you are so busy not doing your jobs. As if…
Surely there are at least five Republican representatives NOT running for reelection in 2024…if five got together and cut a deal with the Democrats, then THAT would be “democracy in action”.
Charlie Brown kicked the football!
Now, three weeks until the government shuts down because Republicans will throw a tantrum unless they get everything they want with no compromises. It’s like negotiating with terrorists … just don’t do it.