Republicans Burn the Republican Party Down to the Ground

[Schlank]

The conservative base is easily ignited through networks of right-wing media. So, what started as the party of equality turned to the 1994 Gingrich Revolution, then the Tea Party and eventually to Donald Trump.

Cobb noted that the most telling thing about the GOP was the Republican Party Platform that was unveiled in the 2020 convention. "The Convention was centered almost solely on Trump; the events, all of which took place at the White House, validated an increasing suspicion that Trump himself was the Republican platform. Practically speaking, the refusal to articulate concrete positions spared the Party the embarrassment of watching the President contradict them," Cobb explained.

During the 2016 campaign, Christian evangelicals were able to add anti-pornography pieces to their party platform only to have the party's nominee be outed for having an affair with an adult film star. Without a platform, however, the GOP can't be caught in hypocrisy.


The problem now, is that there are no ideas, only the "Party of no," wrote Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle over the weekend. They oppose the COVID-19 stimulus bill, the increase in the minimum wage and shoring up voting rights so all American citizens are able to participate in the election without barriers.

"A once-proud movement risks turning into one perpetual, primal scream: 'I'm not gonna, and you can't make me,'" McArdle wrote. "That is not a movement; it is a second adolescence. And whatever the merits of masks or reopening, that reflexively oppositional impulse is unhealthy — for conservatives, and for America."

Cobb made a similar assessment, noting that the moderate wing of the GOP has become marginalized. "In addition, the G.O.P.'s steady drift toward the right, from conservative to reactionary politics; its dependence on older, white voters; its reliance on right-wing media; its support for tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans; and its increasing disdain for democratic institutions and norms all portend increasing division and a diminishing pool of voters."

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-changed-revenge-kooks/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Articulate_and_Analytical]

When every Senate Republican voted against President Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue package over the weekend, it revived a question that analysts have asked about the modern GOP for decades: Why do so many conservative Americans vote against their own economic interests?

A new analysis by three leading political scientists theorizes this question in a fresh way: by comprehensively analyzing the political economy of red states, relative to that of blue ones. In so doing, they have captured some striking truths about this political moment.

Its key finding: We’re in the grip of a paradox. Even as areas that vote Republican continue falling behind blue America economically — helping widen those oft-discussed regional inequalities between cosmopolitan and outlying areas — GOP elites everywhere are growing more committed to an increasingly uniform and regressive agenda that does little to address the problem.

“Red America is falling farther behind, but the politicians who represent it at all levels have gotten more unified on an economic agenda that hurts the people who live there,” Jacob Hacker, the Yale political scientist who co-authored the analysis, told me.

The $1.9 trillion package includes large stimulus checks to most individuals, extended unemployment benefits, a big infusion of aid to state governments, and a new child cash allowance that could cut childhood poverty in half.

Every Senate and House Republican voted against the package. Yet this sort of ambitious agenda will help address the deepening regional inequalities that have become such an intense preoccupation in our politics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/08/study-political-economy-red-states/

 

[DeluxAuto]

When every Senate Republican voted against President Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue package over the weekend, it revived a question that analysts have asked about the modern GOP for decades: Why do so many conservative Americans vote against their own economic interests?

A new analysis by three leading political scientists theorizes this question in a fresh way: by comprehensively analyzing the political economy of red states, relative to that of blue ones. In so doing, they have captured some striking truths about this political moment.

Its key finding: We’re in the grip of a paradox. Even as areas that vote Republican continue falling behind blue America economically — helping widen those oft-discussed regional inequalities between cosmopolitan and outlying areas — GOP elites everywhere are growing more committed to an increasingly uniform and regressive agenda that does little to address the problem.

“Red America is falling farther behind, but the politicians who represent it at all levels have gotten more unified on an economic agenda that hurts the people who live there,” Jacob Hacker, the Yale political scientist who co-authored the analysis, told me.

The $1.9 trillion package includes large stimulus checks to most individuals, extended unemployment benefits, a big infusion of aid to state governments, and a new child cash allowance that could cut childhood poverty in half.

Every Senate and House Republican voted against the package. Yet this sort of ambitious agenda will help address the deepening regional inequalities that have become such an intense preoccupation in our politics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/08/study-political-economy-red-states/

White trash hillbillies still believe in Trickle Down Economics and they vote.

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

t was less than two weeks ago that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz promised the Conservative Political Action Conference that the GOP will be "the party of steel workers and construction workers and pipeline workers and taxi cabdrivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and the men and women with calluses on their hands who are working for this country."

Yet on Saturday afternoon, Cruz and 48 of his Republican colleagues raised their uncalloused, millionaire hands and flipped a giant middle finger to the American middle class who could have returned their party to power in Congress in 2022. In unanimously — and futilely — opposing the Democrats' 50-49 passage of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that will likely be signed by President Joe Biden later this week, Cruz and his fellow GOPers went on the record opposing $1,400 checks for struggling taxi drivers, expanded jobless benefits for waiters and waitresses whose jobs were obliterated by the pandemic, and local aid to stop the feared layoffs of cops and firefighters.

https://www.rawstory.com/will-bunch...urs-43-minutes/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[bunny4med]

and now Blount becomes the fifth not to seek re-election to the senate in 2022.
The old timers will be supplanted by Qanon Trumpers slowly but surely. The Bush Republican vanguards are slowly disappearing.

 

[CornusKousa]

t was less than two weeks ago that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz promised the Conservative Political Action Conference that the GOP will be "the party of steel workers and construction workers and pipeline workers and taxi cabdrivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and the men and women with calluses on their hands who are working for this country."

Yet on Saturday afternoon, Cruz and 48 of his Republican colleagues raised their uncalloused, millionaire hands and flipped a giant middle finger to the American middle class who could have returned their party to power in Congress in 2022. In unanimously — and futilely — opposing the Democrats' 50-49 passage of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that will likely be signed by President Joe Biden later this week, Cruz and his fellow GOPers went on the record opposing $1,400 checks for struggling taxi drivers, expanded jobless benefits for waiters and waitresses whose jobs were obliterated by the pandemic, and local aid to stop the feared layoffs of cops and firefighters.

https://www.rawstory.com/will-bunch...urs-43-minutes/?utm_source=push_notifications

1400 dolladr checks.....that should be 11k but pork took the majority of that "stimulus'.

LoL promising 2k just to end up sending 1400 and charging you 11k for it.....SO MUCH PROGRESS

 

[CornusKousa]

and now Blount becomes the fifth not to seek re-election to the senate in 2022.
The old timers will be supplanted by Qanon Trumpers slowly but surely. The Bush Republican vanguards are slowly disappearing.

Excellent, Bush era RINO fuckers are done and need to gtfo.

No more democrat ass licker R's.

 

[Emerson40]

t was less than two weeks ago that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz promised the Conservative Political Action Conference that the GOP will be "the party of steel workers and construction workers and pipeline workers and taxi cabdrivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and the men and women with calluses on their hands who are working for this country."

Yet on Saturday afternoon, Cruz and 48 of his Republican colleagues raised their uncalloused, millionaire hands and flipped a giant middle finger to the American middle class who could have returned their party to power in Congress in 2022. In unanimously — and futilely — opposing the Democrats' 50-49 passage of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that will likely be signed by President Joe Biden later this week, Cruz and his fellow GOPers went on the record opposing $1,400 checks for struggling taxi drivers, expanded jobless benefits for waiters and waitresses whose jobs were obliterated by the pandemic, and local aid to stop the feared layoffs of cops and firefighters.

https://www.rawstory.com/will-bunch...urs-43-minutes/?utm_source=push_notifications

Republicans knew it was a done deal, and voting yes would only raise the ire of their BIG $$ donors, their party-over-people base, and have the party’s stink eye turned toward them, and they’ll become the latest GOP pariah (look at Liz Cheney).

This way, the bill passes (as they knew it would), and they get to go back to their constituents and say “Awe shucks, y’all. I tried.” Politics 101.

Lots of time between now and 2022, and they’re banking on folks having short, selective memory.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

1400 dolladr checks.....that should be 11k but pork took the majority of that "stimulus'.

LoL promising 2k just to end up sending 1400 and charging you 11k for it.....SO MUCH PROGRESS

Still on the BART or is this just Poor lil Dumb-Dumb going SpazBot2k?

 

[CornusKousa]

Still on the BART or is this just Poor lil Dumb-Dumb going SpazBot2k?

Neither.

I got out of that shit hole as fast as possible, I'm in NorCal, actual NorCal not the fuckin' toilet bowl in central California that likes to pretend.

And just because it's something other than praise for your PRECIOUS (D)'eez doesn't mean it's not true.

Grow up Luk.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

I'm sure you got out quick, not being able to afford lunch is a bitch.

 

[CornusKousa]

I'm sure you got out quick, not being able to afford lunch is a bitch.

The wealth envy is real

It's not a matter off affordability Luk.

Just because something is expensive doesn't mean it's worth the dollar.

Like paying good money for a fine meal in SF....accompanied by the smell of bum excrement, body odor and piles of trash everywhere.

I'm not paying for the city because the city around it is a vile cesspit.....not because the 80 bucks would break me.

Mountains, clean air and few to no bums> Bay area.

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

The GOP, to my mind, stopped being a functional national party in the second term of the George W Bush presidency. That was the last time that they had a coherent governing philosophy, with anything even remotely approaching a valid idea for conservative governance. And now it’s coming back to bite them on the ass.

Because starting with the Moscow Mitch McConnell edict of 2009, the GOP went from a functional party with at least passable governing philosophies, to a party based solely on obstruction, once they lose an election, especially as badly as they lost the 2020 election, they are not in a good place. Because when you lack any governing principle, ideas, or platform, when you start to lose, there isn’t any way to use ideas and ideology to turn people over to your side. The only thing you can do is to stop brown and black people from voting.


And following the debacle of 2020, that was the legislative strategy for Republicans in GOP dominated states.

As we speak, there are more than 250 separate voting rights bills in 40 GOP dominated or controlled states that are on the books to make life easier for the GOP in 2022. But there’s a problem. It isn’t going well for the GOP.

https://politizoom.com/the-winds-are-blowing-ill-for-the-gop-going-into-2022/

 

[Articulate_and_Analytical]

The GOP is in deep trouble. They are a stagnant party, already a minority party in the country, and their only way out is to restrict voting to make their minority a majority.

But the Democrats have adapted and improved, and are now ready to fight the GOP in the arena they least want to fight in, corporate donations. The passage of HR1, the We The People Act would bury many of these GOP state laws.

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

The threat of authoritarianism is no longer on the horizon. It has arrived, forecasting a bleak future haunted by the poisonous ghosts of a poisonous past.

The Republican Party no longer hides its racism and boldly engages in widespread voter suppression. As of February 27, 253 restrictive voting bills in 43 states have been either introduced or pre-filed, mostly by Republicans.

As Robin D.G. Kelley has brilliantly argued, Republicans have made clear that they endorse the white supremacist notion that “the United States [should] be a straight, white nation reminiscent of the mythic ‘old days’ when armed white men ruled, owned their castle, boasted of unvanquished military power, and everyone else knew their place.” It is crucial to mention that these bills are also aimed at preventing youth from voting as well. Republicans have also argued openly that voter suppression policies are meant to enable permanent minority rule for them, the end point of which is a form of authoritarianism.

The threat of violence once associated with fringe extremist groups has found a home in a Republican Party that now endorses the political, ideological and social conditions that have given rise to a number of violent white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Racialized violence now runs through American society like an overcharged electric current.

https://truthout.org/articles/threa...longer-on-the-horizon-its-arrived-in-the-gop/

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

The threat of authoritarianism is no longer on the horizon. It has arrived, forecasting a bleak future haunted by the poisonous ghosts of a poisonous past.

The Republican Party no longer hides its racism and boldly engages in widespread voter suppression.

https://truthout.org/articles/threa...longer-on-the-horizon-its-arrived-in-the-gop/

The Republicans are a morally bankrupt political party that supported a deranged president who brought this fragile, evolving democracy to the brink of extinction simply because they can’t stand the glacially slow and righteous empowerment of people of color and any limits on their power to amass an immoral amount of wealth. To paraphrase noted Black educator Vincent Harding, we are citizens of a country that has yet to be realized.

The Republican brand as a legitimate political party will be forever associated with far-right ideologies, including neo-Nazis and neo-Confederates. These so-called “respectable” leaders coddled and stoked a white supremacist insurrection by Trump for the past four years. Their transactional opportunism enabled Confederate flags to be defiantly paraded in the U.S. Capitol, a shame not even achieved during the Civil War. They proved they don’t want to share a pluralistic democracy with other political parties and interests.

If Republicans can’t permanently dominate this country with a demographically shrinking number of angry white people, they proved they are ready to blow it up, figuratively and literally. Now they want us to rush to forgiveness and reconciliation, and ignore that truth and accountability come first in the achievement of healing.

Hitler led an insurrection against the German government in 1923 and was sentenced to five years in jail, served one, and used that leniency to commit the Holocaust. Never forget that premature forgiveness before accountability is dangerous. Fascists are violent because of who THEY are, not what WE DO–like the ordinary Germans who underestimated the Nazis and thought they were just another political party on the right. Germans who weren’t Nazis passively went about their normal affairs by denying the realities of their Jewish neighbors, all for the sake of “unity.”

Republicans are no longer entitled to exist as a legitimate political party because this authoritarian backlash has been building since new Civil Rights laws were passed in 1964 and 1965 in response to white racist violence captured on TV that required the National Guard to quell. Then-President Lyndon Johnson predicted that most white people would flee the Democratic Party to join the pro-segregationist, anti-feminist, and anti-gay revanchist political movement of George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. Every undemocratically selected Republican president since the 1960s (by an electoral college designed to be disenfranchising) has failed to repudiate this neo-fascist wing of their party.

I’m through giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt after 50 years.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/0...HdeZCHXxkrUdMHZrlEBnsWL1ZLaL8fwO7gVtjL28x8Oc8

 

[CornusKousa]

The threat of authoritarianism is no longer on the horizon. It has arrived

Yes it has.

https://s.abcnews.com/images/General/president-joe-biden-press-conference-03-ap-llr-210325_1616693854034_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg

 

[RobDownSouth]

Oh look, there's JarJar with his patented IKYABWAI response.

When was the last time most people used that as a "rebuttal"?

Elementary school, my dear Watson

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Oh look, there's JarJar with his patented IKYABWAI response.

When was the last time most people used that as a "rebuttal"?

It's the defense of a mentally challenged toddler.

 

[CornusKousa]

Oh look, there's JarJar with his patented IKYABWAI response.

When was the last time most people used that as a "rebuttal"?

It's the defense of a mentally challenged toddler.

Also something neither of you turds can refute.

Or as Rob put it "refudiate" LMFAO!!!

Poor Pub-Lick school drop outs.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

No one is gonna bother refuting a IKYABWAI "defense."

 

[CornusKousa]

No one is gonna bother refuting a IKYABWAI "defense."

LOL... you can't.

Because I'm right, Joe, Harris and most of the congressional (D)'s are authoritarian leftist.....your favorite.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

45 wanted to take your penis extenders without due process yet Biden is authoritarian?

Learn your words and know your role, Poor lil Dumb-Dumb.

 

[RobDownSouth]

45 wanted to take your penis extenders without due process yet Biden is authoritarian?

Learn your words and know your role, Poor lil Dumb-Dumb.

Speaking of "words" has JarJar trotted out his favorite catch-phrases today? One point each for "anti-American" ,"commie", "woke" and "cancel".

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Speaking of "words" has JarJar trotted out his favorite catch-phrases today? One point each for "anti-American" ,"commie", "woke" and "cancel".

I'm sure he has. I have noticed that he has backed down from the "Neo-Maoist" nonsense after being constantly belittled for using an irrelevant made up word.