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   XPost: alt.politics.republicans, alt.politics.trump   
   From: Leper@MalokaiColony.com   
      
   On 2/16/2021 4:14 PM, Ted wrote:   
   > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:24:44 -0800, Rudy Canoza  wrote:   
   >> Trumps rot has reached the GOPs roots   
   >   
   >   
   >> Opinion by Michael Gerson (Republican in fact)   
   >> Feb. 15, 2021 at 11:33 a.m. PST   
   >   
   >   
   >> The acquittal of former president Donald Trump from charges of   
   > inciting   
   >> insurrection brought hints of hope for the Republican future. There   
   > was Sen.   
   >> Bill Cassidy (R-La.) following the facts to a conviction vote.   
   > There was Sen.   
   >> Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) bluntly opposing the presidents actions. The   
   > circle of GOP   
   >> resistance to Trumps influence has expanded beyond the conscience   
   > of Sen. Mitt   
   >> Romney (R-Utah).   
   >   
   >   
   >> But the dominant note of the day was still cowardice. The case   
   > presented by the   
   >> House impeachment managers was so compelling and overwhelming that   
   > the extent of   
   >> Republican cravenness was highlighted in neon. Republicans who knew   
   > better tried   
   >> to hide behind thin technicalities. And most Republican senators   
   > did not seem to   
   >> know better. In the end, we witnessed a historic collapse of moral   
   > and political   
   >> leadership. And it was no less tragic for being expected.   
   >   
   >   
   >> There is a natural process by which political parties renew   
   > themselves. Newt   
   >> Gingrichs combative, uncompromising Republican revolution in the   
   > mid-1990s was   
   >> a foil for the compassionate conservatism that defined the party in   
   > the 2000   
   >> presidential election. The rise of tea-party, anti-government   
   > populism set the   
   >> stage for a contrasting reform conservatism, which sought to   
   > modernize   
   >> government in pursuit of populist goals.   
   >   
   >   
   >> This dialectic, however, only really operates in the realm of   
   > policy. If   
   >> Trumpism were merely a set of proposals, there could be an   
   > antithesis. But the   
   >> movement fully revealed by the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol   
   > is united by   
   >> a belief that the White, Christian America of its imagination is on   
   > the verge of   
   >> destruction, and that it must be preserved by any means necessary.   
   > This is less   
   >> a political philosophy than a warped religious belief. There can be   
   > no   
   >> compromise in a culture war. There can be no splitting of   
   > differences at Armageddon.   
   >   
   >   
   >> What has emerged within the Republican Party is a debate on the   
   > value of   
   >> democracy itself. In the traditional American view, the democratic   
   > process has   
   >> an essential nobility. It does not always produce the results we   
   > seek, yet, in   
   >> the long run, it protects the rights we value. But the Trumpian   
   > view of   
   >> democracy is purely instrumental. With the stakes of politics so   
   > high  with   
   >> socialists, multiculturalists and child rapists (as the QAnon   
   > fabulists would   
   >> have it) intent on destroying American society  outcomes are the   
   > only things   
   >> that really matter. Not truth. Not civility. Not electoral   
   > procedure. Just the   
   >> gaining and maintenance of power.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   > https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-rot-has-reached-the-gops   
   > -roots/2021/02/15/8415fbb8-6fb9-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html   
   >   
   >   
   >> Once again:  the Republiscum party is   
   >> exposed as the party of white supremacy.   
   >   
   >   
   > Fuck a Marxist Democrat and bea Republican Hero's   
      
   Now you are getting it Rudy.   
      
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