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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   Brace yourself, America. Next year’s midterms have the potential to stock the   
   Republican Party at all levels with rabble-rousers that make the Gingrich   
   revolutionaries of 1994 and the Tea Partiers of 2010 look like RINO squishes.   
      
   Call it the Kook Caucus.   
      
   Elections tend to reflect the political zeitgeist. Some coalesce around a hot   
   policy topic: health care, immigration, jobs, crime. Others are fueled by   
   bigger, broader themes: reforming democracy, reining in Big Government, healing   
   partisan divisions, reviving the American dream.   
      
   But under Donald Trump, the Republican Party set aside policy and principles to   
   become a cult of personality. The driving concern of today’s candidates, with   
   precious few exceptions, is to stay in the good graces of their exiled but   
   still   
   dangerous and vindictive leader. This requires embracing the fiction that the   
   election was stolen from Mr. Trump and that MAGA loyalists are duty-bound to   
   fight to right this wrong.   
      
   That lie has spread like a rash across the Republican base, with a big boost   
   from the conservative media. Half to two-thirds of the party’s voters believe   
   that Joe Biden’s win was illegitimate. Over half believe that election audits   
   will “probably” or “definitely” reverse the outcome, according to a   
   Morning   
   Consult poll from mid-June. (Spoiler alert: They won’t.) And a poll from   
   early   
   June found that 29 percent of Republicans consider it at least somewhat likely   
   that Mr. Trump will be reinstated as president this year. (Not. Gonna. Happen.)   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/opinion/republican-party-cris   
   s.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage   
      
   The Republiscum/QAnon party is the party of seditious lunatics.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)