It is starting to make sense why these Republican lawmakers are scared to death. It’s not just their whacko constituents, the local party machinery comes churning after them the minute they step out of a MAGA mindset. This is amazing. But it’s a pattern that can’t be ignored. Here is what Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy brought upon himself yesterday.
“Innocent of the politically motivated, bogus charges now pending against him in a kangaroo court.”
That line wouldn’t be out of place on OANN or Newsmax.
And it’s perfectly in keeping with what we’re seeing from state-level Republican organizations across this great land of ours:
- In Texas, the state GOP adopted a QAnon slogan and the party chairman is actively talking about secession.
- The chair of the Wyoming GOP is talking about seceding from the Union, too. Also: The state party censured Liz Cheney for voting for the article of impeachment.
- The Arizona state GOP voted to censure Republican governor Doug Ducey, Cindy McCain, and former senator Jeff Flake for general enemy-of-the-people stuff.
- The Nebraska state Republicans are pursuing censure against Ben Sasse for the specific charge of having voted that it was constitutional to conduct an impeachment trial.
- The Hawaiian Republican party is openly sympathetic to QAnon.
- The Oregon Republican party published a resolution claiming that the January 6 Capitol attack was a “false flag” operation designed to hurt Donald Trump.
Where are these loonies coming from, does anybody know? I grew up in Colorado, which was at that time was reliably a red state. I was surrounded by Republicans. I have trouble imagining any of them wanting to secede from the union or believing that this riot at the Capitol, which claimed five lives, was anything other than the abomination that it was.
What has happened to the Republican party? And what does it say about America when one of the two major political parties has gone totally off the rails — and the first people to say so are former Republicans?
Today Josh “The Empty Suit” Mandel, who ran against Sherrod Brown in 2012, jumped into the race for Rob Portman’s seat in 2022 saying he will go to D.C. to fight to “Trump’s agenda.” Remember when candidates said they would go to D.C. to fight for “Ohio’s working families”?
Is there something being put in the water? Is there subliminal mind control programming going on? Have aliens taken over their brains? What the hell is wrong with these people? It makes no sense at all to me. If these repuqs were smart, they’d all get together as a group and convict the @hole, thus getting him out of the party and out of the way of future elections. It would give them more cover from the abuse by the knuckle dragging wingnutia if they’d join forces, but no. They must like the fear and terror, the slavish surrender of any scintilla of morals, judgement, love of country and their fellow citizens. What is driving these people over the cliffs like the lemmings they appear to be?
Blackmail? By Trump? Or Putin?
So, the “Republican Party of Louisiana” is willing to invoke the Wrath of Trump by calling him the “former President” and “private citizen” while criticizing Bill Cassidy’s vote?
Interesting.
A line from the inimitable Sir Ian McKellen in the first X-Men movie comes to mind over all these censures: “We are the future, Charles, not them! They no longer matter!” What’s worse is the GQP knows how little they now matter deep down. They took their single best shot on January 6th and they failed. Now everybody’s on the lookout for them. And nothing they’re doing, these censures includef, is building on anything but impotent resentment.
I just hope we remember to give Democrats the benefit of the doubt when they “stray” from the party line.
When information overload became misinformation to the masses to the unhappy uneducated followers what then?Where are the Philosophers?When did speaking truth become lies?Human beings were never meant to confuse and distort the Beauty and Happiness.
This is just horrifically sad. I can’t believe how unpatriotic & downright fascist the Republican party has become. It’s always sort of flirted with fascist ideology in my opinion, but this seems like a complete embrace. I almost want these monsters to secede, but I am not informed enough to understand the political ramifications of such a move. I just want them to go away. To stop this nonsense. To let us all settle down for a while, but clearly they will not.