This ad by the Republican Accountability Project is hopefully the first of many to come. Donald Trump loved him some Vladimir Putin until the day he didn’t. Then he chastised Putin for the “holocaust” in Ukraine.
The internet has a memory and that has always worked to Trump’s disadvantage.
Watch, :47.
Curious that Trump would have used a reference to the holocaust, because Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine is the “Nazi-fication” of the country.
Trump is an abject moron on his best day, but when you listen to clips of his pro-Putin comments in the context of the war with Ukraine, it becomes surreal. The man is simply not there at all. He doesn’t have one toe on the ground, let alone both feet. Yet, we are told that this is the Republican front runner.
I hope the GOP can wake up. In the Trump era we abandoned the normal political paradigm of Democrat v. Republican. Now the model we’re looking at is Democrat v. Fascist. That is the legacy of Trump.
As utterly horrible as Ukraine is and will continue to be, Putin may have just done us a favor. By hitting his most hated foe on the same week (!) as CPAC, he might have just yanked the rug out from underneath all his GQP pawns’ messaging. And let us remember that the latter was already encountering serious headwinds.
Dem vs. Fascist–probably and I’m not sure if the ‘pubes will turn back. Why would they? They’re getting terrific buy-in from their base and I’m pretty sure their dark money sugar daddies are in favor of fascism way more than democracy: democracy has people who do things like boycott companies with views that run counter to….well, democracy.
I was appalled when I heard about this. Still, i think the Biden administration can put out this fire by explaining just who Lindsay Graham is, that he is no friend or representative of the present administration, that he speaks for himself but certainly not for Biden or American foreign policy in any way shape or form, and that he is a Trump toady and has been since the day Trump was elected.
I’m hoping that the 1/6 committee gets into that phone call Lindsey made to Georgia SoS Raffensperger. It was outside Lindsey’s official job description, and certainly outside his state.
You and I might think it was outside Lindsey’s “official job description, and certainly outside his state” so there should be ramifications, but, I’d argue that politicians giving endorsements of politicians in other states and politicians seeking and/or accepting donations from people outside their states and/or districts should be illegal as well.
I live in Alabama. I don’t think it’s right or fair for some group or individual person living in New York or Idaho or even a neighboring state like Florida or Mississippi should be able to send money to a candidate running for office in or from Alabama. (I don’t have a problem with a party’s national organization taking donations and disbursing them to Alabama political candidates, just to be honest here.) But I get tired of seeing ads that have been put together by supposedly local groups that are being funded by mostly out-of-state dark money putting up ads for or against Alabama candidates, no matter the office. I work for the Postal Service and I see a lot of *local* residents (presumably) sending donations to out-of-state politicians (for example, I’ve seen plenty of envelopes going to South Dakota to Noem’s campaign and I don’t think they’re just simple notes of encouragement) and I find that to be as unacceptable as seeing out-of-state money coming in to support Kay Ivey or Mo Brooks. (I’m not advocating that people shouldn’t protest the actions of a politician outside their own state I’m just opposed to money flowing to the campaigns of politicians outside your own state.)
Note, this obviously doesn’t apply to presidential campaigns. Everyone in the US is affected by the actions of the President but other politicians? No.
So, unfortunately, as long as we allow politicians to receive funds from “outsiders,” we can’t exactly demand that politicians keep out of the business of states that they don’t live in or represent. Bear in mind, Lindsey always has the fall-back position as “A concerned citizen” to cover anything he might’ve said in that call–provided he didn’t say anything that could be considered extortion (which, as a US Senator from South Carolina, wouldn’t really be that much; even Senate resolutions and bills have to be voted on by committees and then the full Senate) or any other kind of punitive action.
Well if they do send in trump after all this Joe Biden will beat him like a drum, again. Personally I don’t think he’s going to get past his court cases but that’s me. I think the Republican Party is going to fall into turmoil over the whole freaking thing. Trump people are gone. I have seen that. But the non trumpets aren’t going anywhere in a hurry either. They think they can slide by trumpets. The one thing they all forget is that there’s more democrats that republicans and if trumpets split then odds go to the basement.