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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 01:47 PM Feb 2018

The GOP Needs to Be Fumigated

February 12, 2018 at 10:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Tom Nichols: “Republicans once believed in limited government, fiscal restraint, support for the defense and national security establishments, family values, and a strong American role in maintaining global order. More than that, we were the party that believed in logic and prudence over emotion. Our hearts were perhaps too cold, but never bleeding.”

“Today’s Republicans, however, are a party of bellowing drama queens whose elected representatives blow up spending caps, bust the deficit, and attack America’s law enforcement and national security agencies as dangerous conspirators. Their leader expects banana republic parades, coddles the Kremlin, protects violent men in positions of responsibility, and overlooks child molestation. The rank-and-file GOP members who once claimed that liberals were creating a tyrannical monarchy in the Oval Office now applaud the expansion of the presidency into a gigantic cult of personality.”

“So, am I still a Republican?”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/02/12/gop-needs-fumigated/

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The GOP Needs to Be Fumigated (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
Darn atreides1 Feb 2018 #1
How anyone can miss this is beyond me pandr32 Feb 2018 #2
It's the money. Orsino Feb 2018 #3

pandr32

(11,617 posts)
2. How anyone can miss this is beyond me
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 01:54 PM
Feb 2018

It is in full array every day. Anyone supporting this madness is complicit.
We need more than a fumigation, which would be the last step after we round them all up and send them to the for-profit prisons they are so fond of.
A new Republican Party needs to form.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
3. It's the money.
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 02:40 PM
Feb 2018

They are only doing as their major donors demand.

We let them be bought, and they are bought.

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