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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 09:57 PM Oct 2020

I think it's time to call this brand of Republicans, Retro Federalist Republicans.

As opposed to the Lincoln Project Republicans. Retro-Federalists are people that want to take us back to the 1800s, and will cheat to pull us back there.

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I think it's time to call this brand of Republicans, Retro Federalist Republicans. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 OP
How about racist, sexist, xenophobic crooked bastards? dchill Oct 2020 #1
Nope....Organized Crime Party. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2020 #2
How about fascist? The Genealogist Oct 2020 #3
That word has been used so much, that it falls on deaf ears. Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 #4
Revanchists for lost territory that existed only in their minds pecosbob Oct 2020 #5
The word for that is actually "reactionary". marybourg Oct 2020 #6
Agree. They are winning the framing game. Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 #7

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
4. That word has been used so much, that it falls on deaf ears.
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 10:03 PM
Oct 2020

We need to teach people about the Federalist Society's agenda. If they knew where they're taking the Republican party, not everyone will follow.

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
5. Revanchists for lost territory that existed only in their minds
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 10:11 PM
Oct 2020

Crusaders for the jingoistic and half-baked libertarian ideology their parents instilled in them. They don't understand that the world of Beaver Cleaver and Andy Taylor only existed on the idiot-box. They're the kids that want all the apples, because they're special...and screw everybody else. So I simply call them the Selfish Bastard Party.

marybourg

(12,633 posts)
6. The word for that is actually "reactionary".
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 11:03 PM
Oct 2020

Instead of being called “conservative “, todays Republicans are more properly called radical reactionaries. But for some reasons, Dems and the media were and are content to allow them to coast by as “conservatives”.

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