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Who destroyed the ReTHUG party - Killa Kon or MoscowMitch? n/t (Original Post) malaise Jan 2021 OP
Rush, Fox, and the rest Jerry2144 Jan 2021 #1
🖕🖕🖕 onecaliberal Jan 2021 #2
+1 Lucinda Jan 2021 #15
I'm not so sure they are dead yet... Wounded Bear Jan 2021 #3
Seriously Republicants have always been unhelpful OhNo-Really Jan 2021 #4
Newt Gingrich & Karl Rove with their divisive scorched-earth take-no-prisoners politics and ETHICS. Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #5
Those two are definitely part of the destruction crew malaise Jan 2021 #7
They made tRump & McCONnell possible. Highly polarized voters overlook obvious flaws, Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #10
gringrch? elleng Jan 2021 #6
Mitch if it's either/or FeelingBlue Jan 2021 #8
Money stillcool Jan 2021 #9
The party was already dead. Trump and McConnell et al., are walking corpses, reanimated by lutherj Jan 2021 #11
Newt lisa58 Jan 2021 #12
I agree with above that Newt had a lot to do with escalating the hyper-partisan M_Demo_M Jan 2021 #13
Moscow Mitch. Hands down. He is at the core of so much that is wrong. Vivienne235729 Jan 2021 #14

Jerry2144

(2,114 posts)
1. Rush, Fox, and the rest
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:35 PM
Jan 2021

All the reicht wing media destroyed their minds and souls. The party will follow

Wounded Bear

(58,721 posts)
3. I'm not so sure they are dead yet...
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:42 PM
Jan 2021

if indeed they are, we could say that Trump issued the coup de grace, but the beginnings of their demise date back to at least Nixon/Reagan. Hell some of their problems date back to the beginning, under Lincoln.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,045 posts)
5. Newt Gingrich & Karl Rove with their divisive scorched-earth take-no-prisoners politics and ETHICS.
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:45 PM
Jan 2021

No amount of damage to the US political process was too great to contemplate for their ambitions.

tRump has just been a useful idiot.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,045 posts)
10. They made tRump & McCONnell possible. Highly polarized voters overlook obvious flaws,
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:51 PM
Jan 2021

like tRump bankruptcies, cheating on wives, palling around with Epstein & Maxwell, his lying, his ....


lutherj

(2,496 posts)
11. The party was already dead. Trump and McConnell et al., are walking corpses, reanimated by
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:59 PM
Jan 2021

a right-wing zombie virus. That’s why they side with the pandemic and call it a hoax. The pandemic is their rancid ideology made flesh.

(By comparison, Pence with his little fly is just a boyish wannabe, hoping Mother will make him one of the walking dead. But the real zombies just smack him around because he’s a lightweight.)

That is all.

M_Demo_M

(158 posts)
13. I agree with above that Newt had a lot to do with escalating the hyper-partisan
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 10:02 PM
Jan 2021

rhetoric that broke Washington. But Reagan is also to blame with his "welfare queen" dog whistle BS. I think you can draw a fairly straight line from Reagan to Gingrich to Trump.

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