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tblue37

(65,403 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 10:14 PM Feb 2021

Jonathan Last in "The Bulwark" (conservative mag): "The party is rotten, through and through."

What Does a "Good" Republican Look Like?
The party is rotten, through and through.

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The Good Republicans are as openly indifferent to argument and evidence as the Bad Republicans. Like the Bad Republicans, they don’t even feel the need to pretend to be objective. And at the end of the day, they vote the same way as the Bad Republicans, too.

So maybe pinning your hopes for rebuilding a non-authoritarian political party around these guys isn’t going to work out so good. The few remaining non-Trumpy conservatives might want to come up with another plan.
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Jonathan Last in "The Bulwark" (conservative mag): "The party is rotten, through and through." (Original Post) tblue37 Feb 2021 OP
The whole lot of them are putrid toxic blights upon the landscape. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #1
I do not think Timewas Feb 2021 #2
I have dealt with a lot of Magats. I honestly have met only a handful that Blue_true Feb 2021 #3

Irish_Dem

(47,131 posts)
1. The whole lot of them are putrid toxic blights upon the landscape.
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 10:16 PM
Feb 2021

The whole party needs to be dissolved for the good of the country.

Timewas

(2,195 posts)
2. I do not think
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 10:17 PM
Feb 2021

That the word "good" and republicon should even be in the same book say nothing of the same page or sentence

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
3. I have dealt with a lot of Magats. I honestly have met only a handful that
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 10:20 PM
Feb 2021

I would say had harsh racial feelings, but that may be because I am Black.

Many of them seem intent on getting back to the “good ole days”, viewing those days ONLY through the prism of their lives, they make no real attempt to understand why a Black person would see those days in a starkly different light.

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