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Understanding those beliefs is key to following the party through the ongoing purge of Liz Cheney. The partys middle faction initially sympathized with Cheneys anger at Trump for his reckless and cringe-inducing effort to goad a mob into storming the Capitol on January 6. Putting Mike Pences life in danger is not a stunt any of them take lightly. But now the balance of their anger has tilted against Cheney. She refuses to let this thing go, and she is putting the partys messaging at risk.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,651 posts)So, the message of the republican party is more important than the truth? This is alarming.
gordianot
(15,242 posts)For that matter modern weapons will most likely end up in your demise. So the age old human problem is how do you promote your self interests when forcing others to your will will not work. The Republican Party seems to have hit upon a formula. First you lie, then you make up your own rules. Along the way you promote anger. For this to work you have to abandon all reason. We are in the depths of the Second American Civil War and it is asymmetrical.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)I hope democrats realize that