Turning outrage into power: How far right is changing GOP

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to have settled on a strategy to deal with a handful of Republican lawmakers who have stirred outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments.

If you can't police them, promote them.

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Rather than face punishment for personal attacks that violate longstanding norms of Congress, they've been celebrated by conservatives, who have showered Boebert and Greene with campaign cash.

“We are not the fringe. We are the base of the party,” Greene, who has previously endorsed calls to assassinate prominent Democrats, said last week on a podcast hosted by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

The hands-off approach by Republican leadership gives them license to spread hate speech, conspiracy theories and misinformation that can have real world consequences, while testing the resolve of Democrats, who already removed Gosar and Greene from their committees.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/turning-outrage-power-far-changing-050724414.html

[Kablooie]

1. I hope they go even more extreme and offensive.

So that all Republicans with some morals and values leave the party.

[RevBrotherThomas]

2. You'll get your wish -

Although I wouldn't hold out much hope there are many/any Republicans with morals and values left.

[Initech]

3. Or we turn into France.

Seriously, that Eric Zemmour scares the shit out of me. You want to see someone worse than Trump, you got it.