Telling lies has become the norm for today's Republicans

[Nevilledog]

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John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
how does a minority party function when it's:

--led by Donald Trump
--dependent on extremists
--incongruously constructed of aggrieved populist voters and affluent profit-minded donors?

Republican politicians do an extraordinary amount of lying

cnn.com
Analysis: Telling lies has become the norm for today's Republicans
To assume lies would sink House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is to misunderstand the nature of today's Republican Party: They actually demonstrate his credentials to lead it.
2:46 PM · May 1, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/politics/republican-party-kevin-mccarthy/index.html

(CNN)To assume lies would sink House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is to misunderstand the nature of today's Republican Party: They actually demonstrate his credentials to lead it.

That's not merely because Donald Trump remains the dominant GOP figure. The former President lies incessantly, and his aberrant behavior compels fellow Republicans to lie about him.

The problem runs deeper than one man. For a minority party joining blue-collar voters driven by cultural resentment with affluent donors fixed on the bottom line, gaining and wielding power requires dissembling beyond the conventional equivocation that politicians in all parties have always used to amass popular support.

One of the GOP's most successful political consultants of recent decades issued that judgment in a confessional 2020 memoir. Stuart Stevens titled his book: "It Was All a Lie."

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[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Chernobyl

[mitch96]

2. To me it's like dealing with a petulant child. If there is no punishment for lying,

they keep doing it.. Politicians need to call the repukes out on their lies until till they stop or tone it down..
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