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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 07:45 PM Sep 2022

I left the GOP because it seemed to be losing it way. Last week convinced me I was right.

Opinion by Kurt Bardella

I don’t think I’ve recently experienced a span of days that quite so neatly captures the difference between being a Democrat and being a Republican in today’s America.

Last week began with the GOP’s wannabe standard-bearer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, using human beings as political props for a craven publicity stunt designed to stoke right-wing outrage toward migrants.

Then, the current Republican Party standard-bearer found himself in even more legal hot water after the New York attorney general's lawsuit alleging Trump and his eldest children committed fraud. (This happened on the same day that a court-appointed special master called Trump’s bluff and ordered him to back up the conspiracy theory that the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago.)

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Meanwhile, Democrats convened in New York for a trifecta of high-profile confabs: the United Nations General Assembly, NYC Climate Week and the return of the Clinton Global Initiative. At the U.N. General Assembly, President Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke of Russian leader Vladimir Putin and a defense of Ukraine’s efforts to resist the Russian attack. The president also announced $2.9 billion in additional funding to address global food insecurity.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-left-the-gop-because-it-seemed-to-be-losing-it-way-last-week-convinced-me-i-was-right/ar-AA12jHlC

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I left the GOP because it seemed to be losing it way. Last week convinced me I was right. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
I hope cilla4progress Sep 2022 #1
just a tip for this person Skittles Sep 2022 #2
I know, I am SMH. But better late than never I guess. Irish_Dem Sep 2022 #3
They didn't lose their way--they lost their minds. nt hvn_nbr_2 Sep 2022 #4
It lost its way in the 1870s. DavidDvorkin Sep 2022 #5
Yep IbogaProject Sep 2022 #7
All these Never Trumpers will be right back in the GOP fold, supporting the usual regressive sop Sep 2022 #6
GOP is far more concerned with MissMillie Sep 2022 #8
White and right bonds them? czarjak Sep 2022 #9

Irish_Dem

(47,119 posts)
3. I know, I am SMH. But better late than never I guess.
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 08:34 PM
Sep 2022

These people are the reason we are facing the end of democracy.

sop

(10,191 posts)
6. All these Never Trumpers will be right back in the GOP fold, supporting the usual regressive
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 01:58 PM
Sep 2022

policy ideas and scapegoating the same immigrants and minorities as soon as Trump is safely out of the picture. It's not like they're going to become Democrats.

MissMillie

(38,560 posts)
8. GOP is far more concerned with
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 07:07 PM
Sep 2022

who you're sleeping with

what you're reading

conspiracy theories

keeping white, "straight," "Christian" men at the top of the power structure.


And they have no problem eroding anyone else's rights to do it.

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