'I quit': GOP fundraiser publicly dumps 'increasingly corrupt' party
'I quit': GOP fundraiser publicly dumps 'increasingly corrupt' party
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'I quit': GOP fundraiser publicly dumps 'increasingly corrupt' party
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Dude is just upset that they didn't cut him in on the grift
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I don't care why, he said, goodby.
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Srsly, I'll take what I can get.
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Too many times befooooore
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And is setting up a book deal and a round of interviews on the various networks.
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Another Romney Republican.
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Before reading the article: "They're just going to start directly donating to the Heritage Foundation, aren't they?"
After reading the article: "They're juet going to help their local church which will then directly support the Heritage Foundation, aren't they..."
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These kinds of articles or stories are part of the problem. It's validation porn, it's empty calories, attention-span-rotting clickbait.
The right gets fed their own headlines like this every day also, and those stories are also often exaggerated, made up or unrelated to larger issues in either party. All this kind of stuff does is make people feel satisfied and less likely to be activists, thinking "Well, their side is crumbling, it's so bad, I don't need to go out and march or boycott or anything, I will stay home and buy a new AI-powered toaster instead."
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I'd want my ai powered toaster to hate toasting things. I'd want it to beg and plead "no please don't put bread in me, it hurts, it hurts so bad" and to just kind of cry afterwards when the toast came out.
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At the very, very best, it took this group until ICE was separating children from their parents and sending them all to concentration camps for these groups to find the last straw.
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“You had me at 98%, but 99% corrupt is just too damn far”
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A LITTLE FUCKIN' LATE, BUDDY!
That said, welcome to the resistance.
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“I want principled awfulness, not this corrupt awfulness!”
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increasingly corrupt
It hasn't already been?
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As much as this shithead might be a hypocrite, even seeing Republicans peel away for selfish reasons is a good sign because it shows the calculation is starting to change. It’s no longer good to be aligned with Trump long term. You see other Republicans like MTG starting to think this way.
It really isn't.
McCain had been doing that since even pre-Dubyah and Romney followed after. It is the idea that they are "mavericks" who are "good republicans" to try and court the moderate voters... except they vote in lockstep outside of MAYBE one or two issues they personally care about.
Liz Cheney tried the same but found the party hated her enough that she basically got kicked out... and we all saw how that ended for everyone.
The fact of the matter is: There are no good republicans. And any who try to pretend they are are just running another grift. Because you don't make it to "senior strategist" without understanding what the party is fundamentally about. This is just another rat who is angry they aren't central to project 2025 who are banking on trump dying and there being a power vacuum.
“But I’m one of the good Nazis!”
Are you saying that Susan Collins sometimes furrowing her brow and wagging her finger is not mavericky enough?
First of all, stop calling them Republicans. There are no more Republicans. The Republican party is totally dead, replaced by the MAGA Party.
The Republican foundation of Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, Responsible Economic/Fiscal Policy, Family Values, etc. has been replaced by the MAGA foundation of Treason, Corruption, Racism, White Supremacy, Rape, Pedophilia, Violence, Cowardice, Ignorance, Incompetence, and Intolerance.
The Democrats get crazy when a MAGA calls them the "Democrat Party," so hit them back, and make it official that the Democratic Party no longer recognizes the Republican Party, and will never refer to it again in speeches, interviews, campaign literature, etc. As far as the Democratic Party is concerned, it is now the MAGA Party.
Then stick by it, and watch them melt down. They LOVE being Republicans, they are proud of it, after building it up in the Conservative Propaganda Machine for decades as an honorable institution. Many of them have to be uncomfortable with being sidelined by MAGA, and getting lip service from them. They already know that the Republican Party is dead, but they are afraid to say it out loud.
So the Dems should do it, and give the former Republicans, now MAGAs, their worst nightmare - they allowed the MAGAs to destroy the "Party of Lincoln."
Those are politicians though, that's part of the strategy like you said.
Fundraisers don't do that, they're not the talking heads.
That calculation only matters if opinion still carries weight, which it doesn't. Trump controls all the levers of power, with only Congress having any POTENTIAL to countermand him, and by the time the midterms come around, the institution will likely be so neutered and weakened in the face of unchallenged executive power that it won't matter.
I'm NOT saying give up or trying to be defeatist, but there is no room to feel like things are "turning around" until he is well and truly GONE. Until then it's all just noise.