Former House Republican Conference chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) tore into her party’s leaders on Monday morning for fueling white nationalist “great replacement” fearmongering.
Time to revive the “Pander Bear” for appearances at Stefanik events…
A cogent question for the deniers:
When they marched in Charlottesville, yelling “Jews will not replace us,” do you really think those are “fine people,” as Trump called them?
And what do you have to say to those people today?
The political campaign ads just keep writing themselves for the Democratic Party. So when do we actually see them?
Time to publicly expose the Republican Party for what is has turned into over the past 30 years. Used to be that they kept these feelings quiet and to themselves. Now, they have no fear.
Actually, they probably do have fear and that is why they are so open. They realize demographics are against them and they are just trying to take as many people with them as they can. How pathetic if this is true. The Republican leadership thought they could control this monstrous base to their benefit, but they lost control decades ago. And now we all pay the price. That is why I no longer feel there are “moderate” Republicans. Their silence is deafening. They simply no longer deserve respect, let alone any leadership position.
Never forget. Never forgive. Let’s get moving.
Kinzinger also said that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) ought to be “asked about this.”
With no very lively expectation of success.
The Wyoming Republican called on the leaders to “renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”
Uh, Liz? There’s this term – “base” – you may want to look up.
I suspect that she hears from them regularly.
Liz may very well be rendered moot after this year.
I appreciate very much what she’s done, but she is no longer a part of the GOP - the GQP factor has taken over her party and she will be relegated in November to the dustbin of history.
More’s the pity. She’s the only thing left holding the GOP back from becoming a total trainwreck (her and Kinzinger, who will also likely be tossed out in November).
As has been said many times and is worth repeating here and likely many more time is that the overwhelming support by White Evangelicals for Donald "grab her by the …"Trump proves that “values” in front of the word voter is and has always been code for race.
I agree, but I also fear that we’ll never see the sorts of ads that keep trying to write themselves endlessly for the Democrats. Indignant, well-intentioned protestations regarding the bad ideas and behavior of Republicans just isn’t enough. Democrats seem to be deficient in their understanding of drama and manipulation.
I have to give the devil her due, she is correct once again!
The far right has become the mainstream GOP. We’re going to see white sheets and pointy hats at the 2024 presidential convention.
Nothing I’ve seen about her suggests that she’s going to go meekly to any dustbin. But after November, it might not be as part of the “Grand Old Party”, or the Trumpist shell that has arrogated the name to itself, any more.
Obviously some pros need to apply the rules of messaging…but I believe that, as the Elections get closer, the GOP will keep digging**…
The term China Syndrome comes to mind
**GOP messaging is geared to emotion, and emotion-laced-with-lies is far more extreme than a sedate campaign speech on helping people through better policies.
Probably not, but she isn’t going to have a big platform to defend the party from itself when she represents no one but herself. And that’s the danger here.
She can be as loud as she wants, but she’ll be yelling in an empty forest. Very little coverage, if any, because her platform violates the narrative. She’s already treated as a traitor to her party.
The suspected shooter allegedly killed 10 people and injured three others in the attack, and all but two of the victims were Black, according to law enforcement.
It is suspected that a shooter may have allegedly killed 10 people and injured three others in a supposed attack. But who can really tell?
If the facts were flipped and numerous random white people in a supermarket were shot and killed, the shooter would be dead (and not taken to the hospital) and every leader of the shooter’s race or ethnicity would be called on to denounce the shooter and the shooter’s ideology (or delusions).
Tucker, is that you? I am just asking a question.
What Trump has introduced into American society is truly sick and destructive: a very effective form of verbal warfare. It seems to be imported from the former Soviet Union.
It a rhetorical technique that contains elements of ad populum and ad baculum: relying on a cheering section, like a rally, Fox News, or an army of TV defenders, to give the impression of the legitimacy and public approval of the lie one is telling (ad populum, or for the people), pretending to be on the side of The People (the MAGA base) by “telling it like it is” and “owning the Libs” (ad populum again), and menacing the opposition by accusing them of horrible acts (pedo grifters) that anger people and demand punishment as in “Lock her up” (ad baculum, or an appeal to force).
It is an attempt to divide people into us versus them. Us, the MAGA base, has been whittled down to white Christian people imagining they have been victimized, and them consists of everyone else.
It is very effective, because it makes Us feel important and reinforces their identity as the grievously wronged. As the wronged party, they can do no wrong in their acts of defiance and vengeance.
I’m somewhat baffled that Cheney and Kinzinger and the other marginally sane Rethugliklans haven’t become Independents. It’s obvious they are not going to “save” the GOP from its embrace of full-blown fascism. As they say, “that ship has sailed.”