my trumper relatives too… this week there is a hint of a dent in their obstinance…
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Voter disenfranchisement is at the core of the modern GOP’s being, dating back to its roots as the Democratic Party in the Jim Crow South. I’ve had Republican acquaintances tell me that we should go back to only owners of real property getting to vote.
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Public safety time.
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That settles it. GA will probably reelect him.
Financial crookedness is no vice: most of those crackers will see Perdue as “a smart businessman.”
That seems like an important part of it. The '80s “welfare queen” BS held such sway with my most embarrassing relative I heard her say a few years ago, “How come all those ****s are driving Cadillacs?” She thought she had scored a major point with that one. 
I guess it’s widespread, much as the rest of us wish it wasn’t.
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Impoverished whites, please.
It’s not hard to do, and the GOP’s done it for a loooong time.
-family values
-religious freedom
-guns
-racism
-right-to-life
-sanctity of marriage
-guns
-racism
-anti-socialism
-small government
-guns
-racism
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Just part of the Perdue and Loeffler plan to defund the SEC.
Just following in the footsteps of slave owners.
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Yes, agreed. AKA, “the rural vote.”
The thing is, everything you mentioned sets aside the issue of wealth. They’ve managed to get this to happen in spite of the clear fact that it’s peasants agreeing with the aristocracy. That’s the bit that amazes me. Economically speaking, you have millions of people with relatively little grafting themselves onto a savior who’s really a gilded conman. And they just don’t care.
I don’t get the part where all of them are convinced they shouldn’t tax the rich heavily because one day they’ll need the extra cash to tip their yacht’s skipper. Maybe it’s step one of cult membership, long since forgotten.
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Even if the trades turn out to be technically legal, its pure pandemic profiteering. We are back at a 1930s-style robber baron economy.
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What’s a little insider trading, especially if you are a US senator? Not that bad when you consider Perdue and a whole bunch of GOP senators were ready to move forward on the Judy Shelton nomination.
The procedural vote ultimately failed 47 to 50, with Mr. McConnell changing his vote from agreeing to advance the nomination to opposing it so he could revive it before the end of the lame-duck session.
It could still happen. Barry Eichengreen three decades ago addressed the gold standard and metallism in his book Golden Fetters. Generally the topic had been put to bed, but not really for the right-right, where nothing has really changed. Like clockwork, the noise machine went into gear last summer. Even if David Perdue loses, his next vote on Shelton and hamstringing monetary policy during the Biden administration may create a legacy the gives Yellen and Powell ulcers in the months ahead.
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Or maybe restrict their stock ownership to a few broad-market index ETF’s1. Far fewer opportunities for shenanigans.
1 Good advice for most people.
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I don’t have a full answer for that, either.
My partial answer is yes, cult membership runs deep. Also, those with the power have used the racism and guns cards skillfully. Hence, my mentioning them more than once. The poor right-wingers are far more likely to blame Blacks for their plight instead of, to use your term, gilded conmen.
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Exactly my approach.
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A few of an Uncle’s neighbor’s decorative cows on the Uncle’s property gets him an ag tax rate. He’s all GOP, all the way…
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That should take care of that seat. Not saying it will. But it should.
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The issue was enough of a liability that Perdue abruptly sold off between $3.2 million and $9.4 million of his stock portfolio over a four-day period in mid-April
In retrospect, that was a lousy time to sell stocks. It was a couple of weeks off the low, but the S&P 500 is up about 35% from mid-April. Not a bad RoI for just 7 months.
If higher government officials really want to play the market, they ought to use index funds/ETFs. If they know what they’re doing, options on ETFs can do even better. But at least there’s much less opportunity to be guilty of insider trading.
'There is no evidence that Perdue, who is among the wealthier members of the Senate, acted on information gained as a member of Congress or through his long-standing relationship with company officials. "
After reading the preceding 3 paragraphs I was astonished - then I checked back at the top - yep (AP)
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Remember, you can’t spell “Anodyne Pablum” without an A and a P.
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