Since losing their midterm elections, several election deniers have sought leadership positions within their state Republican parties, all part of a national play by Trump supporters and Big Lie enthusiasts to keep election denialism alive and well, while they seek more control over local elections.
Sorry I can’t be any more uplifting, but this crap frightens more than humors. My one hope is they continue to sink the Republican Trumpist Party to the point it can be drowned in a bathtub, to coin the phrase by Saint Ronnie.
The other thing about crazy fraudmongers is that they tend to be uninformed and not very good at following rules. So expect to a a bunch of embezzlement and misappropriation of party funds for personal enrichment, plus various other violations. Any investigations of which will be screamed about as political persecution.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon first promoted the idea on his “War Room” podcast in 2021. “We’re going to take this back village idiot by village idiot,” he said
There. Fixed.
But it’s still terrifying, and this is how you wake up one day to find that you have no recourse to the coup.
The refusal of the Cray-Cray to accept some 70 precinct delegates (many.l of whom are prior leading Republicans) elected by the voters is both despicable and dangerous.
Fortunately, the voters reacted to the choices the Republicans made at their state convention by turning the state over to the Democrats.
Any sane and honest decent Republican who has any shame left the party long ago.
Or as Andrew Sullivan, a person I only mildly dislike, said on the second Tuesday of November 2004, “any conservative with principles voted for John Kerry last week.”
Ronnie was stupid, hateful, and mean and was my governor for a while so I’m speaking from experience, and I’m sorry the Secret Service got in the way of the bullet intended for him in 1981 but he didn’t say that bathtub thing. It was Grover Norquist, another stupid, hateful and mean repub strategist.
Lobbyist Grover Norquist is a well-known proponent of the strategy and has famously said, “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”