Faced with loud criticism from President Donald Trump’s campaign and two Republican U.S. senators who’ve called for his resignation, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state has been forced to defend himself against the broadsides from his own party.
Welcome to the 2020 Republican party, Secretary of State Raffensberger. It is the party of grievances and death threats.
The issue here is that there are two parties and then there is Trump, who resides on a skew plane, outside the boundaries of either party. Those who existed in similar planes flocked to his banner and the GOP allowed themselves to be realigned into Trump’s skew orbit to try to benefit from those otherwise unattached voters. So now, any time reality ends up orthogonal with the skew plane, the Trumpites turn rabid, even against their “own” side.
How do you dare? It’s the party of patriotic Christians!
Please proceed, Republicans.
‘Trumpism’ is by its nature a relentless assault on the very concept of ‘objective reality’. Literally everything is viewed through subjective and political lenses.
Honestly, I think “political” is too sophisticated a concept for it. Political implies some level of civilization, but these people don’t seem inclined toward any such thing. These people are much more primal and proud of it.
For all the GOPers who think there’s no harm in indulging the Coup Reality Show - they’re wrong. There is harm.
I thought I’d enjoy it when the mutual recriminations erupted and they started to eat their own, but this poor guy seems like a decent sort, just trying to do his job, and getting death threats over it. It’s mostly just sad and depressing. Trump normalized this shit. It won’t leave when he does. 
The party will die by its own hand.
I was going to comment but Pffttttu.
I can’t wait for the inevitable “I knew it was wrong the whole time…but tax cuts!”
It does seem there is a cohort that are Trumpites first, second and always and if he did leave the stage and no one was able to take up his mantle, they would fade back into the void because they were only ever animated by his animus. As it stands, I don’t see Trump withstanding what is to come and I don’t see anyone being able to step in, not even a Tom Cotton or the like. They are all pale imitations of Trump’s venality and irreality and none of them will be able to hold a candle to Trump’s flame in the eyes of “his” people.
If you are not totally loyal to Dear Leader you will be purged.
I’m not sure what they could have done differently, but the MSM normalized Mr. Trump’s behavior for far too long. Now we are paying the price.
“In the business world that I live in, if we have an issue with people, we call them directly and we have our conversation,” Raffensperger told Galloway.
I’m supposing that, in the world that he lives in, the goal isn’t to extort any behavior he wants from others by threatening their well-being.
I guess he’s not up to snuff on the post-Drumpf Reactionary Party.
Maybe he has to reconsider his ways, or the party he belongs to.
Raffensperger:
“I follow the law.”
RINO!
That subjective and political lens is the same lens Donald has used throughout his adulthood, me and me. To Donald, now more than ever, there is no world without him. The worst thing Republicans ever did was to bow down before him.
Don’t blame us Mr Raffensberger, we’re too smart to vote for the dipshit crazyass mother fucker party.
