GOP Flirts With Notion That Fighting Extremism Is A Threat To Political Survival | Talking Points Memo

Don’t forget the Air Force, it’s like 2 mints in one!

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I would have said Northern Alaska, but that’s just me.

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Normal people don’t attack the Capitol. Normal Republicans do.

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Shades of insisting that we say radical Islamic terrorist. The Bizarro World is a real phenomena.

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So if the Repubs win the next election for President, all those who disagree may attack the Capital?

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This ain’t “flirting.” It’s a constant frantic drumbeat all over right wing media right now, has been since Biden won and it is part of the feedback loop of radicalization that they are caught in. Accountability and consequences and prevention measures and otherwise dealing with the extremism they have intentionally created and are not entirely reliant upon…all of it is being deliberately mischaracterized, demagogued and internalized as Orwellian Nazification of the country and an expanding existential threat against “real America” and the white Christian conservatives who are the only people to possess the right to such a moniker…just like the demographic shifts are that lie at the blackened heart of their entire downward spiral. At this point there is pretty much NOTHING that they can allow to escape the prism of existential threat. And that means further radicalization, broader and deeper extremism and escalating violence.

They literally have nothing else left. I said “nothing’s off limits” before. Think of the universe of what that might entail as a snowball rolling down the mountain, ever expanding, ever gaining mass and momentum and the GOP powerless to stop it, because they’ve trapped themselves at its center. This all gets worse, much MUCH worse, before it gets better…if it even does get better.

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This from the political party that used 9/11 like a fire-axe against anyone with political leanings to the left of Dick Cheney and anyone with skin color darker than off-white.

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Someone way smarter than me needs to figure out how to take what Republicans are saying about the MTG problem and hang it around the Republican politician’s donors necks.

And pleas no one get me started on how MTG offended my sincerely humanist beliefs in her little “poor, poor, misunderstood me” speech.

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Tucker Carlson: "DHS has no actual evidence that Trump voters are planning to hurt anyone.”

Right wing extremists responsible for:

  • 5 dead during Capitol insurrection
  • 6 indictments in plan to kidnap and execute Michigan Governor
  • 1 dead in Charlottesville
  • Kenosha protest shooting 2 murdered
  • 2020 boogaloo killings
    (murder of a Federal Protective Service officer in Oakland and anti-police ambush in Santa Cruz)
  • El Paso Walmart shooting
  • etc. etc. etc.
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I love it when you get upset.

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The Repubs are confused about picking their poison. Shameful.

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Of course! It’s now de rigueur! It’s like the running of the bulls, but for Congress.

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They are an ever shrinking cadre of losers and malcontents. The entire RW movement is in an existential spiral of fear, clawing for anything that will lift them above the sucking hole they are falling into. It is fun to watch. :grin:

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This is turning out really weird. Normally, people just admit they screwed up and move on. It’s like they’ve all turned into Trump. Admitting mistakes is existential now.

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The reliance on white nationalist extremism has now reached the point of stunts like this:

Done SOLELY and prefaced so OBVIOUSLY to give him the opportunity to yell and scream on Faux News about the Dems not wanting “unity” and “hating America.”

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Sen Johnson, have you tried not being a Nazi asshole?

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EX-cisely.

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They’re really flailing without Herr Drumpf. I mean, this is Bush League. If probably the best he can do.

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Hmm. You may be onto something!

LOL. @sniffit has a wonderful way with words. It is always enjoyable to read his posts, they are usually enlightening.

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