We can chalk up the bankrupting of the gop to trump. Makes 7 and counting. Mixed blessing for sure.
While the rethugs gained seats in the house and some states we need to remember these seats were gerrymandered in 2011. 2018 was an anomaly when the antitrump vote flipped the House and some states despite the gerrymandering.
Hopefully the coming redistricting will be fair.
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Cnn .com had Mitchell’s resignation letter from the republican party in full. It is an intetesting read
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Why do they wait? Well it’s their reelection needs that drive their lies. They will always discard decency, personal honor and truth at the door and speak what their voters wanna hear, no matter the untruth. This goes for most all politicians no matter the party. Those who stand up and speak truth have very short careers. That is why they tell the truth at the end of their time in office.
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Term limits?
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The only good Republican is one that has decided not to be a Republican anymore.
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Such bravery and courage at the last possible moments after he’s already announced his exit from politics. And that’s the GOP in a nutshell: NeverTrumpers when it’s convenient
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Speaking of unacceptable. I hope DeSantis get jail time for this!
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Another COMMUNIST outs himself! Thanks, Obama.
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We will be facing a huge challenge in a drop off in enthusiasm now that Trump is out of office, come 2022. Its a midterm, and with Trump gone, volunteers, donations and voters will start once again tuning out elections.
Also, minor quibble. IMO, policy doesn’t matter all that much. “Defund the police” wasn’t a policy, it was a street slogan from protests. Messaging matters, absolutely…but the underlying policy usually leaves most Americans bored. And with that said, I believe we need to be developing what I like to call “universal messages”…messages that appeal to every American, not just subsets of our own party. Not sure what that is today, but several should come into focus over the next 6-9 months.
It’ll happen before 2024. The divides are pretty big, and with so many publicly signing their name on the dotted line, its hard to see the “trump” faction letting that simmer down and be forgotten. Guys like this might go quietly into the night, but people like Liz Cheney will not, and likewise, folks like Matt Gaetz have their entire future riding on leading a trump faction to supremacy in the GOP. And the folks who are eyeing a 2024 Presidential run, want the major engagements fought well before they declare; after all you don’t want to lay out a pro Trump platform only to find the Lincoln Project people hold sway in the party, and vice versa.
The good(?) news is, from my perspective, is that the GOP Civil War will impact their turn out negatively, at the same time Dems are seeing a drop off in our turn out from Trump fatigue. So I am not sure we can predict a major advantage for either party, 2 years out.
Yes, that was my impression too.
But I think it goes a little deeper into how troubled the GOP as a party is today. EVERYTHING is rigid dogma, in that you must adhere to it completely and without pause. Despite the fact that its subject to change on the whims of a madman.
This guy could not disagree with his party over signing on to support an absurd lawsuit aimed at undermining the very foundations of our country and democracy overall, without resigning from the party and announcing his retirement. And that’s a very, very bad place for a party to be.
ETA: And read his letter. This is not a NeverTrumper. He STILL supports Trump, he just think he needs to accept that he lost. But even holding that one opinion publicly, requires his resignation from the party.
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DeSantis is in hot water for a lot of things right now. The raid on Jones’ house; his attendance of a HS football game without mask (and with most of the crowd without masks too, I am ashamed to say, in my county), his moves to attack a lawyer for filing a lawsuit challenging the customary use of beaches in Walton county because, is his words “it distracted him from doing his job”.
true, true enough. Collins beat yet another boring middle-of-the-road, well-heeled Maine machine Democrat, alas.
as I said, “a pipedream.”
(readers may also enjoy, The Life and Times of Eliot Cutler in His Epic Battle to Throw the Governor’s House to Paul LePage, Not Once But Twice, By Undercutting A Pair of Mediocre Democratic Candidates. Soon to be a major motion picture.)
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or rather, as I forgot to say, “a pipedream.”
standing tall for the last 3 weeks of his term