This is How Trump Destroys the Republican Party

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This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs

Opinion by Dana Milbank

Jan. 8, 2021 at 10:05 p.m. UTC

If any good could possibly come of the Trump-incited mob’s murderous attack on the United States Capitol, and the people’s representatives therein, it would be the demise of this Republican Party.

Even as Trump-inspired barbarians overran Capitol Police Wednesday, fatally injuring one, to defile and plunder the Capitol, official word came that Democrats had won the second Georgia Senate seat, exiling Republicans to the political wilderness for the first time in a decade, without control of the White House, House or Senate.

And, at the same time, the whole world saw the defeated leader of this Republican Party use the awesome powers of the presidency to instigate an insurrection against the legislature — a coup attempt, plain and simple. After the last time Republicans lost the presidency, in 2012, they famously held an “autopsy” to see what had gone wrong. This time, President Trump went straight to the cremation, throwing the Capitol, with Vice President Pence in it, onto the funeral pyre.

So many sounded the alarm for so long about Trump’s authoritarian instincts and violent rhetoric. For years, he instigated threats and violence against journalists (“enemy of the people”), racial and religious minorities, immigrants and Democrats. Yet Republicans excused him, defended him, enabled him. Now, in defeat, the autocrat showed the world his true colors and mobilized violence against Congress, Republicans included, and his own vice president.

What Trump’s mob did to the Capitol — the first time the seat of American government had been sacked since the War of 1812 — was evil. It was murder. It was domestic terrorism. It was sedition. And, yes, it was treason.

Yet what Trump’s Republican allies were doing inside the chambers of Congress at the time of the attack — Trump’s justification for inciting the riot — was just as seditious: They were attempting to overturn Joe Biden’s election as president, overrule the voters and install Trump, by fiat, for another term.

This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs.

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MontyPython said:
This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs

Opinion by Dana Milbank

Jan. 8, 2021 at 10:05 p.m. UTC

If any good could possibly come of the Trump-incited mob’s murderous attack on the United States Capitol,
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That's just factually incorrect. Hard to salvage am article built on such a false premise. Dems just won the WH on the backs of lawless, murderous mobs
 
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Oh Snap! Apple laying the smackdown on Parler.

You get booted off their platform, and you're dog meat.

Before the knuckledraggers here start screaming about 1A, know "free speech" is and always will be a limited concept. Just as you don't have the right to yell "FIRE!" in a movie theater, the President doesn't have the right to incite violent sedition.

"...Additionally, Google removed the free-speech alternative to Twitter, ‘Parler,’ from its Google Play store. The platform — largely adopted by conservatives — is being threatened by Apple to revise its policies and to moderate “objectionable content” moving forward.

Apple is giving the platform a 24-hour window to change its policies before they pull them off of the Apple App Store."
 
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MontyPython said:
Oh Snap! Apple laying the smackdown on Parler.

You get booted off their platform, and you're dog meat.

Before the knuckledraggers here start screaming about 1A, know "free speech" is and always will be a limited concept. Just as you don't have the right to yell "FIRE!" in a movie theater, the President doesn't have the right to incite violent sedition.

"...Additionally, Google removed the free-speech alternative to Twitter, ‘Parler,’ from its Google Play store. The platform — largely adopted by conservatives — is being threatened by Apple to revise its policies and to moderate “objectionable content” moving forward.

Apple is giving the platform a 24-hour window to change its policies before they pull them off of the Apple App Store."
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Good to know, thanks.
 
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MontyPython said:
Oh Snap! Apple laying the smackdown on Parler.

You get booted off their platform, and you're dog meat.

Before the knuckledraggers here start screaming about 1A, know "free speech" is and always will be a limited concept. Just as you don't have the right to yell "FIRE!" in a movie theater, the President doesn't have the right to incite violent sedition.

"...Additionally, Google removed the free-speech alternative to Twitter, ‘Parler,’ from its Google Play store. The platform — largely adopted by conservatives — is being threatened by Apple to revise its policies and to moderate “objectionable content” moving forward.

Apple is giving the platform a 24-hour window to change its policies before they pull them off of the Apple App Store."
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Better stay in line, comrade.
 
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MontyPython said:
Oh Snap! Apple laying the smackdown on Parler.

You get booted off their platform, and you're dog meat.

Before the knuckledraggers here start screaming about 1A, know "free speech" is and always will be a limited concept. Just as you don't have the right to yell "FIRE!" in a movie theater, the President doesn't have the right to incite violent sedition.

"...Additionally, Google removed the free-speech alternative to Twitter, ‘Parler,’ from its Google Play store. The platform — largely adopted by conservatives — is being threatened by Apple to revise its policies and to moderate “objectionable content” moving forward.

Apple is giving the platform a 24-hour window to change its policies before they pull them off of the Apple App Store."
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As usual your kindergarten understanding of law shows you have no clue about the “yelling fire in the theater” myth
 
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MontyPython said:
'It's like nothing I've ever seen'

"...For McConnell and Thune, the matter of simply stating the obvious -- that Joe Biden is the President-elect in McConnell's case, that a floor effort to overturn the results would fail catastrophically in Thune's -- served as the ultimate betrayal to Trump.

Trump's assistant stunned GOP senators when an unsolicited e-mail showed up with a PowerPoint slide that showed McConnell's polling in his 2020 Senate contest. Trump appeared to believe it showed his endorsement of McConnell, and a subsequent robocall on his behalf, was crucial to McConnell's victory.

McConnell won his race by nearly 20 points.

In Thune's case, the President wasted little time taking his 280-character blowtorch to a popular member of the Republican conference considered a top candidate to take over as GOP leader when McConnell departs.

"Republicans in the Senate so quickly forget. Right now they would be down 8 seats without my backing them in the last Election. RINO John Thune, "Mitch's boy", should just let it play out. South Dakota doesn't like weakness. He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!!!"

Trump's browbeating of his fellow Republicans in Congress follows a familiar pattern that's occurred throughout his presidential term, where at various point a GOP Senator or House member would raise concerns, only to face Trump's social media wrath.

What followed, according to several lawmakers who experienced it, was an explosion back in their home states or districts. Offices were barraged with furious callers and primary challenges were explored by local up-and-comers who pledged unyielding fealty to Trump.

"It's like nothing I've ever seen," a GOP senator told CNN. "You get singed by it once and realize OK, there's no real upside to going in that direction again."

It's a reality that has infuriated Democrats, many of whom regularly talk of hearing privately from their GOP colleagues how unseemly they find Trump's behavior. "But always privately. Always," a Democratic senator told CNN. "What an embarrassment."

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Trump forces his loyal minions to follow him blindly off the cliff, and the GOP follows.

Politics at its worse.

Will it ultimately end in the dissolution of the party? Will the GOP be anything other than the minority party of disaffected conspiracy theorists that it's become? Its platform appeals to anti-immigrant, 2A gun-toting, old white people. Not exactly the future of America.

Trump is a RINO. This is fact. Anyone who knew his politics prior to running for President will freely admit this.

In 2016, he absconded and corrupted the Republican party. Why? Because the Republican party let him. The GOP prioritized winning back the White House over principles in selecting him in 2016.

... and now this Frankenstein monster returns to smite its creator and 'master'.

Merry Christmas, GOP, and RIP!

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Lol he was a democrat for years and years. Swing and a miss
 
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