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RainCaster

(12,786 posts)
2. The GOP has completely lost their way
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 08:21 PM
Jan 2025

Once upon a time we had two real parties in this country. They challenged each other and made each other better in some ways, not so much in others. Now we have only one party because the GOP has become the Party Of Whatever Trump Wants. They are no longer a party that means anything else.

Party of Law & Order? Not when you promote a felon to the White House.

Party of Fiscal Responsibility? Too many decades of handing tax break to the wealthy did that one in.

Party of Family Values? Not when you promote rapists to run our country.

The GOP has broken this country completely. Trump should have been convicted within a year of leaving office, but that didn't happen because there are too many Republicans in power in all the places that matter. SCOTUS, FBI, DOJ, Commerce, etc. It will take decades to clean up this mess and it will require a complete rethinking of how government should be formed and run. Is the DNC up to it? I have my doubts.

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It's really clear there were a lot of bigoted racist sexist creeps that would not vote for a woman, let alone a WOC PortTack Jan 2025 #1
I think it was H2O Man Jan 2025 #11
The GOP has completely lost their way RainCaster Jan 2025 #2
Explosive diarrhea combined with the spread of lies in our media groundloop Jan 2025 #3
The things thar spoil it for me (US governance in general): Aussie105 Jan 2025 #4
Biden trashed over Afghanistan, Hillary over Benghazi Skittles Jan 2025 #5
jake crapper's foaming at the mouth outrage against President Biden because of that, caused me to BLOCK CNN from JohnSJ Jan 2025 #8
Yes, apropos of your highlighted text, I've seen a cartoon of a donkey cleaning up after an elephant. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2025 #6
Well said. The problem is, and it is going to get much worse, is the MSM will do the framing of the issues, and it JohnSJ Jan 2025 #7
I think your last sentence is why we lose. Progressives have given up. TomCADem Jan 2025 #9
Difference being VBNMW Jan 2025 #14
As I Said, Progressives Look for Scapegoats to Blame Their Inaction TomCADem Jan 2025 #15
No rewards for being "the adult in the room" Bluetus Jan 2025 #10
Anyone who voted for Trump is a fuckwit or a sociopath. No exceptions. hunter Jan 2025 #12
You Guv polls just came out with a poll on this womanofthehills Jan 2025 #13
Part of it was "Over Confidence". republianmushroom Jan 2025 #16
A great post. NNadir Jan 2025 #17
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