Posted on 10/22/2022 6:32:58 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Jan. 6 committee, which held its ninth and likely final hearing Thursday, has lionized the figure of the Decent Republican. Liz Cheney, vice chair of the committee, was its obvious star, imbued with moral authority by the fact that she’d sacrificed her position in Republican leadership, and possibly her political career, to stand up to Donald Trump.
There were many others. “When you look back at what has come out through this committee’s work, the most striking fact is that all this evidence comes almost entirely from Republicans,” the committee’s Democratic chair, Bennie Thompson, said Thursday.
This attempt to separate Trump from the Republican Party made political sense. But the emphasis on Republican valor meant that the story the committee told, while compelling, was incomplete. Going forward, the threat to the American experiment comes not just from Trump, but from the Republican base, which is making the figure of the Decent Republican a quaint curiosity.
The problem for Decent Republicans is that their party’s internal democracy makes a commitment to democracy writ large impossible. For decades, prominent right-wing politicians, pastors and pundits — Ms. Cheney very much included — cultivated in their base the belief that Democrats represent totalitarian evil.
Not surprisingly, the base came to see Democratic victories as intolerable and rejected candidates who would respect the results of general elections. As The Washington Post reported, a majority of Republican nominees for House, Senate and important statewide offices either doubt or deny that Joe Biden won in 2020.
Queen of the election deniers is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. In his engrossing new book “Weapons of Mass Delusion,” Robert Draper chronicles Greene’s rise in parallel with Cheney’s fall.
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And the Constitution is a living document.
And a woman can be a man.
And truth is a social construct.
Somebody needs to tell this ditzy broad that the “experiment” is over. We had built the greatest country on this planet and their dumb asses came along and screwed it up. There’s an American flag on the moon put there by an American. None of the other flakey bastards on this planet can say that.
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
It is the American Experiment. Progressivism is NOT the American Experiment..
and liberals dont want to follow the rules passed by democracy in regards to elections.
Experiment? That would make the American people essentially into lab rats. Okay, Michelle Goldberg, if that’s how you want to play it, I can’t imagine how it will go for you. Experiment. Lol. These people. Wow.
Who is this Typical Left Wing Jew Activist ?
Who cares what this Demon thinks ?
The January 6 committee is an inquisition. The good news is that it shows how nervous the globalists have become. They are losing control and they know it.
NeoCons needs to learn to take an L with some level of decency.
She must be talking about the CONvid-19 experiment. No?
“ American experiment”, nope we’re way past the experimental stage....... this is proven science! 🤣🤣😇😇
Come on, folks. This is from the New York Slimes. A Babylon Bee wannabee, but they think that its “news” is real.
“Fundamentally change America.” - Democrat Barry Soetero
“Republicans don’t believe in the American Experiment”.
Blatantly false. Conservatives believe so deeply in the American Experiment that when people “experiment” with it (i.e. tinker with it) by standing it on its head, we object.
Democrat’s American experiment involves mutilating children.
Evil scum.
Conservatives don’t believe in experiments. We believe in doing what has proven to work. Radical leftism/ Marxism DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!!
American Experiment = Communist Utopia
Not really an experiment! Socialism has been tried hundreds of times and failed every time!
That's a knife in the back. /Crocodile Dundee
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