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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It was almost 20 years ag I first posted a thread on the Kirk 10. They still make one of the best outlines
And peanut butter comes from horse manure
The talk about Trump is a distraction from the “experiment” Biden’s team is performing on us now.
This much I know...
The left/dems are not too bright. They are not able to think anything thru ..
They think, act, talk, and want, the same things lucifer wanted/wants.
They want control over people and everything people have.
They want the restrictions removed.
What are the restrictions?
Trump, Christians, MAGA. Guns, self thinkers... and anything good ...
Lately that luciferian spirit has hung over America like a dark crowd.. and that dark cloud comes from what/who is giving it voice and room to act...
It comes from the government...
Their master is the spirit of lucifer.
..and it hates Trump.
It doesn't matter what any pubbie may have said over the years. The Bidet regime has PROVEN this point in abundant detail. Dhimmicrats ARE evil totalitarians.
The experiment failed. Same reason we dont believe the earth is flat.
"Final?" I wish.
“Michelle Goldberg: The Republicans don’t believe in the American experiment (BARF)”
There was an American experiment from 2008-1016 and it failed miserably. 2016-2020 was an America that was once again prosperous and peaceful and for all Trump did to get us there, the idiots once again chose to partake in an experiment that in the entire history of human existence never worked.
The so called American experiment was never a suicide pact.
Says the American hating Marxist.
An Aspen Institute darling:
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/tag/michelle-goldberg/
And so is Giorgi Meloni
The Constitution is on life support. “Progressives” don’t believe in it.
The Deep State’s experiments with totalitarianism do not qualify as part of the “American Experiment”.
Pure projection.
Who the heck still reads the NYT?
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