Posted on 03/21/2022 11:52:38 AM PDT by Mariner
They are a distinct minority in their own party and, for that matter, their country: Republican holdouts amid an ever-widening consensus that Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine poses a mortal threat to American interests.
A far right wing of the Republican Party tightly bound to former President Donald Trump is fighting to push the GOP toward the “America First” isolationism that underpinned his 2016 presidential bid.
For the first time since Trump’s rise, his party is pushing back.
That much was clear from the House vote Thursday on a bill ending normal trade relations with Russia as punishment for attacking Ukraine. A total of 202 Republicans joined with 222 Democrats in voting to allow the Biden administration to raise tariffs on Russia, a rare bipartisan consensus in an era of fierce polarization.
Eight Republicans voted against the measure, including Trump loyalists like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. In a speech on the House floor Thursday, Greene gave a succinct summary of an America First argument that has been getting little traction in the face of deepening sympathy for the Ukrainians’ suffering. After objecting to the abundant attention the war is getting, she said that what “real Americans care about are gas prices that they can’t afford,” inflation and security along the southern border.
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After years of calling MAGA supporters a cult without the ability to think independently.
I'm rooting for the total destruction of the Globo HomoNazi Oligarch Left and all who follow them.
Trump only has 95% support in the Party.
Agree all points.
Kayfabe in Kiev.
Samuel Finlay.
Great piece.
That's really not relevant. Either there is a US national security interest in becoming overtly involved in Ukraine or there is not - REGARDLESS of who is President.
#CIATheMostTrustedNameInNews
It remains fascinating how The Trumpster still scares the diapers off the dim crowd. And the Rino bunch quick-steps right in behind with the wipes. The corruption is way way deep.
How so?
There is no doubt Russia is the aggressor here, I don’t condone their actions at all, but don’t think for one minute that I think we should be sending our kids to die for UKraine.
If you want to have a hot war with Russia then our goal should be unequivocally to march all the way to Moscow…. Not an easy task or one o have any confidence our political class would follow through on.
We’ve wasted enough blood abs treasure on these idiots whims…
Completely avoidable war, and no Americans should be dying to bail Z out of his stupidity…. No doesn’t mean I agree with Russia’s actions, but Z’s complete idiotic behaviors and lack of understanding geopolitics…. Along with a dementia puppet in the white house and sycophants in Europe are why we are where we are.
Yes!
Dealing with GWB taught us one thing.
What you see...what you are told....
Don’t believe it unless you have the entire story.
Uh, yeah, not seeing it.
Exactly.
Anything that knocks Putin down is good.
But that doesn’t mean America needs to get involved.
Biden is hated. He is propped up by the deep state, the media, and money that is thrown far and wide to zombies who support him. He could parade around with Putin’s head in a skillet and only our freeper Ukraine trolls would gloat and cheer him. It wouldn’t do crap for his popularity except in media polls which would give him the same approval as W. Bush.
MTG is right. I’m with her. I don’t care how popular that view is.
Stay
Out
No more wars!!!!!
Ditto.
If Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine is a “mortal threat to American interests” then we need to reconsider what those interests are.
I root for the Mets, but I always put America First.
Trump's post-White House political operation, Save America, raised $3.5M in February, and now has over $110M cash on hand.
That's more cash on hand than the RNC, the DNC, and the Biden campaign combined. https://t.co/bgubtrg9ZF pic.twitter.com/54o2mXsap4— Brendan Fischer (@brendan_fischer) March 21, 2022
😂
America First!
Then Astros, then Yankees :-)
“90% of American supported going to war in Iraq.”
I was one, too. I fell for the propaganda, and the arrogant, childish idea of “Spread Democracy to The World!” crowd.
So much wrong comes from sticking our nose in other people’s business. Who appointed us God? All it brought was failed interventions, millions dead, and half the world hates us for it.
The “Regime Change!” crowd is mentally ill. They can’t accept reality. They think they can remake the world in their own image.
So arrogant, and so wrong.
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