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(51,582 posts)tRump loyalists, Tea Party members, old school GOP, or a comination of the three?
peggysue2
(10,826 posts)Think this ad hits it pretty square on. The Republicans have given up on the idea of basic democratic principles. They've sworn allegiance to Trump and will be looking to advance the next Trump clone, perhaps more articulate and savvy. But just as dangerous. In fact, more so because Trump fans are primed for more of the same, the strongman, the authoritarian, the individual who will make promises galore with no intention of fulfilling them. But always with a scapegoat to blame for failure.
Republican silence during this grim period is a mark of complicity. They've capitulated. They've chosen a side and it's simply not with the American people or anything that approaches what the country yearns to be, a better version of itself.
Never forget, never forgive.
Any of them.
ItsjustMe
(11,230 posts)Cha
(297,029 posts)Cha
(297,029 posts)Gothmog
(145,046 posts)Link to tweet
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poli-junkie
(1,002 posts)Republicans are an American Fascist party. Plain and simple. Its not Trumpism its Fascism! Expose the mfers!
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Have more in common with DEMS that THUGS, due to a semblance of integrity, maybe there IS hope to work together.
We STILL got a LOT of work ahead of us.
So fricken tired. Well good night DU!!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,839 posts)While I've identified as a Democratic Party member my entire adult life, I can readily understand the appeal of the old Republican Party, the one that actually had our country's best interests at heart. I'm not sure what I would think, what I would do if I were one of them, but I'm sure it would involve a lot of soul searching.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Democratic, Trumpist and Republican.
It will be a lot like the 1912 election.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,839 posts)I sincerely doubt Donald Trump will actually be running in 2024. That is really a long way away.
melman
(7,681 posts)pazzyanne
(6,546 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 24, 2020, 07:27 AM - Edit history (1)
When Reagan was elected, my Grandfather became a member of the DFL.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,839 posts)Ronald Reagan?
pazzyanne
(6,546 posts)judeling
(1,086 posts)figured it be safer in then out.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)DTomlinson
(411 posts)Darkstar53142
(71 posts)It is now a tool for fringe extremists of a most horrid nature. The party appeals to fundamentalists of low intelligence who are easily manipulated by bumper sticker slogans and dog-whistle propaganda.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,309 posts)DFW
(54,328 posts)It will also fly straight above the heads of 80% of Americans who vote Republican, and who will not have a clue what the ad is talking about.
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JHB
(37,158 posts)Best_man23
(4,897 posts)As in "licking tRump's ass."
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,354 posts)looks a lot like Norman Bates from Psycho?
Roc2020
(1,614 posts)just shredding the republicans...man that was a vicious ad!
lark
(23,083 posts)Boom goes the dynamite!