The MAGA crowd haunts Republicans

[Nevilledog]

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If admitting that Biden won the election is now a fault line in the GOP, a whole bunch of Republicans may be in trouble.

Opinion | The MAGA crowd haunts Republicans
Republicans' biggest problem may come from the right.
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/01/maga-crowd-haunts-republicans/

Most speculation about the post-2020 Republican Party has centered on whether a sensible cadre of conservatives can pull the party back from full-scale populism akin to European far-right actors such as the Alternative for Germany party and Poland’s Law and Justice party. This was, at best, wishful thinking, given that there are only a handful of Republicans in Congress who will admit that Joe Biden won the presidential election. The more interesting question is whether the MAGA crowd will undercut the Republicans from the right.

With elected Republicans such as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp under fire for not backing ludicrous conspiracy theories about the election, one has to wonder: Is it no longer enough to have bought into the right-wing agenda (e.g., destroying the Affordable Care Act, opposing mask-wearing)? Perhaps Kemp is too centrist for today’s Republican Party. If so, he might well face a primary challenge in 2022, a third-party run from a MAGA loyalist or, at the very least, a weak Republican turnout in what is expected to be a rematch against Democrat Stacey Abrams.

The dynamic is already well underway in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections. Without any evidence of fraud in the election, incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler have cried foul, demanding that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, step down. Raffensperger’s great sin was treating the election, which sent both incumbents to runoff contests, as legitimate. That might not be the best strategy, however, for keeping their seats.

The Post reports: “In some Trump-supporting circles on social media, there is talk of boycotting the election. . . . Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was campaigning in Georgia this weekend when she encountered some GOP voters who don’t see the point in voting if the election is supposedly rigged.” Dampening Republican enthusiasm for a “rigged” election was likely not what Perdue and Loeffler had in mind when they carried Trump’s water in challenging the presidential vote in Georgia.

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[BComplex]

1. I hope republicans boycott the next 25 elections all over the country. Maybe we can get some

things straightened out in this country, and get ourselves on a good path again.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. The MAGA crowd just might be the GOP's undoing.....

73 million of them voting against them, as Trump puts up his candidates in Primaries.

Democrats and the Press need to do their part in emphasizing how AFRAID McConnell Graham, and other Congressional Republicans are HYPOCRITES for not standing up for the Country when the facts staring them in the face that Trump lost.