Ugly new attacks on Republicans who defied Trump hint at a dark GOP future

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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Everyone is laughing at this GOP quote about Pat Toomey:

"We did not send him there to do the right thing. We sent him there to represent us."

But the idea that "representing" GOP voters means impunity for Trump is the mainstream GOP position. New piece:

Opinion | Ugly new attacks on Republicans who defied Trump hint at a dark GOP future
Republicans who told voters the truth about Trump are getting censured and condemned.
washingtonpost.com
8:46 AM · Feb 16, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/16/david-ball-toomey-pennsylvania-gop/

If you believe that the health of our civic life depends in part on having a pro-democracy, pro-empiricism center right in this country, you will be deeply dispirited by some new comments from a Pennsylvania Republican that have now gone viral.

David Ball, the chair of the Washington County GOP, vented his anger at Sen. Pat Toomey, fellow Republican of Pennsylvania, who committed the apostasy of joining six other GOP senators in voting to convict former president Donald Trump of inciting insurrection.

“We did not send him there to vote his conscience,” Ball said on Monday. “We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us.”

The first half of this comment is generating headlines. After all, the unvarnished expression of the idea that Toomey’s proper role was to side with Trump, rather than do what his conscience dictates, is unintentionally revealing.

But the second half — the notion that representing Republican voters required this of Toomey — is also telling, and suggests the ongoing GOP war over Trump’s legacy may well lead to a very dark place.

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[dalton99a]

1. The party of death and destruction

They represent and offer nothing but lies, greed, and racism

[MiniMe]

2. So representing them means not doing the right thing?

That's just special

[samsingh]

3. if any of the repugs who voted against Trump

had any concern for the country's longterm future, they should become Independents and caucus with the Democratic Party in the House and the Senate. This would take power away from the fascist wing of the republican party and allow it to either be irrelevant or purge the extremists.