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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue Jul 20, 2021, 08:19 AM Jul 2021

State Republicans shun lawmakers critical of Trump and his big lie

But rank-and-file Republican officials actively working to tip the scales to placate the whims of a one-term president are breaking new ground.

“We’re in a period now with a former president who has grievances of his own party and he’s using his clout and his megaphone and his power to attempt to exact revenge on those individuals. And in certain states where Trump is popular or where an incumbent political figure has taken a deeply unpopular political position, you are seeing some internal opposition,” said Matt Mackowiak, the chairman of the Travis county GOP, in Texas.

He added: “I think we’re living in a time now where party officials don’t feel as duty-bound to support every member of the party, particularly if they’ve gone in a different direction on a fairly important issue.”
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Even more unusual, these internal Republican party conflicts have little to do with a broad swath of policy disagreements. Instead they are often about whether a candidate supported Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/20/state-republicans-shun-lawmakers-critical-trump-big-lie|]
Emphasis mine

So unless you are ready to buy into insurrection and sedition you no longer belong in the republican party at state level also. Good to know.

Full on authoritarian with a splash of nazi...
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State Republicans shun lawmakers critical of Trump and his big lie (Original Post) Soph0571 Jul 2021 OP
We're in strange times....... secondwind Jul 2021 #1

secondwind

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Tue Jul 20, 2021, 08:38 AM
Jul 2021

I find all of this very disconcerting, the anti-vaxxers, the adulation of a twice- impeached megalomaniac, the voter suppression, the hate, etc. It’s all too much.. I think of taking a little hiatus from DU, being in the Caribbean gives me no choice but to check in once in a while.

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