Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
The Republican Party is enabling Trump's politics of violence
(CNN) - The Republican Party is ever closer to the destination to which it has long been headed under former President Donald Trump -- the legitimization of violence as a form of political expression.
The Republican National Committee's censure of GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for probing the "legitimate political discourse" of the January 6 insurrection enshrined that principle in the party's policy dogma. The move on Friday underscored the untethered extremism of large sections of one of America's great political parties and the still malignant, dominant influence of the ex-President, who is ready for action with a $122 million war chest.
The RNC's declaration coincided with the release of new video by the Department of Justice showing the horrific truth of the insurrection -- a Trump mob, high on his election lies, beating up police officers and vowing to drag lawmakers through the streets. But the RNC's authoritarian was at odds with some anti-Trump stirrings elsewhere in the party, most noticeably from ex-Vice President Mike Pence, who criticized his ex-boss' demand that he steal the election by subverting the Electoral College count last year as "un-American."
The potentially irrevocable break with Trump boosted Republicans who despair at the party's trashing of truth and democracy and occurred amid perhaps wishful whisperings among some strategists that the ex-President's grip may be weakening. These could be the first shoots of a coming debate over whether Trump should be the party's nominee for a third time, in 2024.
The Republican National Committee's censure of GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for probing the "legitimate political discourse" of the January 6 insurrection enshrined that principle in the party's policy dogma. The move on Friday underscored the untethered extremism of large sections of one of America's great political parties and the still malignant, dominant influence of the ex-President, who is ready for action with a $122 million war chest.
The RNC's declaration coincided with the release of new video by the Department of Justice showing the horrific truth of the insurrection -- a Trump mob, high on his election lies, beating up police officers and vowing to drag lawmakers through the streets. But the RNC's authoritarian was at odds with some anti-Trump stirrings elsewhere in the party, most noticeably from ex-Vice President Mike Pence, who criticized his ex-boss' demand that he steal the election by subverting the Electoral College count last year as "un-American."
The potentially irrevocable break with Trump boosted Republicans who despair at the party's trashing of truth and democracy and occurred amid perhaps wishful whisperings among some strategists that the ex-President's grip may be weakening. These could be the first shoots of a coming debate over whether Trump should be the party's nominee for a third time, in 2024.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics/trump-republican-party-politics-of-violence/index.html
3 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
