Ted Cruz gets heckled and harassed by a right winger at TX State GOP Convention

[CatWoman]

Link to tweet

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Good. Who was the heckler?

[CatWoman]

2. don't know

but he did a damn fine job.

[czarjak]

3. PLEASE PROCEED

[Scrivener7]

4. Wow. They all hate each other.

[JohnSJ]

5. If we lose the House, I would expect there will be a major fight among them for majority leader

[Lovie777]

6. But it's the Dems that are in disarray . . ..

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. A rightwinger? Really?

Hard to imagine any rightwinger isn't absolutely fine with Cruz kowtowing to Trump after Trump insulted his wife. Any real rightwinger would accept Trump insulting his own wife!

[Diablo del sol]

8. We beat down these idiots now or this is the future

Idiot pukes know one thing, how to fight and tear down. Once they get through those of color, LGBTQ, libs, they will tear themselves apart.

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Rafaelito deserves to be heckled

by everyone, from every direction. I don't even care who does the heckling any more. He is an odious excuse for a human being.

[Cheezoholic]

10. We're seeing more of this lately on the right and to me it's concerning

I've always thought of political ideology as a clock with 12 being the center. If one hand of the clock is anywhere between 3 and 12 on the right and the other is anywhere between 9 and 12 on the left they would both be within the realm of sensible ideologies of either side. But when one side begins to drift into extreme's past either 3 or 9 our system of government is in trouble. No matter how you look at it, the farthest extreme of either ideology would be 6. There would be no difference between the 2 except whom and how either side got there. Either way we end up in a totalitarian system.

As virtuous as we on left think we are, without a responsible conservative opposition can we be trusted not to eventually become just as power hungry as the far right is now? I'm not so sure. If the republicans implode the hope would be that current centrist democrats would break off to replace them. I could live with that, but I'm not sure how plausible that is.

It is extremely important in this experiment that is our country to have strength, responsible strength yes, in both ideologies. We need to be really concerned about a republican party off the rails, losing any ties to democracy. Not only if the extreme right assumes power in the party but if they can assume power in the country. I fear that's where they're headed and if we can fend off the right wing extremism it will probably be at the expense of the republican party itself. In the short term we on the left could possibly shout victory. But in the long term without an adversary, the left could be doomed to the same fate of extremism

I would say using my clock analogy that the left is at 10 and the right is at 5 currently. There are still a few "good" republicans out there in the political space, but even more in the voter space. I hope to hell they can humble themselves just a bit and rid themselves of this infectious extreme right wing fascism that is hijacking their party. Just MHO.

[Texaswitchy]

11. It coming king of the mountain time for the republican party

Who can be the more right wing.

The more Nazi.

[wnylib]

13. Nazis went through that kind of internal fighting, too.

By the time that Adolf became dictator, several of his earlier followers and thugs had been purged from the party.

[Texaswitchy]

14. The earlier followers are just useful to get in power.

History is repeating itself.

[Hortensis]

15. Cruz's heckler uses MAGA "RINO hunt" language. They've been stirred up

to attack and purge Republicans insufficiently loyal to tRump and what's become an archconservative anti-democracy movement with strong fascistic features. Horribly similar to Hitler loyalist behaviors in Germany and other nations. The Hitler Party itself, though, reportedly made very strong use of assassinations, blackmails, election thefts, violence, many authorities in southern Germany already in sympathy when they came along..

Btw, I read that the Kochs are helping finance MAGA loyalist purges in TX, so no doubt elsewhere as well.

Maybe we should call these people "trashists." They couldn't take out Cruz until 2024, though, which'll give him plenty of time to weasel in wherever he needs to.

[UTUSN]

12. They've been having themselves a grand old party, to coin a phrase!