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2023 is the year for hunting heretics
The late political analyst Mark Shields was fond of classifying partisans into two types: those who seek converts and those who carry on crusades to root out heretics. Former President Trump is the ultimate heretic hunter. After Trump claimed the 2020 election was stolen, membership in the Republican Party required an oath of fealty to Trump’s “Big Lie,” and anyone who believed otherwise was automatically labeled a RINO (Republican in name only).
Among the excommunicated were former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), nearly all those who voted to impeach Trump and anyone who testified before the Jan. 6 committee. Today, 65 percent of Republicans say their leaders should accept the premise that the 2020 election was stolen, and any prospective presidential nominee who believes otherwise stands little chance with 2024 primary voters.
Several Republicans are emulating Trump’s strategy of hunting heretics. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who in many ways is a Trump protege, is on the warpath: removing school superintendents who enforced COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates, falsely arresting former convicts who legitimately voted in 2020, waging war against the Disney Corporation and boasting that he “will never surrender to the woke mob.”
Ironically, the impending Trump-DeSantis 2024 contest has taken the idea of heresy to a new level. Mike Lindell, a.k.a the My Pillow Guy and ardent defender of the “Big Lie,” claims DeSantis rigged his own 11-point reelection victory in Miami-Dade County and promises an “investigation.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3806109-2023-is-the-year-for-hunting-heretics/
Among the excommunicated were former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), nearly all those who voted to impeach Trump and anyone who testified before the Jan. 6 committee. Today, 65 percent of Republicans say their leaders should accept the premise that the 2020 election was stolen, and any prospective presidential nominee who believes otherwise stands little chance with 2024 primary voters.
Several Republicans are emulating Trump’s strategy of hunting heretics. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who in many ways is a Trump protege, is on the warpath: removing school superintendents who enforced COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates, falsely arresting former convicts who legitimately voted in 2020, waging war against the Disney Corporation and boasting that he “will never surrender to the woke mob.”
Ironically, the impending Trump-DeSantis 2024 contest has taken the idea of heresy to a new level. Mike Lindell, a.k.a the My Pillow Guy and ardent defender of the “Big Lie,” claims DeSantis rigged his own 11-point reelection victory in Miami-Dade County and promises an “investigation.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3806109-2023-is-the-year-for-hunting-heretics/
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