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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, for all this is holy! Stop calling it the Republican Party, or GOP!
The Republican Party of yesteryear no longer exists.
It died a long time ago, from moral turpitude, self serving freeloader members, and a general lack of working for the best for all.
It died, and no one noticed, but the empty space left behind attracted some unsavoury characters.
Call it the PoT, instead, the Party of Trump.
A party with only one figurehead and a host of mindless followers, and no consistent or detailed platform, with a desire to limit and control people, isn't a political party at all.
It's a cult, by any definition.
Baron2024
(1,492 posts)What we have now is the monstrosity called MAGA. It sounds like a disease, and in some ways it is. MAGA is a fascist cancer in American politics. It needs to be beaten at the Ballot Box and cut out of our society.
LearnedHand
(5,604 posts)There are no innocents here.
Vogon_Glory
(10,357 posts)And when it seems appropriate, I call it the Gathering Of Psychotics.
Buns_of_Fire
(19,222 posts)As John Lennon could have said in "Working Class Hero", they're still fucking Nazis as far as I can see.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)There are 3 parties:
* The tRump party
* The rump RepubliCons (never-tRumpers & never-again-tRumpers)
* The Democratic Party
After the election, keep driving wedges between the tRump and the rump.
Kablooie
(19,121 posts)They are trying to paper the country with it.
speak easy
(12,598 posts)Roy Rolling
(7,712 posts)Lets find a better name and make it stick. Best suggestion wins.
Bring it.
Roy Rolling
(7,712 posts)Label them the:
New Klux Klan?
Coup Clux Clan?
dweller
(28,703 posts)CCC
✌🏻
YoshidaYui
(45,656 posts)all THAT is missing is the swastika
Roy Rolling
(7,712 posts)Hillary had it right. The gang leaders are deplorables, as in immoral, dregs of society. But she meant the hardcore MAGAts, the leadership. They are Nazi to the core.
The entire political party apparatus needs a fresh label that fits its 2025 image, who they are and who they aspire to be.
Nazi Party is taken.
Gore1FL
(22,982 posts)This is absolutely the Republican Party of yesteryear.
area51
(12,756 posts)it's Project 2025.
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