STOP SAYING "MAGA" WHEN REFERRING TO REPUBLICANS!

[Mme. Defarge]

The problem isn’t some fringe cult! As others on DU have pointed out, the problem is the entire opposition party. If there are individual Republicans in congress who aren’t subject to blackmail, or actually have high moral standards and something known as courage, they should re-register as Democrats or as a members of a different party.

[JI7]

1. Who said they are fringe ? MAGA is just another description for mainstream republicans

[gab13by13]

3. John McCain was the last Congressional Republican, he died.

Oops, no wait, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were the last Republicans.

Liz Cheney was one of the most radical Republicans in Congress and what happened to her and Adam? Magats threw them out of their party.

If the Republican party is still viable then Liz Cheney would still be in Congress.

[gab13by13]

2. The Republican Party is dead.

Republicans fell asleep and the body snatchers got to them. They look and talk like Republicans, but they have morphed into Magats.

Congressional Magats follow orders from Krasnov. Can I call him Krasnov?

[mountain grammy]

4. I agree with this!

[Biophilic]

5. Yes! It's the republican party, it's republicans and anyone who supports republicans.

[DoBW]

6. thanks, but they're maggats

[MurrayDelph]

7. It's a time saving method

Because saying "those fucking useless spineless fascist pseudo-Christian collaborators and cowards" takes too long.

[hlthe2b]

8. I could not DISAGREE more with this premise. The Republican party died with Trump. MAGA has acquired the "mantel"

And there are NO remaining old-school Republicans in Congress. Maybe a few deluded remnants at the state level--but none in Congress. The party IS MAGA.

[hatrack]

9. There is no "Republican Party" - there is only Trump and MAGA.

At some point, there will be some shuffling of feet and muttering and throat-clearing by MAGA members of Congress.

After that, some version of "Well, I never really supported Trump, as shown by my vote to continue debate on Subsection 3.A.II of the Help America Teach Excellence By Reading Online With Neighbors Providing Excellent Opportunities Providing Learning Excellence Act year before last", followed by some unfocused staring into the distance.

This will happen after, not before, The Great Leader finally gets his call on the bone phone.

[mr715]

10. That is really funny

True

[msongs]

11. you forgot the t. MAGAt. nt

[mucholderthandirt]

12. No. The entire party is MAGA. I'll call them what I damned well please, and they are MAGA idiots.

[Stacey Grove]

13. I call them right wing terrorists

[H2O Man]

14. No thank you.

I do agree it is not a "fringe cult." Maga is the republican party.

[purr-rat beauty]

15. Far from fringe...cultish, ya

that shit is mainstream now

[Jack Valentino]

16. And the REST should register as NAZIS! (They really HATE it when you call a duck a duck,

or an alleged 'Republican' who is actually a Nazi, a NAZI!)

[Jack Valentino]

17. Just call them "BABY-KILLERS" now, if they refuse to fund SNAP!

All the politician 'members' of the 'party' formerly known as 'the Republican party',
are now members of a criminal organization, not a political party---
who only 'care' about 'babies' before they are actually born,
and care nothing about them afterwards--- only about their
baby billionaires....

All those magats with children on SNAP are about to FIND OUT!---
their 'dear leader' thinks they are 'ALL DEMOCRATS', and should thus STARVE,
and he doesn't believe in polls or statistical facts, including THEM....

[valleyrogue]

18. The party IS MAGA. What I loathe is the continual labeling of these extremists as "conservatives."

It tells me the person using it hasn't a clue that "conservatism" hasn't existed for at least since George W. Bush left office-years ago now. It gives a person's age right off the bat when they mischaracterize right-wing extremists, Aryan Nations, KKK types, crackpots, religious fanatics, and the usual people with fascistic ideas as "conservatives."

I basically stopped reading Jessica Valenti's Substack because she kept using that word to describe the antiabortion whackos and their political supporters.

[Mme. Defarge]

19. Conservative

is the absolute last thing that they are.

[valleyrogue]

21. If anything, it is the Democrats who are "conservative." n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

20. I don't have a problem with using either word.

They are interchangeable.

"Never Trumpers" is available to refer to paleoconservatives.

[Autumn]

22. MAGAtts. Each and everyone of them. I don't want any of them in my party. None.