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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,136 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 01:17 PM Aug 2020

Trump has officially turned the GOP into the QAnon Party

There's just six months left in Donald Trump's presidential term. I think it's fair to say the office isn't going to change him.

But it's possible that he just changed the Republican Party forever.

In praising adherents of the deranged QAnon conspiracy theory — as well as publicly endorsing two overt bigots who won their nominations to represent the Republican Party in November's congressional elections — Trump has officially made the GOP the party of the internet scumbag.

The Party of Lincoln InfoWars

Mainstream Republicans for the past four years have held their noses during Trump's most embarrassing tantrums, ragestorms, and racist blurts. They've dutifully swallowed their pride and surrendered their spines. In doing so, they've allowed the rot on the fringes of the right to seep further and further into the party's core.

Trump's latest trifecta just puts the stamp of approval on the rot.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-officially-turned-the-gop-into-the-qanon-party/ar-BB18c2XJ?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=hplocalnews

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Trump has officially turned the GOP into the QAnon Party (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
The QBannon Party Blue Owl Aug 2020 #1
+1 That's good, too! LOL nt OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2020 #3
The QAnon Party....it has a nice ring to it. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2020 #2
QAnon? AZ8theist Aug 2020 #4
GQP BillyBobBrilliant Aug 2020 #5
Swallowed their Pride? yankee87 Aug 2020 #6

OAITW r.2.0

(24,556 posts)
2. The QAnon Party....it has a nice ring to it.
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 01:23 PM
Aug 2020

Personally, I like the Organized Crime Party better, but if The QAnon Party becomes the new brand, that's OK, too.

yankee87

(2,175 posts)
6. Swallowed their Pride?
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 07:15 PM
Aug 2020

I do not believe they swallowed their pride This is just the logical conclusion of the Rethuglican Party staring with the election of Saint Ronnie who hated "intellectuals". Remember when Saint Ronnie the Moron taking down the solar panels on the White House roof, to Dan Quayle, to Bush the Idiot, to Caribou Barbie to 45. When I was young the Birchers were laughed at with their wild conspiracy theories, now the presidents embraces them.

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