The RNC turns into an Orwellian horror show

[Zorro]

The Republican Party has betrayed our democratic system — first by refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, then by exonerating the violators and censuring the defenders of our Constitution at its recent meeting in Salt Lake City. The party time and again has sided with treacherous seditionists.

From fanning the “big lie” to fomenting a violent insurrection to whitewashing the violence to excusing the former president’s sedition to censuring two Republican representatives investigating Jan. 6 to blessing the violent insurrectionists (“ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” its resolution declared) the Republican Party has underscored its complete dependency on the delusional cult leader who candidly admits that he sought to overthrow the election and that he would pardon the violent seditionists.

Even sycophantic former vice president Mike Pence, who apparently struggled with the decision to try to reverse the election, was forced to concede, “President Trump is wrong. … I had no right to overturn the election.” But the party is now on record celebrating the coup and renouncing the sanctity of our elections. A star chamber rendering judgment on Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) seemed appropriate for a gang that has come to resemble the Party in George Orwell’s “1984.” Up is down, night is day. Trump is always right.

Republicans remaining under the banner of the GOP have a serious dilemma: Their membership in the pro-seditionist party is inconsistent with their oaths to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” After all, they remain allied with and thoroughly loyal to the chief domestic enemy of democracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/07/rnc-censures-cheney/

[samsingh]

1. agreed

[gristy]

2. Pretty good summary there

From fanning the “big lie” to fomenting a violent insurrection to whitewashing the violence to excusing the former president’s sedition to censuring two Republican representatives investigating Jan. 6 to blessing the violent insurrectionists (“ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” its resolution declared) the Republican Party has underscored its complete dependency on the delusional cult leader who candidly admits that he sought to overthrow the election and that he would pardon the violent seditionists.

[niyad]

3. Exactly.

[monkeyman1]

4. republican party should be eliminated ! the U.S. people make happen , problem solved !

[robfwtx]

5. Understand where they originated

Those in control of Today's GOP are who your grandparents knew as the Solid South and later the Dixiecrats. When you understand that and you know of Lee Atwater and the Southern Strategy, their source of hatred is our Party. Why? Because LBJ sided against them by signing the Civil and Voting Rights Acts.

They originally walked out of the 1948 DNC because they were starting to push integration. It would get worse with time. It's a black eye that they cover with attacks on social programs. The problem: Dwight D. Eisenhower was for social programs, unions, and many progressive ideas that today's Party has abandoned. Under Ike, Republicans were Progressive. It is a good read. Google "1956 Republican Platform" and read that at length. Pay close attention in the Declaration of Faith when they discuss Lincoln's view on the purpose of government. That's your first clue at the corruption brought by the Dixiecrats.

What I'd like to do is figure out a way to use history against them. Remind people just who they would have been in the 1950s. Hint: They weren't Republicans.

This is a good view of What Happened to the Party of Lincoln?: https://bit.ly/3qmlfj5

[gopiscrap]

6. wow this is what right wing hate radio does to folks

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

10. +1

[mitch96]

7. I wonder if this is how the whigs lost power back in the 1850's...

It's interesting how names change, platforms change but the underlying bullshit still remains..
Money and power, screw the people..
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[Lonestarblue]

8. Senator Margaret Chase Smith identified her party's underhanded tactics back in 1950.

“I do not want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear.” From a speech to the Senate, June 1 1960

I’m not old enough to remember what tactics Republicans were using then, but I suspect much of their rhetoric revolved around racism and stoking fear about the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. The only thing that has changed in Republican circles is that today they are far more blatant with their white supremacy and their efforts to deny civil rights—especially voting rights—to minorities and their open embrace of hatred and violence toward anyone who disagrees with them.

[WillUSAF]

9. Is it me?

Is it me or do others get that minor puke taste in the back of their mouth when they see a story about the RNC or any Republican? If I read too much about them I have to take a Prilosec before lying down...

[tavernier]

11. Couldn't have said it better.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Great piece............NC