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The RNC's provocative response to its censure critics
This rift apparently isnt ending anytime soon. And it embodies the Trump-era GOPs dilemma.On Tuesday afternoon, we wrote about how the controversial censure resolutions passed by the Republican National Committee last week demonstrated the bifurcated nature of todays GOP. Youve got the party apparatus servicing the demands of a Jan. 6-revisionist, Trump-y base, against a party leadership that assures it believes this stuff is counterproductive at best, and even just plain wrong.
Just a few hours later, the RNC itself drove home that point in rather remarkable terms.
As top Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) rebuked the censures of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), the RNC suggested critics were merely stuck in the D.C. bubble.
Outside of the D.C. bubble, our grass roots are very supportive of the decision to hold Cheney and Kinzinger accountable, the RNCs communications director, Danielle Alvarez, told The Washington Posts Josh Dawsey and Felicia Sonmez.
The RNC said Wednesday morning that the statement was intended for other critics and noted that the question it was responding to was about the grass roots.
Mainstream media is doing what it does best being dishonest, Alvarez said in a written statement. Outside of DC, where grassroots Americans live that the RNC represents, people are more concerned about Joe Biden and Democrats failed policies burying them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/09/rncs-provocative-rebuttal-mcconnell-co/
Keep it up, fascists.
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The RNC's provocative response to its censure critics (Original Post)
Zorro
Feb 2022
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No, the gop is stuck in the 'bubble' and stuck in neverland, somewhere NOT in the USA, etc.
SWBTATTReg
Feb 2022
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SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)1. No, the gop is stuck in the 'bubble' and stuck in neverland, somewhere NOT in the USA, etc.
After all, they seem bent and determined in stripping away any rights from all Americans (excepts guns)...
Zorro
(15,691 posts)2. Fascist supporters don't understand
Fascists will take away their guns once in power.