Charles Pierce: The Republican Party Is a Party of Subversives

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21. Thank you, Charlie Pierce.

It's difficult to find a journalist who cuts to the chase as cleanly as Mr. Pierce.


More from his March 12, 2015 piece, The Republican Party Is a Party of Subversives:

..... I believe they mean it. I believe they want to carry us back not just to the Gilded Age, but to the golden era in the 1780's when you needed a passport to go from Connecticut to New Jersey. I believe that is the basis for the efforts of people like Perry and Governor Bat Boy down in Florida to poach industries from other states and to hell with the national interest. I believe that is what animates ALEC in its campaign to create little hell-states individually across the map and its larger campaign to keep the federal government from doing anything about it. I don't think the modern Republican party believes in anything called "the national interest."

The Republican party is a mechanism for the subversion of the federal republic. It doesn't matter if the party's stars are doing it to please The Base, or because they don't know any better, or because they think it's the right thing to do. They are actively working to undermine the American union. This should be the first question asked of any Republican leader, of any Republican candidate, and certainly of obvious anagram Reince Preibus, the emptiest suit in American politics. They should be asked, every day, in every forum, if they believe in the Supremacy Clause, the Reconstruction amendments, and the federal union. These are yes-or-no questions. I hope we can get the answers before Molly White gets elected to the House of Representatives. But one thing I'm not doing any more is laughing.

The freaking right wing disaster that holds the country hostage is no better exemplified than by this thieving charlatan crouching in the Florida Governor's office. The Bat Boy is enabled by a right wing Republican occupation of the legislature, in a choking grip on Florida that has lasted nearly 20 years.



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