Broken democratic mechanisms and a split conservative party? Surely this doesn’t proceed a fascist dictatorship…right?..RIGHT?!
The hydra feeds upon its many heads, hurting itself in the confusion but somehow does not die
Can the Republicans just have their party schism already? The MAGA crowd took over the RNC leadership years ago, just admit it and make a new party - or better yet clean house and oust them from your ranks.
They’re already clearly a coalition party as evidenced by the speaker elections and budget votes.
Nah a coalition is people voluntarily working together on purpose. The present day Republican Party is a hostage scenario - the moderates might want out, but don’t dare leave the fundraising & media machine behind if they do escape
Because anyone thinking of leaving the RNC understands how the game is rigged for them and the DNC, and any new party has pretty much no chance. And they also know that if they kicked the crazies out (if they even could), the only thing left of the party would be a husk. The crazy base is their power source right now.
Agreed that the entrenched duopoly is no accident, but we also don’t have a Federalist party anymore either. The popular support eroded beneath them due to poor policy choices/outcomes, and that faction was politically homeless for years, and decades before they formed a new and coherent party structure with longevity. Which itself was enabled by the patronage and spoils that soured voters on the Jeffersonian-Democrats.
Adapt or die, it’s no different in biology or politics
To be clear, I’m not saying it can’t happen (and it seems like it will eventually), but nobody in either half is surviving that split, and they know it. They’re stuck with each other as they careen off this cliff.
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The Libertarian Party has about 700,000 members and is on the ballot in all 50 states. I’ve been imagining a hostile takeover for some time.
Now he can get back to his first love, beating off to Internet porn that his kid is also watching.
That teenage boy definitely has a way around that stupid software. He’s probably watching videos of mature, hairy ladies peeing and beating off right now. And he will be accountable to noone!
I forgot about that stupid software and his pact with his teenage son. Not only is that pact inappropriate, I can’t see how a teenager wouldn’t have a way around any technology restrictions a parent places on them, whether it’s porn, social media, etc.
To me he always looks like one of those old, colorized photos, or maybe a ventriloquist dummy. Maybe it’s the rosy cheeks, I dunno.
The kind that grew up on mayo on white bread sandwiches.
Watching the party call MAGA Mike Johnson – the guy who they hand chose because he was as MAGA as they come – call him a RINO because he couldn’t unite their basket of rabid weasels is just
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Man I hope they vacate him, too. Only need a few more Republican resignations and the Democrats can take over this year…
Like, sexually?
Yes
They want a government shut down because they think it will damage Biden. They want chaos because it lets them spread conspiracies and lies. This guy doing the bare minimum to actually do his job is a betrayal to them.
