• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      It’s meant to be a call back to the days of “Lincoln Republicans” - when President Lincoln built much of his reputation on a true “rags to power” story after being born in a literal log cabin in Kentucky. Lincoln Republicans coalesced around Lincoln’s belief in true equality and freedom for all regardless of race. The LCR is an extension of that and arose during a fight against anti-LGBT laws in California in the 1970s.

      However I’d argue that the rest of the GOP has fallen so far down the rabbit hole these days that the LCR’s are “in name only” supporters of gay rights and have no reason to exist as an organization.

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    4 months ago

    Wtf is a gay republican. It’s just as dumb as black republicans. Like what do you even stand for? Losing your rights and fighting to become a slave?

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      4 months ago

      lots of folks get off on self hatred.

      There is a Jewish woman who is openly running as a Nazi on the Republican ticket for a statewide office in MA.