Republican Trump challengers warn of totalitarian drift in party

[Eugene]

Related: We are Trump’s Republican challengers. Canceling GOP primaries is a critical mistake. (Washington Post)

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Source: The Guardian

Republican Trump challengers warn of totalitarian drift in party

• Sanford, Walsh and Weld write for Washington Post
• Four states cancel nominating contests to give Trump clear run

Martin Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Sat 14 Sep 2019 15.19 BST
First published on Sat 14 Sep 2019 14.49 BST

The Republican party has taken “a wrong turn” under Donald Trump, according to three GOP challengers to the president, and is heading down the road to totalitarianism as states cancel primaries in an attempt to give Trump an unimpeded path to the nomination in 2020.

In a joint opinion column for the Washington Post, Mark Sanford, Joe Walsh and Bill Weld noted that “the Democratic primary challengers are still engaged in a heated competition of debates, caucuses and primaries to give their voters in every corner of our country a chance to select the best nominee”.

They asked: “Do Republicans really want to be the party with a nominating process that more resembles Russia or China than our American tradition?”

Sanford, a former South Carolina congressman and governor, and Walsh, a Tea Party congressman from Illinois turned talk radio host, recently joined Weld, a former governor of Massachusetts, in seeking to offer a Republican alternative to Trump.

Pending any legal challenges, they will not be able to do so in Arizona, Nevada, Kansas and South Carolina, which have cancelled their nominating contests.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/14/2020-trump-challengers-say-republican-party-has-taken-a-wrong-turn

[lunatica]

1. Drift? Really?!

It’s more like a giant mudslide killing and burying everything in its path! And these idiots are no improvement over Trump either. Not that they’ll ever even get close.

[spanone]

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👍🏼

[moondust]

2. If you believe the polls,

what remains of the Republican Party seems pretty captivated by the prospect of a fascist dictatorship.

[Roland99]

3. Only what we've been warning about for decades

[Wounded Bear]

4. So much this...

It's not like this strain of Republicanism just crawled out from under a rock.

[Roland99]

7. Yeah. They crawled out years ago. But they still go back home to hide from the light

[lunasun]

6. Ha you scum all smirked when republicans would not let Obama replace on the SCOTUS suck it