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It is too late now. Since 2016, the media has focused on Donald Trump. How he took over a pure and pristine political party of good American conservatives. The good people of this Party, the stories goes will return to their senses and reject this evil pretender to the thrown. Just wait. The pivot is coming.
Nothing.
After these many years. the December 18 Quinnipiac poll shows that over 84% of all Republicans approve of Donald Trump. [link:https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/|
The Republican Party is evil. They are historically corrupt, historically racist and historically anti-democratic. How would things have been different if Ted Cruz had been elected?
Even the most Democratic leaning talk shows are filled with former Republican operatives who predict the Everett Dirksen Republicans of old will soon return to power when the Party rejects Trump. Return to what? These are the same people who built this monster giving hope that somehow, someway the Republican Party will return to something it never was?
The First Amendment is not just a right. It imposes a responsibility for the press to protect us by reporting the truth. Where are the voices? Where is the accountability? How can a Democracy with a free press have a majority of the members of one of it two political parties support racism, sedition, treason and the elimination of our Democracy and not be challenged by our press.
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MutantAndProud
(855 posts)No doubt negotiated by the rest of the authoritarian collectors who are going to be very uncomfortable after todays black book list comes out
2naSalit
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Initech
(100,390 posts)They've found someone who amplifies their hatred and brings out the worst in people. They must be stopped at all costs!
TSExile
(3,160 posts)...just how much they hate women, minorities and anyone whose religion (or lack thereof) and sexuality they disagree with. They do this while bellowing about how fine Christians they are!!
Wounded Bear
(59,056 posts)Dating back to Nixon. They have been shedding any pretense of holding onto democratic values year by year.