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Johonny

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11. The humor of this is Citizen United destroyed the GOP

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 11, 2023, 04:40 PM

Sep 2023

The GOP political structure is gone. What's left is a collection of rich influence peddlers and/or their own niche cult of personality candidates. The two "party" conventions under Trump were closer to Idiocracy than anything the GOP put on prior to Citizen United. It will not get better. There's nothing in the system left to fix this.

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Charles Pierce: The Supreme Court Has Deformed Our Politics at Every Level [View all] Nevilledog Sep 2023 OP

Kick dalton99a Sep 2023 #1

This needs a LOT of attention. 2naSalit Sep 2023 #2

Charlie Pierce appears on the Stephanie Miller Show every Tuesday. rubbersole Sep 2023 #3

We need Charile. I hope he's around for a long, long, long time. StClone Sep 2023 #5

K&R spanone Sep 2023 #4

Whitehouse has been screaming this for years to anyone who will listen. Roberts, as I recall, Pepsidog Sep 2023 #6

And has ANYONE of significance paid ANY attention? calimary Sep 2023 #8

Sadly,I agree. Pepsidog Sep 2023 #10

Kick -- kick -- kick Hekate Sep 2023 #7

You can go back farther DownriverDem Sep 2023 #9

The humor of this is Citizen United destroyed the GOP Johonny Sep 2023 #11

That "no paywall" link led me to infinite capchas... malthaussen Sep 2023 #12

Some of us are shaking our heads wondering why Bidens' numbers are tied with tfg, maybe its 2live is 2fly Sep 2023 #13