What happened to the Republican party?

[Slyhunter]

I'm at the point where.....bring it. Let Lamaka win, let her go ahead with her food price fixing and bring on the bread lines.

It will split the nation, and I don't care anymore.

I hope those good vibes fill your stomach.

I'll be dead soon anyhow.

 

[my2¢]

12 years ago the Republicans were complaining about Obama dividing the country. So now they got on their hands a guy who hasn't managed to keep their own party united all that well. It sure is interesting.

 

[BrokeLoser]

We've gone far past "doesn't like". Partisans convince themselves that the other side is "pure evil'. They completely flip out. And then the losers work feverishly to block everything the winner tries to do. They completely forget that we're all on the same side, that we're all Americans.

The Mexicrat Party couldn’t win if they assumed the “we’re all Americans” theory.
They have to compartmentalize the citizenry or they lose.
Democrats must manufacture single issue voting blocks to placate to…
The woke white guilt purple hair faction
The hate whitey faction
The pole puffer/rug muncher faction
The hostile feminazi faction
The hate America / change America faction
The hate sovereignty faction
The hate rich people faction
The love abortion faction

 

[BrokeLoser]

12 years ago the Republicans were complaining about Obama dividing the country. So now they got on their hands a guy who hasn't managed to keep their own party united all that well. It sure is interesting.

Didn’t Trump garner more votes than any other Republican before him?
What metric are you and dblack using to decide Trump hasn’t united the Party?

 

[berg80]

The reality here is that one side is actually evil. But we have been bothsidered so much by a media scared to call it out because of accusations of bias. Democrats did try working with trump. Repubicans blocked Obama and Biden.

Spot on. The difficulty in trying to work with trump was his narrow focus on doing things that pleased his base, not things that benefitted the country.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Spot on. The difficulty in trying to work with trump was his narrow focus on doing things that pleased his base, not things that benefitted the country.

You mean like how 10 million new wetbacks and free healthcare for wetbacks benefits the country?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

It didn't use to be this way.

True – but it didn’t start with Trump; Trump is a product of what the GOP has been for at least the last 50 years.

How to fix it – defeating Trump this November would be an important first step.

But the GOP after Trump will still be an illiberal, authoritarian, reactionary, anti-immigrant nativist party dominated by fear, ignorance, and an unwarranted contempt for positive, beneficial change, diversity, and expressions of individual liberty.

 

[elektra]

But it wasn’t the Biden administration, liar!

#MAGALIES

Okay, the Biden/Kamala/Obama campaign. Zuckerburg sent a letter to congress as a big sorry. Looks like Zuckerburg sees a civil rights criminal fcc congressional investigaton coming

 

[Anathema]

It didn't use to be this way. Repubs from Eisenhower to McCain were reasonable men who sought compromise rather than confrontation. Their impulse when addressing a national problem was, "how can we fix this?" "We" meaning both Repubs and Dems. The first impulse of MAGAists is to ask, "how can we blame this on Dems and then obstruct anything they want to do to address the problem

No they weren’t. They were Liberal scum who sought peace over Righteousness. You don’t work with your enemies. Ever. No compromise.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Yet you are the increasingly minority party.

And Republicans are well aware of that, contributing to their radical extremism, illiberalism, and authoritarian desire to establish the tyranny of Republican minority rule by exploiting America’s antimajoritarian institutions – the Electoral College and Senate in particular.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Little else can explain how they have been able to remain in a virtual catatonic state with respect to his moral, legal, and ethical violations. The incident at Arlington being the most recent example in a litany of examples.

That and a massive dose of classic Republican blind partisanism, the indestructible cognitive dissonance of Republicans – like Bill Barr, critical of Trump, yet indicating he’ll vote for him in 2024.

Indeed, one shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Liz Chaney voted for Trump this year.