They don’t. Russia enthusiast and crazies took over your party.
Reminds me a lot of my Dad, who *was* a Republican and hated Trump. He ultimately just left the party and is now an independent, since he felt like the party just wasn’t at all what he thought it was supposed to be.
No. Join democrats. We should expand the party to include those seeking political asylum.
>Trump supporters, who often skew working class, have said they feel mocked by elites of both parties and see in Trump someone who has heard their anger, including over immigration. Trump critics say he has stoked anger in his base to reap political benefits and sell merchandise ranging from red MAGA hats to his new $399 gold-topped sneakers with American flag logos.
Exploiting working class anger and redirecting it at marginalized groups (usually at immigrants and minorities) is one of oldest plays in American politics, and Trump has done it very well. If the Democrats could figure how out to redirect this anger toward the greed and indifference of the wealthiest (another old play, but not as common) we could have a whole different country.
They don’t. The GQP is wholly and totally incapable of governing. Completely detached from reality. Taken by insane conspiracy theories and fascist undercurrents; the modern Republican Party has boiled down to extremist white Christian nationalism with a flair for terrorism.
They can do what they did in 2020, vote for the Dem Candidate….but this time, vote the entire ballot “D”. What they did (in TX) was vote for Biden and then all the other R…
The Republican party no longer exists, and those who lament its passing have only themselves to blame. 5 decades of stoking fear and prejudice while fleecing the public have run their course. Now what passes for the party genuflects at the whims of a want-to-be tyrant.
Why do they continue to identify as “Republicans”?
What is it about the Democratic party that they can’t accept? Are they looking at the situation logically or just clinging to a learned stigma about the label?
They could build a political home. Seriously… there isn’t a conservative party right now. The GOP, no matter what the idiots say, has no philosophical base other than “me first”.
There’s the center-right party they could vote for. They tend to have a “D” next to their names.
>”The Republican Party part of me that’s left is hoping Ronald Reagan jumps out from the grave and saves us all,” said Baeszler, a 65-year-old retiree, as he attended a rally for Trump challenger Nikki Haley on a recent sunny afternoon in Georgetown, South Carolina.
Hate to break it to you buddy but this didn’t happen in spite of Ronald Reagan. He sold out the future to lavish you in the present, and now that the future’s the present and that present is the past you are indignant to still lean on the hope that some charismatic leader will spring from out of nowhere and “save us all” from the future again.
That losing mindset is precisely what Trump took advantage of to make himself that terrible messiah.
Yeah it’s called the democratic party. Call it a temporary alliance against a greater evil. Should the Republicans actually return to a semblance of good faith small government, then great. I want more than 1 party. But until that happens the cancer of MAGA must be eliminated.
Its not like the Anti-Trump Left haven’t been warning them the whole time. A pillar of the argument has been “why are you letting Trump take your party” and the majority of the Right has said, “we want this”.
They can vote for democrats, all the way down the ticket, and let GOP politicians know that they are doing so, and why they are doing so. Let them know that this is not a one-off, but something that they will continue doing until something changes.
Who’s fault is that
Vote Democrat. Just this once. Democrats aren’t going to kill you for being Republican and you will survive. Though the Republicans might kill you for being anti-Trump.
“start your own party”
“Nvm I guess totalitarianism will do”
They’re more than welcome to vote blue.
“our doors are always open, dear… You can always come home to us.”
“…just don’t bring your creepy friends.”
~ democrats
I figured out in 2016 that it was either bend the knee to Trump or GTFO.
Now I’m wondering what I ever saw in the GOP, like looking back at an ex who was a total disaster and being like, “What was I thinking??”
I’m so tired of hearing about these anti-trump republicans. They don’t exist. *They will all vote straight party line Republican*. There isn’t a voter shed and the GOP doesn’t have a problem getting their constituents into the voting booth. They will *all* show up for trump without fail.
Nope. There is no Republican party, anymore. This is the party of MAGA.
My dad is fervently anti-Trump. Has voted for him every time because he is convinced that Biden is a socialist and Hillary was against “males in public”.
I don’t trust these people to have principles at all.
Oh, so you like free markets? Democracy? National defense? US leadership in the world? Balanced budgets? Fiscal Responsibility? Personal freedom?
Welcome to the Democratic Party. It’s the same as the Republican Party in 1980. Just with women and brown people.
They brought it on themselves. Trump was no mystery ever. Believing he was worthy of president was idiotic from the get go. Not to say we told you so but ….😂
The old Republican party is gone. It is the GQP now.
Yes, in today’s politics, an anti trump republican is known as a “moderate democrat”
I’m sure the mainline Democrats would welcome them with open arms, they’ve been trying to appeal to that demographic for decades now.
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They don’t. Russia enthusiast and crazies took over your party.
Reminds me a lot of my Dad, who *was* a Republican and hated Trump. He ultimately just left the party and is now an independent, since he felt like the party just wasn’t at all what he thought it was supposed to be.
No. Join democrats. We should expand the party to include those seeking political asylum.
>Trump supporters, who often skew working class, have said they feel mocked by elites of both parties and see in Trump someone who has heard their anger, including over immigration. Trump critics say he has stoked anger in his base to reap political benefits and sell merchandise ranging from red MAGA hats to his new $399 gold-topped sneakers with American flag logos.
Exploiting working class anger and redirecting it at marginalized groups (usually at immigrants and minorities) is one of oldest plays in American politics, and Trump has done it very well. If the Democrats could figure how out to redirect this anger toward the greed and indifference of the wealthiest (another old play, but not as common) we could have a whole different country.
They don’t. The GQP is wholly and totally incapable of governing. Completely detached from reality. Taken by insane conspiracy theories and fascist undercurrents; the modern Republican Party has boiled down to extremist white Christian nationalism with a flair for terrorism.
They can do what they did in 2020, vote for the Dem Candidate….but this time, vote the entire ballot “D”. What they did (in TX) was vote for Biden and then all the other R…
The Republican party no longer exists, and those who lament its passing have only themselves to blame. 5 decades of stoking fear and prejudice while fleecing the public have run their course. Now what passes for the party genuflects at the whims of a want-to-be tyrant.
Why do they continue to identify as “Republicans”?
What is it about the Democratic party that they can’t accept? Are they looking at the situation logically or just clinging to a learned stigma about the label?
They could build a political home. Seriously… there isn’t a conservative party right now. The GOP, no matter what the idiots say, has no philosophical base other than “me first”.
There’s the center-right party they could vote for. They tend to have a “D” next to their names.
>”The Republican Party part of me that’s left is hoping Ronald Reagan jumps out from the grave and saves us all,” said Baeszler, a 65-year-old retiree, as he attended a rally for Trump challenger Nikki Haley on a recent sunny afternoon in Georgetown, South Carolina.
Hate to break it to you buddy but this didn’t happen in spite of Ronald Reagan. He sold out the future to lavish you in the present, and now that the future’s the present and that present is the past you are indignant to still lean on the hope that some charismatic leader will spring from out of nowhere and “save us all” from the future again.
That losing mindset is precisely what Trump took advantage of to make himself that terrible messiah.
Yeah it’s called the democratic party. Call it a temporary alliance against a greater evil. Should the Republicans actually return to a semblance of good faith small government, then great. I want more than 1 party. But until that happens the cancer of MAGA must be eliminated.
Its not like the Anti-Trump Left haven’t been warning them the whole time. A pillar of the argument has been “why are you letting Trump take your party” and the majority of the Right has said, “we want this”.
They can vote for democrats, all the way down the ticket, and let GOP politicians know that they are doing so, and why they are doing so. Let them know that this is not a one-off, but something that they will continue doing until something changes.
Who’s fault is that
Vote Democrat. Just this once. Democrats aren’t going to kill you for being Republican and you will survive. Though the Republicans might kill you for being anti-Trump.
“start your own party”
“Nvm I guess totalitarianism will do”
They’re more than welcome to vote blue.
“our doors are always open, dear… You can always come home to us.”
“…just don’t bring your creepy friends.”
~ democrats
I figured out in 2016 that it was either bend the knee to Trump or GTFO.
Now I’m wondering what I ever saw in the GOP, like looking back at an ex who was a total disaster and being like, “What was I thinking??”
I’m so tired of hearing about these anti-trump republicans. They don’t exist. *They will all vote straight party line Republican*. There isn’t a voter shed and the GOP doesn’t have a problem getting their constituents into the voting booth. They will *all* show up for trump without fail.
Nope. There is no Republican party, anymore. This is the party of MAGA.
My dad is fervently anti-Trump. Has voted for him every time because he is convinced that Biden is a socialist and Hillary was against “males in public”.
I don’t trust these people to have principles at all.
Oh, so you like free markets? Democracy? National defense? US leadership in the world? Balanced budgets? Fiscal Responsibility? Personal freedom?
Welcome to the Democratic Party. It’s the same as the Republican Party in 1980. Just with women and brown people.
They brought it on themselves. Trump was no mystery ever. Believing he was worthy of president was idiotic from the get go. Not to say we told you so but ….😂
The old Republican party is gone. It is the GQP now.
Yes, in today’s politics, an anti trump republican is known as a “moderate democrat”
I’m sure the mainline Democrats would welcome them with open arms, they’ve been trying to appeal to that demographic for decades now.