A comparison of parties:
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But then, without pointing it out, why would they change?
This has been part of the dem problem, GOP doesn’t change in part because dems don’t do a good job of marketing their policy, and contrasting the 2 parties. They typically think it’s enough to just ‘do good’ and it will speak for itself.
Meanwhile GOP bullfrogs spend all their time spinning reality.
Hopefully now after we’ve seen how low the GOP will go, dems will start to get this aspect of politics a little better.
I would say, grant Texas a secession. The lone state with the lone star, lone grid.
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Well turning it democrat was already within reach, this focus might help accelerate things.
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I’d pin the turning point on the tea party taking over the agenda of the party around 2009-2010. Bush was so terrible that the party had to save face by clinging to an issue they pretended to care about like the debt. Of all times you should engage fiscal stimulus, the recession seems like a good one to me. Nonetheless, railing against debts and deficits was good cover for the disillusioned mostly white republican party as shown by some of the overtly racist messaging and popularity of birthism at the time.
Once the tea party won seats they became the party of “no” and backed themselves into an ideological corner by turning bipartisanship/compromise into a dirty word. This wave took over the party as incumbents were in fear of being primaried and made for poor governance once they took the majority. If your whole platform is defined by having no policy and instead scape goating democrats, immigrants, leftists, antifa, transgender, and woke millennials then clearly white blue collar populism is the natural recourse.
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That’s actually less than I thought, more divided than I thought.
In a new Suffolk University– USA Today poll of Trump voters released on Sunday, nearly half — 46 percent to 27 percent — say they’d ditch the GOP for another if the twice impeached Trump were at the helm.
Also, over 50 percent of respondents said the GOP should be “more loyal to Trump.” And 58 percent believe the lie that the January 6th attack on the Capitol was “mostly an antifa-inspired attack that only involved a few Trump supporters.”
McConnell knows full well that insults and stunts are no substitute for planning and policy, even in today’s GOP.
For all the fanfare that the Trump-McConnell battle has received over the past two weeks, the ultimate referendum on who will guide the party won’t come for at least a year, until GOP Senate primaries begin unfolding in earnest. And McConnell’s willingness to wade into GOP primaries this cycle against Trump-backed candidates he sees as unelectable presages brutal internecine battles over control of the Senate on the Republican side.
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Clean them out.
It’s safe to say that when your party’s main political activity is stopping people from voting, you’re not a good political party. Why wouldn’t they reform themselves into a better party instead of trying to cheat? 
"The Republican legislation would undermine pillars of voting access by ending automatic voter registration, banning drop boxes for mail ballots and eliminating the broad availability of absentee voting. The bills would restrict early voting on the weekends, limiting the longstanding civic tradition of “Souls to the Polls” in which Black voters cast ballots on Sunday after church services.
Taken together, the new barriers would have an outsize impact on Black voters, who make up roughly one-third of the state’s population and vote overwhelmingly Democratic."
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Meanwhile, MAGA left us the gift that keeps on giving.
Militia Group May Be Planning to ‘Breach’ US Capitol March 4, Police Warn - Bloomberg
Law enforcement officials warned that a militia group may be plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, a day tied to conspiracy theories about March 4 being the “true inauguration day.”
How do you feel about the Dems getting the Greens removed from ballots last year?
We should be able to vote online.
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110% agree. GOP won’t go for that in a million years if they don’t have to.
Sounds like they muffed the application process. Not voter suppression.
“The court ruled in a 5-2 decision that the Green Party did not follow proper procedure for getting on the ballot, overturning a Republican judge’s decision in a lower court ruling.”
“The Green Party earlier this year swapped out Elizabeth Faye Scroggin for Howie Hawkins as its presidential candidate. But the high court ruled that it failed to properly get Scroggin on the ballot, so “subsequent efforts to substitute Hawkins were a nullity.” It ruled a similar substitution effort to get Angela Walker on the ballot as the party’s vice presidential nominee was invalid.”
“In sum, the Commonwealth Court erred in dismissing Objectors’ petition to set aside Scroggin’s nomination, and Hawkins’ substitution, as the Green Party’s candidate for President of the United States,” the court ruled, citing irregularities in the way the Green Party was supposed to file affidavits for the presidential candidate."
“That defect was fatal to Scroggin’s nomination and, therefore, to Hawkins’ substitution. Accordingly, the Secretary of the Commonwealth is directed to remove Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker from the general election ballot as the Green Party’s nominees for President and Vice President.”
The Swamp won’t go for it. It knows that cryptovoting would be a slippery slope to cutting them out of the middle altogether.
Nah, it benefits Dems. Online voting would be the end of the GOP and they know it. Snowball’s chance they’d allow that.
This should be interesting.
In a letter sent Monday afternoon to Trump attorney Alex Cannon, RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer asserted that the committee “has every right to refer to public figures as it engages in core, First Amendment-protected political speech, and it will continue to do so in pursuit of these common goals.”
The letter is a brush-back to the Trump team, which sent a March 5 request that the RNC “immediately cease and desist the unauthorized use of President Donald J. Trump’s name, image, and/or likeness in all fundraising, persuasion, and/or issue speech.”
The First Amendment argument by the RNC. What will Trump and Co’s counter-argument be?
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He doesn’t have one
He enjoys playing victim
For his loving base
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