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Home Front: Politix
The Republican circular firing squad continues unabated
2021-02-03
[American Thinker] Many people say that America is in a cold civil war, and I won't disagree. However, conservative America is also fighting a civil war. On the one side are the 75—80 million (or more) Americans who support Trump's agenda and Trump himself. On the other side are a handful of political operatives who really dislike Trump-supporters.

Yesterday, news broke big about the NeverTrump Lincoln Project, which is now coming face-to-face with the fact that its co-founder, who was a Republican more than 16 years ago, is a sexual predator with a reputation stretching back over thirty years. The Lincoln Project's deep, open hostility to Trump-supporters is an obvious example of the civil war on the right.

Another example is emerging with the establishment's war on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). She's a QAnon-supporter with some wacky theories, at least one of which borders on anti-Semitic. I'm not a fan. Having said that, she's a stalwart defender of traditional American values, including that tattered document known as the Constitution. She shows no signs of acting on her loony, vaguely anti-Semitic ideas or of being hostile to Israel. We need her vote in Congress.

However, when the Democrats pointed to her and said, "Oooh, icky," Republicans fell over themselves to disavow her. The most recent example is China Mitch McConnell, who called her a "cancer for the Republican Party."

No, Greene is not a cancer. She's an eccentric, and less toxic than Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Occasional-Cortex, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, and Rashida Tlaib (except when, amazingly, Tlaib is standing up for civil liberties). Greene is also less toxic than Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Barbara Lee, and all the other extremists on the left. All of them have shown themselves over the years to be some combination of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-American.

And when I say "anti-American," I don't just mean that they're hostile to the country they purportedly represent; they're also hostile to you, the American people. Trump's presidency revealed that.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3   Clean out some of the deadwood

Primary them in 2022 instead of driving them out now and turning the Democrats’ bare majority into an overwhelming one. That’s how we got Obamacare the first time. This time they want to go all the way to Medicare for all, and if they have the votes they’ll make sure they get it.

Purity guarantees no power.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-03 11:41  

#2  I'm all in favor of the circular firing squad. Clean out some of the deadwood and let new growth have a chance.
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-02-03 07:55  

#1  GOPe types spend so much time on pointing out "that's not who we are" that there's no time left over to decide just who and what they actually are, other than go along to get along political prostitutes.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-02-03 07:52  

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