When the majority of the party bends the knee to a person such as Trump, I’m not sure they had a soul to begin with. Most doing so certainly have no honor.
What’s your favorite Bible verse?
Dude, Reagan suffocated the soul of the GOP. And Nixon before him. Back in the Eisenhower days when the Democrats were the racist party, they had some solid things to stand for, but those people are in the ground at this point, and have been for a long, long time. McCain was arguably the last of his kind, back when you could be a decent person and still have some standing in the GOP, which is why they’ve now edited him out like Emmanuel Goldstein.
A lot of the Democrats are shit, too. But the thought leaders of the Democratic Party are, by and large, the relatively decent ones. We’ve reformed (somewhat) since Clinton. The Republicans have been digging down to new levels of hell with every new generation for roughly 50 years now, and Nixon was already psychotically bad.
This. People who think that the Republican party has been honorable in recent memory haven’t been paying attention. There have been honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain, but the party as a whole has been little more than a cabal of grifters appealing to the worst parts of us with the sole purpose of enriching themselves and punishing the “other” in sociopathic glee. Trump didn’t start this. He just pulled off the mask and made it OK to speak and act openly.
Didn’t McCain call his wife a harlot for playfully messing with his hair?
Edit: it was a trollop and the c word. I don’t know how I only remembered the mild insult
Ha - I thought the exact same thing; I just edited my thing specifically to talk about McCain. Yeah, he was the last of the old guard; already out of step (telling that woman at his rally not to attack Obama as an enemy of America). But at least in his day you could be decent and run for president as a Republican. Now they’ll throw you out of congress for trying to be a normal human person as a Republican. Maybe next year it’ll be prison.
lol gimme a fucking break. he’s doing everything y’all always wanted, just isn’t afraid to say the quiet thing out loud.
This was his speech at the DNC tonight. I saw it. This was also for a republican who lost his seat due to agreeing with the Jan 6th committee that trump should be impeached and prosecuted for inciting an attempted coup. That cost him his re-election.
He may be a republican, but he’s been anti-trump and has put his money where his mouth is, so to speak.
His speech was very fair and rousing. He’s a good orator, and he’s been criticizing trump for many years.
I’m not doubting that he said or believes these things. The point is this one guy does not define the soul of the GOP. by all means, trot him out there to sway independents, but let’s not act like the GOP was some paragon of virtue before trump came along.
Reagan started the descent. Gingrich finished the race to the bottom with stuff like the Contract with America, holding speeches in an empty house chamber, and directing R’s to never interact with Dem’s at all and always oppose anything they do even if it’d benefit R’s. Trump is just the natural consequence of that mindset.
Trump is a demon summoned by Republican cultists who were hoping for exactly this result, and we will never let you forget it
