'Their ignorance is willful': WaPo analyst says enough with the MAGA voter pity(www.rawstory.com)

This is something that needs to be said about all Republicans. Their party’s been indulging in fascist politics since Goldwater ran on opposing the civil rights act six decades ago, but we keep pretending there are decent people with the intellectual capacity to serve in office who identify as Republicans anyway for some reason. The uncomfortable but simple fact is that there are only idiot Republicans who don’t realize their party’s continued existence is a threat to the country and evil Republicans who do, and neither should be in any kind of government office ever.

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some_designer_dude@lemmy.world

3 points

2 months ago

Y’all fought and killed a bunch of each other but, after defeating them, both sides just returned to the dinner table like things were normal again… Despite one of them having tried and failed to destroy it all.

How were they not just deplatformed entirely? Money, I guess?

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MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world

62 points

2 months ago

Their last chance was 2020. I could theoretically understand their vote in 2016. If you still support Trump it’s because you agree with what he stands for, and are therefore a trash human being. It’s not because “the Democrats aren’t good either”, it’s because you’re an authoritarian boot licker. End of story.

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magnetosphere@fedia.io

12 points

2 months ago

Yup. I can imagine a lot of uninformed voters supporting Trump back then simply because he had an R next to his name. He certainly can’t count on that this time.

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DeadWorld@lemm.ee

9 points

2 months ago

I support the abolition of the Republican party as a whole

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