Threatening people with loss of power and privilege, marginalizing people’s voices, based on “failure to toe the Party Line”. Demanding lockstep voting.
The GOP has become the Democrats. Soon, like the dems, the pubbies will have a cadre of seatwarmers in the legislature whose job it is to vote the Party line.
I was thinking just the other day about the difference between the Nazis and the Communists. The Communists were global socialists, and the Nazis were national socialists (hence the name nazionale socialista or however it was said in German. It seems to me that the Democrats are now our Communist party. They hate America, want to weaken it and force us to submit to the UN and other global oversight.
Republicans, on the other hand, stand for maintaining American supremacy in the world, but do not differ much from the Democrats in terms of the march towards socialism. Slower perhaps, but not much lately. They need a new name to describe their brand of socialism. The American brand of national socialism could perhaps be called "nashism" to distinguish it from Nazism, what with all the bad press and all.
Now, with that said, we need an American constitution and freedom party. Those words have been taken by minor parties that have their own issues. Maybe we can just make up a word, the way that car companies do, and go with that. "Freeper Party" is as good as any, it stands for a Free Republic. And we already have a web site. I hope Jim had the foresight to trademark "freeper" at some point in the last 15 years.