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How Trump is hunting down the GOP’s leading families
politico.com ^ | 5/7/21 | David Siders

Posted on 05/07/2021 12:37:41 PM PDT by cotton1706

In the civil war between Donald Trump and the GOP’s waning establishment, no Republican has crossed the former president and come out ahead.

Yet as Rep. Liz Cheney’s likely ouster from House leadership lays bare, Trump has reserved a special fury for the scions of the GOP’s leading families in his attempt to exercise full dominion over the Republican Party.

Whether it’s the Cheneys, the Bushes or the lesser bloodlines — such as the Romneys or the Murkowskis — Trump has been relentless in his efforts to force them to bend the knee. Even Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain — who herself has never run for office — has been knocked down, censured by Trump allies who run the state Republican Party in Arizona.

It’s the clearest sign that the modern Republican Party hasn’t just broken with its traditionalist past. It’s shredding every vestige of it.

“It’s a tragedy,” said Arne Carlson, a former two-term Republican governor of Minnesota. “The problem with the revolution is they continue to get more and more extreme. Whereas Liz Cheney was on the right, she now finds herself being pushed into the middle and, ultimately, off the cliff.”

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bushcheney; davidsiders; elections; fakenews; nomorebushes; nomorecheneys; nomoreromneys; politico; pollutico; stayoutdaarbustos; stayoutdabushes
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A single individual, with the people behind him, is breaking the Ruling Oligarchy.

They've been screaming now for six straight years (since June of '15).

We knew it would take many elections to fully root out the scum.

And it's not over yet.

1 posted on 05/07/2021 12:37:41 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

That’s right...

IT AIN’T OVER!


2 posted on 05/07/2021 12:39:38 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: cotton1706

3 posted on 05/07/2021 12:40:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: cotton1706

I won’t be happy until every last republican who failed to contest the electors on Jan 6th is out of office!


4 posted on 05/07/2021 12:40:22 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: cotton1706

The GOPe must be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up.


5 posted on 05/07/2021 12:40:56 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: cotton1706

Bush League Republicans are all committed to the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
It is a prerequisite for admission to leadership in the GOP.

We do not want to become North Mexico.

They ALL have to go.

We can no longer tolerate Assistant Democrats assisting the Democrats to a permanent majority.
They are almost there.


6 posted on 05/07/2021 12:45:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cotton1706

They’re upset that someone is taking on the RINO elite. Well, too f’ing bad. The RINO elite has done nothing but enrich themselves and expand their power at the expense of those whom they CLAIM to represent. The people of this country have been utterly screwed by the chicken-$hit actions of the RINO elite in failing to fight, and actually going along with, the utterly power-hungry Dems.

Don’t ask me to feel sorry for the RINO elites...quite to the contrary, I am experiencing a schadenfreude 2nd only to the 2016 schlonging of Hitlery.


7 posted on 05/07/2021 12:46:11 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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The RINO elite has done nothing but enrich themselves and expand their power at the expense of those whom they CLAIM to represent. The people of this country have been utterly screwed by the chicken-$hit actions of the RINO elite in failing to fight, and actually going along with, the utterly power-hungry Dems.

Amen!

8 posted on 05/07/2021 12:50:04 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: cotton1706

The old phrase, “Hoisted with their own petard,” comes to mind.


9 posted on 05/07/2021 12:50:47 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: cotton1706

While Commie Joe’s minions monitor everyone else.


11 posted on 05/07/2021 12:54:46 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: cotton1706

How the Left Wing Media who hate the Cheneys want her to stay so there is no way Republcians can take back the House of Representatives


12 posted on 05/07/2021 12:54:54 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: cotton1706

” breaking the Ruling Oligarchy”

That was all our goal when we voted for him.

And really, it’s dynastic oligarchy that is our enemy.


13 posted on 05/07/2021 12:55:03 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18er that, we)
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Whereas Liz Cheney was on the right, she now finds herself being pushed into the middle and, ultimately, off the cliff.”

She wouldn't have been pushed anywhere if she hadn't been stupid and voted for impeachment. Then, she just kept digging the hole deeper by mouthing off more stupid nonsense.

14 posted on 05/07/2021 12:57:37 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: cotton1706

Any so-called Republican that takes a position against America’s working people or any person renowned for fighting for America’s working people should expect a dismal political future.


15 posted on 05/07/2021 1:00:16 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“...she now finds herself being pushed into the middle and, ultimately, off the cliff.”

BULLoney. Liz and all her ilk are better-than-you (BTY) elites, and need to be taken down a peg or two. Notice how the passive tense is used to play like she is a ‘victim’... Poor baby.

The BTY are not victims, they are snobs. The only reason they ever appear to be moderate is so they can fool you into voting for them.


16 posted on 05/07/2021 1:01:29 PM PDT by HeadOn (Love God. Lead your family. Be a man.)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
It’s hard to believe that people can continue long to be as stupid as today’s media needs them to be.

You only need a third of all people to be stupid. They are being led by the one third of people that have the agenda. The third third is us. We have to sway the middle third which is really hard because we don’t rely on emotion to make our points.

17 posted on 05/07/2021 1:03:26 PM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: cotton1706

“I can’t spare this man–he fights.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/ulysses-s-grant/


18 posted on 05/07/2021 1:04:26 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Whereas Liz Cheney was on the right, she now finds herself being pushed into the middle and, ultimately, off the cliff.”

The war whore took a swing at our hero and shot a few arrows.

She’s done...


19 posted on 05/07/2021 1:05:50 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: cotton1706

Michael: [to Carlo] Only don’t tell me you’re innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.


20 posted on 05/07/2021 1:09:00 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Lift the rim. You’re not that good a shot.)
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