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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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To: Red Badger

Be vewy vewy quiet. I’m hunting rinos


61 posted on 05/07/2021 5:17:57 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3957208/posts

about Liz pulling all Secretaries of Defense to go against Trump


62 posted on 05/07/2021 5:31:30 PM PDT by shalom aleichem (Deep State gives a pass to murderer of Ashli Babbitt.)
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To: Night Hides Not

That doesn’t tell me anything.

This isn’t a football game to the other side. It’s how they live, and live with themselves.

Experience tells me that an artfully constructed non-reality indicates someone who cannot live with reality, for whatever reason.


63 posted on 05/08/2021 6:29:06 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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