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The Republican Party Killed Itself
American Thinker ^ | 01/14/2021 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 01/14/2021 7:04:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The Republican Party killed itself. The particular poison it swallowed is the hatred it harbors for its own voters. Sooner or later, all that hatred was going to burn it up. When Republican lawmakers turned their backs on Republican voters protesting for free and fair elections and endorsed election fraud by ignoring it, they blew up any remaining illusion that the Red-Blue divide in D.C. is real.

Republican voters struggled for over a decade to give the Republican Party all the power it needed to fight for the Constitution and American liberty and against the quickening assault of totalitarian state control. Republican voters repeatedly urged Republican lawmakers to stomp out Big Tech's censorship and strangling of free speech before it was too late. Republicans in office have done nothing.

When voters turn a blind eye to their suspicions that only a UniParty exists in D.C., actively support Republican lawmakers, and find themselves inevitably betrayed by those same lawmakers nonetheless, the sting is particularly fierce. From the point of view of a Trump-supporter, the Republican Party has wasted a tremendous opportunity. The "stupid party" looks as if it's achieved peak stupidity. But from the point of view of D.C. Republicans who have worked to thwart President Trump's agenda for four years, it is a certainty that the only stupid Republicans they see are their own voters.

It didn't have to be this way. Republicans in Washington could right now be in the majority with a strong president in the White House. Instead, they spent years using Trump-supporters when their votes were needed and giving little in return. It was a betrayal that leaves deep scars.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: gop; politicalsuicide; republicanparty
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Did Republicans finally pay the price with their voters in Georgia? With turnout in pro-Trump areas diminished, that seems the case, and after most Senate Republicans spent the last two months surrendering the presidency, rather than fighting for it, who could blame Georgia voters for choosing not to care? On the one hand, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock seem like shoe-ins to supercharge Obama's socialist legacy.
1 posted on 01/14/2021 7:04:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s Trump’s party now. Bhwahahahahahaa!!!


2 posted on 01/14/2021 7:07:03 AM PST by Thilly Thailor
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP is dead to me. I can only speak for me.


3 posted on 01/14/2021 7:07:14 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The fun part about Warnock is that he’s not just stupid, he’s a worm brain nut case. Makes John Lewis look statesmanlike.

He’s gonna spend the next 6 years being the Crackpot of the Week in the national news.

And he’s also dumb enough to be bribable, which means the FIBBIEs will go after him like bloodhounds. Can you Al-See Hastings?


4 posted on 01/14/2021 7:08:05 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind

It was time for it to die. Good riddance.


5 posted on 01/14/2021 7:09:31 AM PST by ChuckHam
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To: SeekAndFind
Amen to all that. Great post.

6 posted on 01/14/2021 7:09:32 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And it’s not just losing their own electorate, by not fighting election fraud they’ve ensured their future irrelevance.

It’s amazing to me that they’d look the other way and allow fraud to happen, just because they believe looking the other way is saving face, politically. It’s amazing stupidity.


7 posted on 01/14/2021 7:10:25 AM PST by AnglePark
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m officially no longer a Republican. I changed my registration this week to unaffiliated.


8 posted on 01/14/2021 7:10:38 AM PST by sissyjane
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To: brownsfan

The GOP is dead to me too.


9 posted on 01/14/2021 7:11:52 AM PST by MercyFlush (Donald Trump is my President and Free Republic is my social media!)
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To: Regulator

2 years. His was part of the special election stemming from the retirement of Johnny Isakson (Loeffler was a special temporary appointment - never elected). That senate seat is up again in 2022.


10 posted on 01/14/2021 7:11:56 AM PST by Codeflier (Covid-19 taught me: Two types of "conservatives", frightened safety seekers vs. freedom lovers)
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP is dead. I can’t wait for the creation of a MAGA party.


11 posted on 01/14/2021 7:12:14 AM PST by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: Regulator

...which means the FIBBIEs will go after him like bloodhounds.


Only if he’s a Republican.


12 posted on 01/14/2021 7:12:26 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s win the White House or die for them. Now they have no ammo left


13 posted on 01/14/2021 7:13:04 AM PST by stanne
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To: Regulator
And he’s also dumb enough to be bribable, which means the FIBBIEs will go after him like bloodhounds.

After all this time you really still have no clue as to whom the FBI reports? They'll go after warlock right after they bust hunter and slo' joe in 3...2...never.

14 posted on 01/14/2021 7:13:06 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Thilly Thailor

I agree that it is Trumps should he choose to take it. But that would require the GOP purge out the GOPe and to be honest, I dont think that will happen.

30 million registered GOP voters
72 million Trump voters said that they would vote for Trump again.

And those two numbers are EXACTLY why the GOPe are scared of Trump and are conspiring with the DEMs to push him out of the party.


15 posted on 01/14/2021 7:13:46 AM PST by taxcontrol
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16 posted on 01/14/2021 7:15:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: sissyjane

I did that the day after Obama was reelected.


17 posted on 01/14/2021 7:15:40 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“who could blame Georgia voters for choosing not to care”

...I do! This was a last ditch chance to save our Republic and those 2 blew it listening to Rove etc. All those 2 had to do was support Trump and call for a special session. Georgians didn’t teach anybody a lesson. They displayed their own stupidity in “thinking” they’ll make up for it in 2022.


18 posted on 01/14/2021 7:16:16 AM PST by albie
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The gop committed suicide decades ago. People are merely fighting over the crumbs of the country now.

One cannot expect to stay relevant when you grant amnesty for millions of illegals, and do nothing to prevent the flow of such forces for years. Throw in the offshoring of industries and the cult of more immigration. A slow, televised suicide, cheered on by people who had no concern for the republic.

19 posted on 01/14/2021 7:16:27 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: SeekAndFind

Truth -

Disdain for their own voters & cowardice.


20 posted on 01/14/2021 7:16:33 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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