“The GOP, which we will not abandon because in a two-party system you can’t really start a new party, has been dragged kicking and screaming our way. Oh, not completely, not even close. But it is moving our way over time.”
Sorry, not buying into this. The GOP is part of the apparatus referred to as the Deep State. Maybe some of the newbies don’t know it yet, but they are in the very process of being sucked into it, if they haven’t already experienced it. I think it happens at some point in time, when a major stand on principle is called for and you come to realize that siding with right, siding with the people is just too great a price you are willing to pay. Yesterday, we saw more of this happen: Tom Cotton, Rand Paul, the other senators/representatives who had to vociferously denounce the “attack on our democracy” much more loudly than to try to put events into its proper context: “Americans are seeing the overthrow of our republic; that’s how serious this election fraud is to them.”
You got that right. There is no Republican rep or senator worth the price of the ammo to shoot them. They are all part and parcel of the two headed snake. If I saw one of them drowning I’d throw them a rock.