Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America’s Elections

Probublica ^ | September 2,2021 | by Isaac Arnsdorf, Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Anjeanette Damon

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Reminiscent of when the Republicans left the Whig party over their refusal to reject slavery.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Election “Deniers.” Yup, kids, the moonbat Stalinazi traitors have now elevated the rhetoric for those questioning the most corrupt election in the history of our Republic to equaling those who deny the Holocaust.

The utter banality of leftist evil.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

The Borg from Star Trek, assimilate or die.

[Starboard]

“It will be easier to take over the GOP.”

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With all due respect to both of you, most people who want to reform the GOP don’t have any understanding of what the party is really all about, who controls it, and what its real purpose is. Like many things, the GOP has a facade which hides it’s real agenda and inner workings.

People close to me have worked inside several GOP organizations. Trust me, the party is a club and we’re not in it — and never will be. The party apparatus exists to serve the big donors and special interests with longstanding ties to the GOP. The party pretends to be conservative, but it’s not and never will be. If it was it would have worked tirelessly to reduce the size of government and the power it exercises over us. But it never does. To the contrary, is willfully enables the expansion of government.

To be sure, the party has resisted all efforts to reform it. Reagan couldn’t do and neither could Trump. The one thing the GOP is good at is fighting off any and all efforts to change it. The party’s culture and defenders see to it, and they control all the resources.

Years from now the GOP will still be the feckless, unprincipled and corrupt party it is today. Some things never change.

[SauronOfMordor]

You hit on a good point: political parties are really businesses, and it’s all about what the donors (the real customers) want.

This will be true of any third party any conservatives try to create. Over time, any organization will be captured by the people who give money AND can withhold it if their desires are not met. This is what happened to the Boy Scouts when their corporate donors demanded they be more gay-friendly.

[Starboard]

I admit to never quite thinking in terms of the parties being like businesses, as you so aptly put it. It is profoundly true.

I tend to focus on their appeasement, enabling and caving to what liberals want. However, the other more important view may well be their insidious and servile collaboration with moneyed interests.

It is indeed all about doing whatever the donors want — so that the money keeps flowing in. They give lip service to us but real service to the big donors. Of course they’re happy to take our money too but they definitely don’t want our principles and our conservative values.

There is another aspect to the GOP (same probably applies to the DNC) that is not fully appreciated by many of its supporters. At the national level the RNC and related organizations exist to manage the politicians that come to DC. Again, trust me on this, the indoctrination/conversion process starts immediately upon their arrival in the Swamp and continues throughout their careers. Politicians quickly learn about the importance of party resources to their longevity. In other words, they learn “to get along, go along.”

As you might imagine, the GOP has become pretty good at doing this after so many decades of refining their indoctrination tactics. The fact that so many new Republican prospects quickly contract Potomac Fever, and effectively become representatives of DC instead of their home states, is a testament of sorts to the success of the GOP’s “on-boarding system” and their ability to keep people on the reservation.