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Why Johnson fell but Trump remains his party's de facto leader ... for now
CNN ^ | 7/7/2022 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 07/08/2022 4:24:12 AM PDT by usafa92

(CNN) — Britain's Conservatives just did what America's Republicans never dared to do.

They toppled a wrecking ball right-wing populist leader who reeled from one self-created scandal to another and who was accused of flagrantly breaking the law, abusing power and building his political career on an edifice of lies.

After weeks of clinging desperately to office, Boris Johnson finally resigned as the ruling Conservative Party's leader Thursday after a rebellion by his own lawmakers. The party will elect a new leader, who, according to the customs of Britain's parliamentary system, will become prime minister. America's Republican Party, however, never turned on Donald Trump in the same way -- despite his far more ruinous offenses against democracy than Johnson's. It's not that Republicans didn't have the chance. The ex-President was impeached twice, but most GOP senators chose not to vote to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors last year -- a step that could have barred him from future federal office.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bojo; bojotheclown; borisjohnson; johnson; stephencollinson; trump
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CNN still hooeful…..
1 posted on 07/08/2022 4:24:12 AM PDT by usafa92
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To: usafa92

Boris Johnson right wing? Hardly.

He wasn’t toppled because of his ideology, either. He was toppled for his dishonesty in holding parties during COVID restrictions (dishonest and entitled behavior) and then upped the ante by lying about it initially.


2 posted on 07/08/2022 4:26:06 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: usafa92

They really have no comprehension of what’s going on around them. Just wow... small wonder their world revolves around cross dressing pedophiles and monkey-pox butt sex.


3 posted on 07/08/2022 4:26:50 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: usafa92

FU CNN!!! Stay in your own hellhole with your evil demoncrats we don’t need any advice from liberal lions that run their blue states into the ground and cause an influence of people flocking to red states like Texas Florida and NC


4 posted on 07/08/2022 4:27:40 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

*loons not lions


5 posted on 07/08/2022 4:28:43 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: usafa92

I read as far as “despite his [Trump’s] far more ruinous offenses against democracy” and realized, oh yeah, this is CNN... never mind.


6 posted on 07/08/2022 4:30:59 AM PDT by Blurp2 (...though it's tawdry and plain, it's a lovely old lane...)
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To: usafa92

If Melania was telling Trump “We are all going die from Global warming!” he would tell her “No, we are not”.

Boris Johnson, on the other hand....


7 posted on 07/08/2022 4:31:01 AM PDT by UNGN
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To: usafa92

“despite his far more ruinous offenses against democracy”
Say what you want about Trump, he always, always danced with who brung him. He chose our platform and never sold us out like others have.


8 posted on 07/08/2022 4:31:47 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: usafa92

CNN+ failed! That’s success!


9 posted on 07/08/2022 4:32:27 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: usafa92

They toppled a wrecking ball right-wing populist leader, bullsh##

He was outed because he betrayed those who wanted a conservative leader, he adopted the globalist, climate change, love fest with china, great reset mantra. This coming from a person who knows him best and a close friend


10 posted on 07/08/2022 4:32:32 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Boris Johnson is "right-wing"?

That right there is funny. Of course from the perspective of the frightened marxists at CNN, even GOP milquetoasts like Lindsey Graham must seem like Atilla the Hun to them.

11 posted on 07/08/2022 4:33:16 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,441,806 active users on Truth Social)
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To: usafa92

Because Johnson acted and governed like a liberal once he was in power


12 posted on 07/08/2022 4:33:44 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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They toppled a wrecking ball right-wing populist leader

Boris Johnson has never been “right wing” as Prime Minister.

13 posted on 07/08/2022 4:34:15 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Republican Wildcat

“Right Wing” to CNN is not wanting to Nationalizing all businesses.


14 posted on 07/08/2022 4:34:33 AM PDT by UNGN
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To: usafa92

The author above lives in a liberal bubble. He has no idea about why the republicans still support Trump and he has no idea about why Trump will be president again. Either he has no idea or is just plain lying, like most democrats do.


15 posted on 07/08/2022 4:35:03 AM PDT by adorno
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To: usafa92

“despite his far more ruinous offenses against democracy than Johnson’s.”

Don’t take this personally, but please Go F Yourself....


16 posted on 07/08/2022 4:35:53 AM PDT by nikos1121
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“Stephen Collinson”

A Rooskie loving Commie...

Xe needs to prove xe isn’t.


17 posted on 07/08/2022 4:37:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: usafa92

CNN hate to clue you clueless network in....It’s called “We the people” vs their system. Get it? Doubt it...


18 posted on 07/08/2022 4:37:23 AM PDT by OKITRUMP77
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To: SamAdams76

“Boris Johnson is ‘right-wing’?”

That’s how he campaigned. American pols like Lindsey Graham aren’t the only ones accomplished in the ol’ bait and switch.


19 posted on 07/08/2022 4:37:32 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: usafa92

Its easy. He was a successful President despite non stop friction from internal and external sources. He took the best hoaxes the left had to serve up and won. He winning the latest witch hunt. The lefts insistence on ignoring optics is certainly helping him. Hes still out there leading and promoting the GOP. And finally lots and lots of Republicans believe he was robbed...and deserves another term.


20 posted on 07/08/2022 4:38:20 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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