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========== Josh Hawley's ideology is Josh Hawley. placed the health of families, communities and the nation first That's not going to fly with the many individual freedom sects of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. frontal assault on the free-market fundamentalism That's not going to fly with most GOP major donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/30/dont-dismiss-josh-hawley/ He's an insurrectionist smarter than Trump - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-hawley-fundraising-capitol-riot_n_6079e00ce4b058846f242f90 That makes him more dangerous, if he can trick the donors into helping him trick the voters. He does presumably understand that as a GOP candidate his job is to protect minority rule. As a Trumpist candidate his job is to protect Trump. As a third-party candidate - his job is to insure Trumpist victory by siphoning Democratic voters. #PS1gop https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/30/dont-dismiss-josh-hawley/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-30 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Josh Hawley's ideology is Josh Hawley. topic gop wordrate 0 words 115 epoch Lifetime ID 1570549763289537 impress 3 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/30/2021 15:12" reach 3 title "Opinion | Don’t dismiss Josh Hawley" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570549763289537 ========== GOP has correctly identified the most persecuted group in America - old rich white straight male rural evangelical Christians! For evidence - at least as far as old rich white straight males - look no further than the list of American billionaires, a persecuted group if ever there was one. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/09/supreme-court-crusade/ Many of America's Founders were old rich white straight male rural Christians, so they surely must have written Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion by accident. Nowadays America's job creator billionaire class recognize a useful single-issue constituency when they see one. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title GOP has correctly identified the most persecuted group in topic gop wordrate 0 words 96 epoch Lifetime ID 1556952994649214 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/10/2021 08:12" title "Opinion | The Supreme Court is on a religious crusade" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1556952994649214 ========== Is Pence a lost cause? Too Trumpy for anti-Trumpists, not Trumpy enough for Trumpists, Pence is cultivating donors anyway - in New Hampshire! Only one reason for a national politician to go to New Hampshire or Iowa! Not vicious enough to fend off Cruz, Hawley, DeSantis, et al, perhaps Pence is hoping they'll knock each other out of contention while he stands back and stands by. https://apnews.com/article/mike-pence-new-hampshire-election-midterms-trump-5177af3b3090defc022368d77d1ea0c5 #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-09 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Is Pence a lost cause? topic gop wordrate 0 words 67 epoch Lifetime ID 1556211494723364 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/09/2021 06:12" title "Pence navigates Trump's shadow during New Hampshire visit | AP News" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1556211494723364 ========== The new GOP - government as reality-TV entertainment! The more controversy and publicity the better - more time on Fox, more grass-roots funds raised. Even better if some of the foot soldiers get inspired to take a few real shots at Democrats. That will be one of Trump's greatest contributions - restoring the Dixiecrat greatness of Preston Brooks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks The major donors don't mind because the show takes the focus off GOP's actual legislative intent if a majority - protect and expand minority rule, or lack of intent if a minority - simply oppose all Democratic initiatives. https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-lauren-boebert-congress-d570aa1ca74c727f59e29abc42d7e6dc #PS1gop ===== impact 10 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-06 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title The new GOP - government as reality-TV entertainment! topic gop wordrate 0 words 97 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1554007131610467 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/06/2021 00:12" sharesimpress 1 title "Turning outrage into power: How far right is changing GOP | AP News" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1554007131610467 ========== Wherever Republicans are in charge, they are fully committed to erecting one-party-rule systems https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/01/we-may-have-already-missed-our-last-best-chance-bolster-american-democracy/ That's just their Dixiecrat heritage. Next step is to find subtle ways to keep undesirables from voting in GOP primaries, just like the good old days of the Dixiecrat South. Or maybe unsubtle ways, also as in the past. Well the IMPORTANT thing is that Manchin and Sinema will protect the vital institution of filibuster - another good old southern tradition - making the most of their 15 months of fame. #PS1gop ===== impact 9 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-02 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Wherever Republicans are in charge, they are fully topic gop wordrate 0 words 85 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1551771975167316 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/02/2021 12:12" sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | We may have already missed our last, best chance to bolster American democracy" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551771975167316 ========== Why regional federalism is becoming more appealing https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html voters want to hand over Congress to a party that largely treats the Jan. 6 insurrectionists as heroes Not a MAJORITY of voters - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Gerrymandering alone is enough to tip the balance And once GOP regains power, it’s hard to imagine them ever consenting to the peaceful transfer of power again https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/opinion/american-democracy.html So is this like Germany in 1931? 1932? or 1933? All the GOP's Franz von Papens imagine they can maintain control after a real Trumpist takes over the Trump base - Donald Trump is a rank amateur and the real threat is his successor. #PS1gop ===== impact 10 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-11-28 ratio 10 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Why regional federalism is becoming more appealing topic gop wordrate 0 words 103 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1549446195399894 impress 12 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/28/2021 20:11" reach 10 title "Opinion | The Problem of Political Despair" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1549446195399894 ========== Sounds like Christie will run against Trump in the 2024 primaries if he can line up enough donors. Otherwise 2028. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-jersey-campaigns-barack-obama-election-2020-da8c2189595f06eb8023166efa5dfb01 But like Pence, he is too soiled by close contact with Trump to attract anti-Trumpists, too disloyal to Trump to attract Trumpists, too much of a self-serving opportunist to attract principled traditional conservatives. But he could run as an independent or on a third party in the general election to insure Trump's victory. #PS1gop ===== impact 15 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-11-27 ratio 4 react 2 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Sounds like Christie will run against Trump in the 2024 topic gop wordrate 0 words 74 engaged 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1548873785457135 impress 8 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/27/2021 23:11" reach 8 sharesimpress 1 title "Chris Christie aims to shape future for GOP and for himself | AP News" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1548873785457135 ========== The horror! Bennett is lying and it is disgusting that he’d attempt to raise money off these falsehoods https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-national-committee-dismisses-call-for-ronna-mcdaniel-to-resign-as-chairwoman-over-outreach-to-lgbtq-voters/2021/11/23/a4ef6f4e-4c96-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html A Republican attempting to raise money off falsehoods? Where would he ever get such an idea? Anyway the GOP platform for 2024 clearly states Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society just in case any LGBTQ voters are confused. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The horror! topic gop wordrate 0 words 71 epoch Lifetime ID 1547437308934116 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/25/2021 22:11" reach 11 title "Republican National Committee dismisses call for Ronna McDaniel to resign as chairwoman over outreach to LGBTQ voters" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547437308934116 ========== It's the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party now. Congratulations to Nixon and Strom Thurmond for conceiving a strategy for taking Southern rural aristocrat values national. They'll purge the last traditional conservatives from the GOP in no time. It's remarkable - now there are more traditional conservatives among Democratic senators and representatives than among GOP! Most of the GOP have abandoned the faith of their fathers in order to worship the golden calf of personality cult - or at least pretend to. How much longer for the holdouts? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/16/wyoming-republicans-disavow-liz-cheney/ #PS1gop ===== impact 9 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-25 ratio 11 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title It's the Trumpist Dixiecrat Party now. Congratulations topic gop wordrate 0 words 86 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1547212055623308 impress 11 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/25/2021 13:11" reach 11 title "Wyoming GOP says it will no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a Republican after she criticized Trump" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547212055623308 ========== Steve Scalise in 2017 and 2021 - what a difference four years make. https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/martin-schram-a-must-see-video-for-house-gop-leaders/ar-AAQTqpM Concerning assassins, Schram wonders what really motivated those warped minds to commit their godawful crimes In most cases, they simply wanted their 15 minutes of fame and were willing to give their lives for it. Nobody would have remembered any of them otherwise. See it dramatized - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins_(musical) Or check out youtube assassins Sondheim. And what kind of person measures everything by celebrity and media ratings? For starters, a Trumpist kind of person - one who considers a House seat to be a ticket to appear on Fox rather than an opportunity to do something selfless for the country. Trump was a failure as a businessman until he settled into reality TV - which is all about celebrity and nothing to do with reality. #PS1gop https://msn.com/en-us/news/politics/martin-schram-a-must-see-video-for-house-gop-leaders/ar-AAQTqpM ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-24 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Steve Scalise in 2017 and 2021 - what a difference four topic gop wordrate 0 words 137 epoch Lifetime ID 1546719442339236 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/24/2021 19:11" reach 8 title "Martin Schram: A must-see video for House GOP leaders" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1546719442339236 ========== GOP has no more clue than Democrats about what to do about the kind of inflation we have now - reducing Federal social spending won't help. If we didn't have inflation, we might well be enjoying a recession like 2009 - for years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/15/inflation-recovery-stimulus/ If reducing Federal spending would help, then so would reducing GOP's 2017 billionaire tax relief. But tax cuts for the rich - their major donors - has always been a pillar of what GOP does for its donors. Democrats have collectively been somewhat better but not perfect - they need major donors too. That won't stop GOP from campaigning against Democrats for inflation and tax cuts for the rich. But so what? Biden carried out Trump's unrealized plans for Afghanistan and infrastructure, better than Trump ever could, and GOP blames Biden for that too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/21/dismissing-inflation-while-cutting-taxes-wealthy-is-not-winning-strategy-democrats/ It's not about facts or logic, only tribal partisanship - any lie, cheat or steal to protect minority rule. #PS1gop ===== impact 16 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-11-22 ratio 11 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title GOP has no more clue than Democrats about what to do about topic gop wordrate 0 words 157 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1545465589131288 impress 12 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/22/2021 21:11" reach 11 title "Opinion | Dismissing inflation while cutting taxes for the wealthy is not a winning strategy for Democrats" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1545465589131288 ========== Traditional conservatives still in GOP need to accept reality - the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is a cult of personality controlled by Trump with no use for traditional conservatives, and with no path back to sanity any time soon. Traditional conservatives will be completely purged from GOP long before that happens. The violent lunatic fringe has the Complete and Total Endorsement of Trump - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-boebert-gosar-gaetz/2021/11/20/c77dc78a-47dd-11ec-973c-be864f938c72_story.html He is far more concerned in exacting revenge for disloyalty than winning control of Congress in 2022, though he supposes that one leads to the other. both interviews only cemented the case that, even if Trump doesn’t run, his hold on the Republican Party will remain as tight as ever https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/21/republican-voters-dont-like-heresy-church-trump/ If both Christie and Cruz agree on that, who can question it? moving politics away from bread-and-butter economic concerns is the best way for Republicans to hold their supporters together https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/21/gop-bets-resentment-over-problem-solving/ Actual policy is very divisive for GOP voters. So don't talk about that in public; save that for private discussions with major donors. Stick to talking about culture wars in public where the Federal government has relatively little influence. Where are traditional conservatives going to go? They won't have a future in the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. Running as Libertarians, a new third party, or as independents is usually just a gift to Trump, by siphoning support from the only plausible anti-Trumpists - the Democrats. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-21 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Traditional conservatives still in GOP need to accept topic gop wordrate 0 words 229 epoch Lifetime ID 1544805275863986 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/21/2021 22:11" reach 10 title "Opinion | The GOP bets on resentment over problem solving" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1544805275863986 ========== Major donors had conscience pangs after Jan 6 but have gotten over them. Many donate to both sides anyway, to maintain access. They donate through PACs, to avoid publicity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-fundraising-insurrection-january6-nrsc/2021/11/09/1e260f2a-3753-11ec-9a5d-93a89c74e76d_story.html Giving to a Republican does not mean you are supporting Donald Trump ??? Trump and his allies are making sure that donating to a Republican means supporting Trump! #PS1gop ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-09 ratio 7 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Major donors had conscience pangs after Jan 6 but have topic gop wordrate 0 words 58 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1536490616695452 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/09/2021 21:11" reach 7 sharesimpress 1 title "Donors threatened to shun the GOP after Jan. 6. Now, Republicans are outraising Democrats." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1536490616695452 ========== Idealistic youngsters go to Congress to do something good - and then they get distracted and pulled into the mechanics of staying in Congress - and eventually all they think about is what used to be called dialing for dollars. Dial phones are obsolete but not the calls. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/08/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment-insurrection-senate/ The devil subtly whispers in their ears that in order to do all the good things they intend, they first have to stay in office, and this is how you stay in office - by cultivating major donors for yourself and your allies. Thus McConnell morphed from liberal to reactionary. That's bad enough, but then Trump out-deviled the devil - nothing subtle about Trump - and nothing less than ever-increasing unsubtle public enthusiasm and loyalty suffices - and in the end it gets you nothing. McConnell enabled Trump - two self-serving opportunists each looking out for #1 - but now Trump is out to destroy McConnell no matter what it costs the GOP. McConnell is not self-destructive and not defenseless - he probably has a larger steadier donor stream than Trump, because of his long-time efforts to install a reactionary judiciary that will favor his donors' interests. Trump probably thinks he had something to do with that, but he was just the messenger boy between Leonard Leo and McConnell. Clash of the titans! Who's in charge of the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP - Donald Trump or McConnell's donors? All the countless would-be Trump successors will probably be publicly pretending to support Trump while privately hoping McConnell survives and thrives. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-08 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Idealistic youngsters go to Congress to do something good - topic gop wordrate 0 words 258 epoch Lifetime ID 1535502003460980 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/08/2021 08:11" reach 9 title "w.washingtonpost.c" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1535502003460980 ========== Bipartisanship is dead! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/06/fix-gop-infrastructure-defections/ https://www.newsweek.com/must-eliminated-trump-republicans-vow-oust-gop-members-who-voted-infrastructure-1646725 Trump already spoke - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-trashes-dollar12-billion-infrastructure-bill-backed-by-biden/ar-AAN3B83 Pure Trumpists plan to purge the GOP representatives who voted for the infrastructure bill, even though it was drafted by a bipartisan Senate committee. What this means - there is no traditional conservative party, and traditional conservatives are not welcome in the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP cult of personality. You're either 100% behind Trump or you are against him. He doesn't do shades of gray and doesn't tolerate disloyalty. Traditional conservatives wanting to have any political relevance have to face up to caucusing with the Democrats until the cult of personality wears out its welcome. Manchin and Sinema can't use the excuse of looking for bipartisan solutions any more. There aren't any. #PS1gop https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/06/fix-gop-infrastructure-defections/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Bipartisanship is dead! topic gop wordrate 0 words 120 epoch Lifetime ID 1534529336891580 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/06/2021 22:11" reach 12 title "Must be eliminated: Trump Republicans vow to oust GOP members who voted for infrastructure" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1534529336891580 ========== It's not mostly crazies or cowards. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/republicans-vaccines.html It's ambitious politicians who CHOOSE to protect their funding and careers by defending minority rule more unflinchingly than ever before, and agreeing to say and do whatever is necessary to that end. It's not craziness or cowardice, but moral turpitude, far worse than either. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-28 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title It's not mostly crazies or cowards. topic gop wordrate 0 words 51 epoch Lifetime ID 1528420390835808 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/28/2021 21:10" reach 10 title "Opinion | Cowards, Not Crazies, Are Destroying America" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528420390835808 ========== Traditional conservatives need to realize that the Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party has left them behind and they have no place to go. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/advice-gop-trump-critics-democracy-lovers-leave-party/ Now it's evident that there never were that many traditional conservatives after all - lots of the voters for their candidates were really looking for a personality cult leader who would validate ignorance, prejudice, corruption, and authoritarianism. And now they have their cult leader and no further need of traditional conservatives. And the cult leader and his base serve the purpose of sustaining minority rule better than the traditional conservatives ever did, so the big donors don't seem to mind any more. So much the better when he's replaced by one of his many abler and bolder would-be successors. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-07 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Traditional conservatives need to realize that the Trumpist topic gop wordrate 0 words 122 epoch Lifetime ID 1513257462352101 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/07/2021 11:10" reach 8 title "Opinion | Advice to Trump critics and democracy lovers in the GOP: Leave the party" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1513257462352101 ========== Of course the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party is a personality cult. That's what the major donors decided they really wanted as the best defense strategy for minority rule. There is no conservative ideology, just maintaining power by whatever means works. Crenshawism would turn out to be very little different from Trumpism, except Crenshaw might be smarter and more vigorous. And thus more dangerous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/post-trump-republican-party-dan-crenshaw/2021/09/13/cca47a78-14c6-11ec-b976-f4a43b740aeb_story.html #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-09-15 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Of course the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat Republican Party topic gop wordrate 0 words 65 epoch Lifetime ID 1498496327161548 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/15/2021 14:09" reach 7 title "What if Republicans had a party and Trump wasn’t there?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1498496327161548 ========== Kevin McCarthy - a consummate adapter. In record time, he has adapted completely to Trumpism, encompassing violent insurrectionists in a major political party, hoping to lead it soon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/02/kevin-mccarthy-embraces-trumpism-republican-demagogue/ Think of it as Osama bin Laden's greatest victory! As for traditional conservatives looking for a party of ideas rather than a cult of personality - they will have to look elsewhere. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative #PS1gop https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/02/kevin-mccarthy-embraces-trumpism-republican-demagogue/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-09-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Kevin McCarthy - a consummate adapter. In record time, topic gop wordrate 0 words 61 epoch Lifetime ID 1492382454439602 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/06/2021 15:09" reach 10 title "Opinion | Kevin McCarthy emerges as a demagogue in his own right" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1492382454439602 ========== America is in crisis Indeed it is - our main crisis is we're not the majority An honest Republican! Who'd have thought? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/politics/house-republicans-outrage.html The Republicans need to seed a sense of instability, overreach and fear minutes after Representative Michael McCaul warned of Moscow's aggressive cyber attacks and a looming Russian stranglehold over Europe's power supply, Mr. Scalise said, 'the crisis is not in Europe, it's at America's southern border' Russians massing to attack over the Rio Grande? Shades of the Zimmermann Telegram! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram Making up crises to divide the masses is a pillar of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1gop https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/politics/house-republicans-outrage.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-06-17 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title America is in crisis topic gop wordrate 0 words 95 epoch Lifetime ID 1437109789966869 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/17/2021 19:06" title "For Republicans, ‘Crisis’ Is the Message as the Outrage Machine Ramps Up" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1437109789966869 ========== It's wasted effort to ask sensible Republicans to come to their senses. Even if Trump goes, Trumpists and Trumpism remain, and it seems the donors have decided that reality-TV personality cults create enough distraction and diversion that it's easy to quietly enact the legislation they want and stifle the legislation they don't. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Rural bias in the constitution, unlimited dark money, supportive reactionary judiciary, and loyal blocs of single-issue voters, Trump devotees, and conspiracy theorists, make permanent Republican minority rule possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/06/gop-superspreaders-trumps-contagion/ #PS1gop ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-06-06 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title It's wasted effort to ask sensible Republicans to come topic gop wordrate 0 words 81 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1429930460684802 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/06/2021 21:06" sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | The GOP superspreaders of Trump’s contagion" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1429930460684802 ========== we gave too much allegiance to one passing political figure and weren't loyal enough to our principles https://apnews.com/article/michael-pence-donald-trump-government-and-politics-569cdd527b1525a490f8a4d43937b3a3 Where's Ryan been spending his vacation? The Trumpist modern Dixiecrat-Republican Party is 100% loyal to its one principle/principal - Trump. It's a cult of personality, not a conservative ideology. Traditional conservatives who used to be Republicans are now on the outside looking in. They'll find more principles among the Democrats. #PS1gop ===== comments 1 impact 34 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2021-05-27 ratio 0 react 5 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 title we gave too much allegiance to one passing political figure topic gop wordrate 0 words 68 commentsimpress 1 engaged 5 epoch Lifetime ID 1423524401325408 likeimpress 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/27/2021 19:05" sharesimpress 2 title "Ex-Speaker Ryan to GOP: Reject Trump, '2nd-rate imitations'" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1423524401325408 ========== Good news for moral lepers everywhere! You can go to Yale Law and clerk for the Supreme Court without compromising your ambitions and non-values! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/11/senator-josh-hawley/ Many of the people who populate these movements are not radical right-wing pro-assault weapons freaks Hawley is out to replace Trump, without admitting it of course. Will Trump catch on in time? Who'd have thought we'd be rooting for Trump? But that's par for the course in the Trumpist Dixiecrat-Republican Party. Roy Cohn and Strom Thurmond would be so proud. He's much smarter and bolder than Trump. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-05-11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Good news for moral lepers everywhere! You can go to Yale topic gop wordrate 0 words 92 epoch Lifetime ID 1412699645741217 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/11/2021 21:05" title "Grievance, rebellion and burnt bridges: Tracing Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1412699645741217 ========== The party, it became more apparent Tuesday, does not have room for both. I wouldn't want to be a member of a group that punished someone for following their conscience. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-government-and-politics-39442b6fc9e6eafb24ba1c55e8ec9797 https://apnews.com/article/politics-election-2020-government-and-politics-4b57608e163597af9d5f33fa2dbecec1 What are the dozen or so Republicans in Congress going to do if they refuse to kneel before the altar of Trump's lies? Trump owns the biggest part of the GOP base. He is trying to own the biggest part of GOP fundraising. Few major GOP donors seem inclined to stop him. Those dozen or so traditional Republicans in Congress, who believe in conservative ideology, in facts and logic, and don't believe in cult of personality, are going to have to jeopardize their careers for what they do believe. To remain relevant in Congress, they should collectively announce themselves as Independents caucusing with the Democrats until such time as the GOP returns to its conservative Enlightenment ideals of facts and logic, preaching good news to the oppressed rather than the oppressors, and renouncing racism and violent overthrow of the Constitution. Or until a viable new conservative party materializes https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative based on something other than protecting the political and economic power of minority rule by any means fair or foul. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html The Democrats should welcome these dozen into their caucus, help fund their primary campaigns, and not run Democrats against them if they survive their next primaries. Nobody expects these Republicans to abandon traditional conservative principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility, and on most routine legislation they will vote with the Trumpist Republicans. But the few times that they don't will be the critical times for preserving American democracy against its foes. These traditional Republicans would then lose their committee seats as Republicans, to be replaced by the worst Trumpists McCarthy can find in the House, and perhaps not much better in the Senate. So the Democrats should offer them committee seats where they would do the most good on the critical common issues. Democrats should realize that Trump will be completely consumed with defeating these and other GOP traitors to his cause in their 2022 primaries, even if it cost the GOP a majority in Congress. There is no other path to salvation for traditional conservative principles but letting Trump damage the GOP more than its major donors can tolerate, so that they decide it's no longer worthwhile to fund cult of personality. Losing their chance at gaining control of Congress might be the jolt they need. #PS1gop https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-government-and-politics-39442b6fc9e6eafb24ba1c55e8ec9797 ===== comments 1 impact 122 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-05-05 ratio 0 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title The party, it became more apparent Tuesday, does not have topic gop wordrate 0 words 407 commentsimpress 1 engaged 3 epoch Lifetime ID 1408449849499530 impress 1 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/05/2021 11:05" reach 1 sharesimpress 1 title "Liz Cheney’s GOP post in peril as Trump endorses replacement" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1408449849499530 ========== Poor Tim Scott. It seems that the price of a national spotlight was that he had to say that America is not a racist country - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/29/tim-scott-racist-card/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/29/tim-scotts-weak-rebuttal-shows-gop-badly-defensive/ https://apnews.com/article/scott-republican-response-Biden-8f8b4a3adab6329447e778684a8bd508 And then he offered evidence that it is. An odd stance for a politician mainly known for championing police reform - of practices mostly practiced in a racist way. https://www.vox.com/2021/5/2/22416155/tim-scott-optimistic-police-reform-senate https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tim-scott-comments-race/2021/04/29/4b666c1a-a8ff-11eb-8c1a-56f0cb4ff3b5_story.html It recalls a Newsweek article from the summer of 1964. It was an interview with a man who the reporter described as the president of a very exclusive group, Negroes for Goldwater. Maybe Tim Scott should have held out for describing America as a country IN RECOVERY from the virus of racism. The first step is to admit there's a problem - why else reform police? Anyway Americans know all about recovery from viruses. It's not a smooth process but subject to waves. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/opinion/america-racism.html The initial infection was the introduction of SLAVERY in 1619, a fact that Dixiecrat-Republicans would like erased from history. It was finally forced to retreat by the civil rights amendments 13-15. But it came surging back in a second wave after the corrupt bargain of 1877. The Northern Republicans had pivoted from being a radical party of liberation and democracy to the party of defending privilege, and they were losing interest in fighting the virus. So SEGREGATION prevailed in the South for over 70 years. The second wave was forced to retreat by Truman's integration of the armed forces, by the Supreme Court in Brown v Board, and by Congress with the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the last two being Lyndon Johnson's great contribution. But a certain segment of the Republican voter, donor, and ideology bases noted as early as 1951 that the Southern Dixiecrat single-issue voters could be very useful for defending a party of privilege, https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html and in the 1968, Nixon's team turned precept into practice with the Southern Strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy As Dixiecrats, led by Strom Thurmond, became Republicans, the former Republicans struggled to maintain control of the party's direction, thinking that they were using the Dixiecrats and not vice-versa. But there were stirring of the third wave when Newt Gingrich popularized unrelenting opposition to Democratic and democratic ideas. The third wave broke when Obama was overwhelmingly elected - a black president was unacceptable to all the explicit and closet racists, Republicans and Democrats. The Tea Party movement epitomized the third wave, going beyond unrelenting but somewhat factual opposition to outrage fantasy opposition, fueled by friendly reactionary media who knew a big profit opportunity when they saw it. Donald Trump didn't know much about any academic discipline like economics or law or history or science, but he had a sure salesman's instinct for manipulating an audience's base emotions to further his goals. And so he was and still is the crest of the third wave of the racism virus and intends to continue in that role forever. He has no problem with the patriots that trashed the Capitol and American democracy, waving Confederate flags. The crest of this wave is defined by SUPPRESSION of Democratic voters by any means available, based on Trump's fantasies about a stolen election. And Tim Scott is, for the most part, a faithful Trump supporter. As all Republicans with future political ambitions have realized, to survive you have to a least pretend to be a Trump supporter and echo his lies. https://apnews.com/article/scott-republican-response-Biden-8f8b4a3adab6329447e778684a8bd508 That's the deal he has made. He opposed impeachment even after Trump's supporters waved Confederate flags in the Capitol. So racism is embedded in the Trumpist modern Dixiecrat-Republican Party. It will remain embedded as long as the racist elements of its coalition remain essential components - in most places the GOP can't win without them. So GOP leaders solemnly intone against racism and violence in abstract generality but they are only able to name specific persons and organizations on the left. So the far right knows that they don't really mean them. GOP leaders will continue to pick at the racist wound as long as it excites their base and pays off at the polls to defend minority rule. Only a concerted effort by major GOP donors could change that - and it doesn't seem to be happening. Every major GOP leader professes 100% loyalty to Trump and his lies; by this sign we know that racism is not hurting their fund-raising. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-05-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Poor Tim Scott. It seems that the price of a national topic gop wordrate 0 words 727 epoch Lifetime ID 1407156632962185 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/03/2021 10:05" title "GOP's Sen. Scott suggests Dems use race as political weapon" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1407156632962185 ========== Delusional Reagan Republicans My hope is that we rally around a set of principles and ideas and policies, not a specific person. Didn't you read the 2020 GOP platform? What are the philosophies we can all agree on? None, actually. Cult of personality is not about fixed philosophies, but a fixed personality. If Trump disappears tomorrow, Trumpism will remain and the surviving Trumpists will fight to claim his mantle. https://apnews.com/article/paul-ryan-michael-pence-election-2020-government-and-politics-a26bbff0f5feceec0a57cb167ef1f985 Trump's in charge now of the GOP voters and state and local machinery. The only remedy is to get the major GOP donors to act against Trump by funding anti-Trumpists. They had their chance in January, but it appears that enough of them have come to agree that cult of personality is a more effective means to minority rule than principles and ideas and policies. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Trump ripped off the fig leaves of ideology and threw them away. He doesn't know much about principles and ideas and policies, but he's a reality-TV star and master salesman who knows how to keep the GOP voter base stirred up, and he is working to bypass the GOP donors that don't fall in line. #PS1gop https://apnews.com/article/paul-ryan-michael-pence-election-2020-government-and-politics-a26bbff0f5feceec0a57cb167ef1f985 ===== comments 1 impact 19 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-05-01 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Delusional Reagan Republicans topic gop wordrate 0 words 190 commentsimpress 1 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1406159289728586 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/01/2021 23:05" title "Paul Ryan: Trump debate will fade as new candidates emerge" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1406159289728586 ========== A test of character - FAILED with flaming colors! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/us/politics/mccarthy-trump.html It's bad enough to be stupid and ignorant and repeat lies. How much worse to KNOW BETTER but behave the same, all for political ambition. Why Kevin, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for Speaker of the House? Just ask Ryan or Boehner. But the major GOP donors like McCarthy, and that's all that's important, right? #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-04-25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title A test of character - FAILED with flaming colors! topic gop wordrate 0 words 74 epoch Lifetime ID 1402227216788460 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/25/2021 22:04" title "Kevin McCarthy, Four Months After Jan. 6, Still on Defensive Over Trump" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1402227216788460 ========== True Texas Project and Ted Cruz - two more reasons to stay away from Texas! The Capitol rioters did nothing wrong! Greg Abbott is too liberal for them! They think Biden is a communist! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/ted-cruz-maintains-ties-to-right-wing-group-despite-its-extremist-messaging/2021/04/23/64387376-8e58-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html We've got to accept that to grow the Republican Party, we can't be using rhetoric that most people find offensive GOP officials that accept that are unclear on the concept - which is to shrink the opposition, not grow the GOP. Offensive rhetoric is the BEST way to grow the zeal of the Dixiecrat-Republican voters they already have. At least the Trumpist ones. Get them excited enough and they'll suppress the opposition all on their own, as at the Capitol. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1399739950370520 They better get with the program! Regional federalism is looking better all the time - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1gop https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/ted-cruz-maintains-ties-to-right-wing-group-despite-its-extremist-messaging/2021/04/23/64387376-8e58-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-04-25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title True Texas Project and Ted Cruz - two more reasons to stay topic gop wordrate 0 words 130 epoch Lifetime ID 1401897140154801 impress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/25/2021 09:04" reach 1 title "Ted Cruz maintains ties to right-wing group despite its extremist messaging" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1401897140154801 ========== How will the ruling class maintain its minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html It certainly can't tell the truth - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1376797479331434 It used to depend on conservative ideology, but that started to fray with Goldwater and was done for good with Trump. Now there's a good argument that ideology and policy aren't enough any more - fantasy outrage reality-TV media and candidates combined with cult of personality is the best way to distract the masses and get them to vote against their own interests. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses Trump led the way, but who's stepping up to follow? https://apnews.com/article/politics-government-and-politics-f99f90d003a5a3ce3fe087b798208043 Unfortunately Trump has set up a combination of personality cult and fantasy outrage media exposure and campaign contributions that he controls. And he won't say what he's going to use it for. He won't commit to running or not in 2024 - and this is on purpose to deprive would-be successors of oxygen. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-michael-pence-elections-coronavirus-pandemic-mike-pompeo-68ec57715adf39f1229213e5d5bd3fa3 Trump's personal goal for 2022 is to defeat all the GOP elected officials who failed to completely support him in 2020. This probably means keeping Congress under Democratic control, since Democrats will probably want to help Trump fund the Dixiecrat-Republican primary campaigns of the Roy Moores and Don Blankenships that Trump dredges up to run against his GOP enemies. Then after the purge is complete, Trump will announce his candidacy for 2024. Trump's goals do not coincide with those of the traditional major GOP (mostly dark) donors, for whom McConnell is the front money man. Losing Congress for two more years would give the Democrats even more chances to pass legislation that GOP voters like. That legislation would not be friendly to the billionaire ruling class donors. So those donors have a collective choice to make on strategy. At what point do they move away from Trump while pretending not to? They need to fund GOP primary candidates who can win in 2022 general elections, whether or not they fully supported Trump in 2020. That's why Trump and McConnell can't put their differences aside. The differences aren't minor points to squabble over. The difference is between Trump's goal of personal aggrandizement and the ruling class goal of permanently maintaining political and economic power. https://apnews.com/article/gop-leaders-diverge-trump-3eb9635a76bdb26613030eb3772dd23c Trump, and his Gaetz and Greene followers, don't care about the long game - après moi, le déluge! Can the ruling class somehow turn that energy toward its ends of long-term power? How comfortable would all those major donors feel if the Anglo-Saxon America First Caucus ends up running the Dixiecrat-Republican Party? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/20/what-anglo-saxon-traditions-controversy-says-about-our-current-moment/ #PS1gop https://apnews.com/article/gop-leaders-diverge-trump-3eb9635a76bdb26613030eb3772dd23c ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-04-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title How will the ruling class maintain its minority rule? topic gop wordrate 0 words 408 epoch Lifetime ID 1399739950370520 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/22/2021 13:04" title "GOP leaders diverge on Trump, putting party in limbo" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1399739950370520 ========== Amazing disgrace! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/us/politics/trump-fund-raising.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/us/politics/republicans-donations-trump-defector.html And not a hint of shame. #PS1gop ===== comments 1 impact 1 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-04-08 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Amazing disgrace! topic gop wordrate 0 words 9 commentsimpress 1 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1390765757934606 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/08/2021 17:04" title "G.O.P. Group Warns of ‘Defector’ List if Donors Uncheck Recurring Box" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1390765757934606 ========== Credo for a modern Republican politician - one that can be sworn to on a stack of holy books with a completely straight face! "I promise to faithfully defend and enhance the political and economic power of the ruling class. I support lowering taxes to benefit the ruling class. I support deregulating to benefit the ruling class. I support gerrrymandering and voter suppression to protect the political power of the ruling class. I oppose any regulation of dark campaign money, to protect the political power of the ruling class. I oppose any Federal minimum wage legislation or other legislation about working conditions that might affect my anonymous donors' interests. I oppose any firearms legislation that might affect my anonymous donors' interests. I oppose any immigration reform that cuts off a supply of readily-exploitable illegal immigrants. I support confirming reactionary judges to protect the political and economic gains of the ruling class. I promise to consistently lie about my and the ruling classes' motivations and goals by pretending that my actions support working and middle class people. I promise to zealously conceal the source of my campaign funds and my personal financial interests in legislation. I promise to wholeheartedly worship in Cult of Personality to conceal the actual motivations of the ruling class. I promise to actively support any and all fantastic myths that divide the masses against each other and conceal the actual motivations of the ruling class." Those are promises that GOP politicians can and will keep! Unfortunately they don't resonate with GOP voters, even in a Potemkin democracy. So those politicians have to talk about other things, which are not true or not relevant, whether antifa in the Capitol or Dr Seuss. #PS1gop ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-03-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Credo for a modern Republican politician - one that can topic gop wordrate 0 words 285 ID 1376797479331434 impress 27 likeuimpress 20 likeuusers 20 oimpress 27 oreach 21 posted "03/18/2021 03:08:44 PM" reach 21 type Status URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1376797479331434 ========== Republican voters are evenly divided between those who think the rioters went too far and those who think the rioters did not go far enough. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-riot-republicans-trump-conspiracy-theories/2021/01/11/f50e2ce6-5376-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html Likewise the GOP leadership is evenly divided between the "gamers" who want to maximize power within the existing system and the "breakers" who want to tear it down and start over. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html The Whigs were thus so fundamentally divided over slavery that they dissolved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)#Collapse,_1853%E2%80%931856 Just as compromise was no longer possible over slavery, compromise is not possible between defending the Constitution and attacking the Constitution. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/politics/republican-party-trump.html It is not possible to devise a platform that encompasses both, which is why GOP turned into a cult of personality instead of ideas. What possible equivalent of this Democratic message proposal could anybody credibly propose for the whole GOP? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html Either the GOP divides into two independent and somewhat antagonistic parts, or the country does, just as it did before. If that comes to pass, may it be peaceful! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html == https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-riot-republicans-trump-conspiracy-theories/2021/01/11/f50e2ce6-5376-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html #PS1gop ===== impact 16 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-01-11 ratio 15 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Republican voters are evenly divided between those who topic gop wordrate 0 words 160 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 ID 1333673223643860 impress 18 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 13 likeuusers 13 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 18 oreach 15 posted "01/11/2021 01:56:14 PM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 15 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1333673223643860