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========== The decisive issue in 2022 and 2024 - The division in the country is no longer between the traditional conservative Republican and liberal Democratic parties, but between the Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality party and the anti-Trumpist rule of law party. Traditional conservatives who still think of themselves as Republicans should avoid making the Franz von Papen mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen They must understand that Trump's rage against them is even greater than his rage against Democrats, and any dirty election tricks his minions can engineer against Democrats in the general election, will first be used twice as hard against anti-Trumpists in the GOP primaries. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-officials-pressure-campaign/2021/12/22/8a0b0788-5d26-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html And Trumpism will not end with Trump; he has numerous would-be successors competing for media attention. So Trumpism might be a threat to American constitutional democracy for years or decades instead of months. It's time for anybody who truly embraces the rule of law and the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders to stand up and be counted - and not among the Trumpists. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-officials-pressure-campaign/2021/12/22/8a0b0788-5d26-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The decisive issue in 2022 and 2024 - topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 166 epoch Lifetime ID 1565240750487105 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/22/2021 16:12" title "Inside the nonstop pressure campaign by Trump allies to get election officials to revisit the 2020 vote" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565240750487105 ========== Democrats' secret weapon! Trump spends his time fighting Republicans rather than Democrats and plotting his revenge against the 10 Republican House members who voted for his second impeachment, the seven Republican senators who voted to convict him and the 13 House Republicans who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill. McConnell won’t release an agenda before the midterms. He’s worried that specific proposals are nothing but fodder for Democratic attacks. That's right! Keeping the REAL agenda secret is essential to minority rule. But who need an agenda, real or imaginary? Republican candidates allow their Democratic opponents to define them negatively — and then, take office in January 2023 with no idea what to do. They assume they will win next year without doing anything of significance. They know exactly what to do - get on Fox as often as possible to praise Trump! Was there anything else? Traditional conservatives still cling - like a drowning man to wreckage - to their fantasy that the GOP is a traditional conservative party instead of a Trumpist Dixiecrat personality cult. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/opinion/trump-republicans-2022-midterms.html Democrats just need to keep hammering on the message that the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is the party of personality cult, class warfare, violent overthrow of the Constitution - and pleading the fifth amendment. #PS1trumpism ===== comments 1 impact 21 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-19 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Democrats' secret weapon! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 210 commentsimpress 1 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1562999570711223 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/19/2021 06:12" title "Opinion | Will Trump Ruin a Red Wave in 2022?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1562999570711223 ========== Is regional federalism the only way out? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, - in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, - in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, - in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. -- Edmund Burke Compare - https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-minnesota-presidential-elections-capitol-siege-elections-8d9e92a27a90511bf8f3f7f9540d44c2 Trumpists, and those who pull their strings by controlling their finances with dark money, have revolted against the Constitution and the Enlightenment ideals of its authors, rejecting 1 rational inquiry and belief in an objective reality, in favor of feelings 2 rule of law, in favor of rule of men, or better ONE man 3 equality of all people before the law and before the Creator, in favor of a hereditary nobility class In later words, they reject government of the people, by the people, for the people. They believe the people unfit to govern themselves, and take every step possible to make them that way and keep them that way. And they reject non-violence as a means to their ends. Just how close are we to another civil war? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/how-civil-wars-start-barbara-walter-research/ The military establishment is trying not to be caught flat-footed in 2024 as they were in 2020 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/eaton-taguba-anderson-generals-military/ #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/how-civil-wars-start-barbara-walter-research/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Is regional federalism the only way out? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 234 epoch Lifetime ID 1562369507440896 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/18/2021 07:12" title "Opinion | ‘We are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe,’ new study says" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1562369507440896 ========== The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies 1619 was indeed the founding date of Southern feudal hereditary aristocracy based on slavery, then segregation, and now suppression. Read about the compromises of 1820 and 1850, the KKK and Plessy v Ferguson, Woodrow Wilson segregating Civil Service. It wasn't just a few bad people, it was foundational for a whole society. Abernathy recognizes this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/theres-lot-conservatives-embrace-critical-race-theory-question-is-what-we-should-do-with-it/ But Abernathy repeats the mistakes of many traditional conservatives in thinking that Trumpist dogma is intellectual and can be proved right or wrong. That's utterly irrelevant. The dogma is intended to bypass the intellect and go straight to the adrenal glands. Just because Trump calls himself a conservative doesn't mean he is one. He's a personality cult, which works the same way from the far right to the far left. And he's a personality cult in service, probably unaware, of that same Southern feudal hereditary aristocracy, now spread throughout rural America. This is what was taught and not taught to 7th graders in Virginia in the 1960's - https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/slavery-history-virginia-textbook/2020/07/31/d8571eda-d1f0-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html It's very hard to find a copy now - https://www.amazon.com/Virginia-government-Francis-Butler-Simkins/dp/B0007DM2PQ #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/theres-lot-conservatives-embrace-critical-race-theory-question-is-what-we-should-do-with-it/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-13 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 205 epoch Lifetime ID 1559214247756422 impress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/13/2021 19:12" reach 1 title "Opinion | There’s a lot for conservatives to embrace in critical race theory. The question is what we should do with it." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1559214247756422 ========== If you look at your paper money, all the men pictured were Masons or indicated a desire to become Masons, except Jefferson - who associated with Masons all his life and was a brilliant expositor of Masonic ideals. Masons have an ideal of masculinity - https://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-ideals-of-freemason.html Nowadays Trumpists have a different ideal - If toxic masculinity is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/08/al-gore-was-manly-josh-hawley-not-so-much/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-11 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title If you look at your paper money, all the men pictured topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 62 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1557853021225878 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/11/2021 18:12" sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | Al Gore was manly. Josh Hawley, not so much." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1557853021225878 ========== Trump owns the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, to the chagrin of his would-be successors, who have to pretend to love him, and the even greater chagrin of traditional conservatives, who now have no home until they recognize that the choice in 2022 and 2024 is pro-Trump or anti-Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/06/trump-comments-undermining-democracy/ It seemed that most of the traditional conservatives were willing to abandon Trump on Jan 7, but they must have have gotten different marching orders from their donors, some of whom also seemed to back off from Trump, but most of whom apparently reconsidered quickly. Perhaps they decided that Trump would help elect a minority-rule-defending Congress in 2022 but would be incompetent again in 2024 and wouldn't get in their way - electing Trump would block somebody more dangerous for four more years. But his incompetence and malice toward those he considers disloyal might jeopardize the GOP majority in 2022 or pack it with idiots bad enough to get Democrats back in 2024. Subordinating his own personal desires to the best interests of a team is not in his DNA. So as insurance, major donors seem to have gotten fully onboard rigging future elections by gerrymandering, voter suppression, and enabling state legislatures to overturn elections wherever they can. That way GOP can still win even if Trump gets in the way. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trump owns the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, to the chagrin of topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 219 epoch Lifetime ID 1554508094893704 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/06/2021 17:12" title "Analysis | Worry about Trump continuing to undermine democracy, not his abuse of Mark Milley" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1554508094893704 ========== Give Trump credit for proving for once and for all that traditional conservatism was never a mass movement. Trump correctly perceived that most of those who voted for traditional conservative legislators out of habit were really just making the best of it until their REAL messiah appeared. Their advent is over and they expect Trump to be installed as president in 2025 if not sooner. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/03/gops-vaccine-shutdown-gambit-what-it-says-about-whos-charge/ Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, and the rest are sure THEY are the embodiment of the Trump base, and the sooner the weak sisters are removed, the better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-shes-gop-base-not-fringe-well-see-2022/ By now all traditional conservatives should understand that they are not welcome in the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP cult of personality. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-kevin-mccarthy/index.html By now all surviving Trumpists - like McCarthy - who are soft on GOP non-Trumpists - are not really welcome either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boebert-mace-islamophobia/2021/12/02/092f8eae-52b8-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html McCarthy has let his desire to become speaker inhibit Trump's vengeance on the disloyal. So Trump is looking for a more loyal and vengeful Speaker. Even better, what if Trump ran for Congress in 2022 in some safe district and demanded to be elected Speaker, so he could succeed Biden and Harris after they were impeached and convicted for the high crime of opposing Trump? Wouldn't that vengeance feel good! And poor Kevin would have debased himself for nothing. But Trump enjoys watching people debase themselves for nothing, in the hope - often in vain - of some fleeting favor. Just ask Mitt Romney! Maybe Trump would let Kevin be majority leader. But even better - Trump could be elected Speaker without ever running for the House! The Constitution only says that The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and does NOT say that the Speaker must be a Representative. The President of the Senate is not a Senator, after all. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Give Trump credit for proving for once and for all that topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 298 epoch Lifetime ID 1552537591757421 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/03/2021 16:12" title "Marjorie Taylor Greene lays out demands for GOP House speaker vote if Republicans retake majority in 2022" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552537591757421 ========== A message from the leader of the original Republican Party to the Dixiecrats who have taken it over in our lifetime - Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/second-annual-message-9 Delivered 159 years ago today. But, following Dear Leader Trump, the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP gives no heed to observing precedents from the past or setting them for the future. Give Trump credit for proving for once and for all that traditional conservatism was never a mass movement. Trump correctly perceived that most of those who voted for traditional conservative legislators out of habit were really just making the best of it until their REAL messiah appeared. Their advent is over and they expect Trump to be installed as president in 2025 if not sooner. And as for the opinion of the latest generation? Today's Trumpists and Trump enablers will all be dead by then, so why would they care? #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-01 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title A message from the leader of the original Republican Party topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 194 epoch Lifetime ID 1551320938545753 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/01/2021 20:12" title "Second Annual Message | The American Presidency Project" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551320938545753 ========== Having election deniers run elections is like having arsonists take over the fire department Of course! That's the whole idea! Loyal Trumpists will never lose another election! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-allies-election-oversight/2021/11/28/3933b3ce-4227-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html Traditional conservative Henry Barbour - I don’t hear people in Mississippi talking about whether the election was or wasn’t stolen Trump will call him a RINO if he isn't out there ACTIVELY convincing people that the election was stolen. Democrats are COUNTING on Trump and his enablers to push the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP ever further into the past, purging every last bit of traditional conservatism from his personality cult. Which prominent Republicans are publicly opposed? #PS1trumpism ===== impact 10 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-29 ratio 11 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Having election deniers run elections is like having topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 103 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1550008325343681 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/29/2021 18:11" reach 11 sharesimpress 1 title "Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across the country, spurring fears about future vote challenges" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1550008325343681 ========== In the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, there are lawmakers, strategist and donors who are very comfortable having no agenda whatsoever. Among the party’s voters, activists and media personalities, meanwhile, there remains a clear appetite for Donald Trump in full — nourished by the very America-in-2021 desire for politics to be high-stakes TV entertainment rather than boring attempts to cobble together governing majorities. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/opinion/republicans-trump.html No agenda except opposing the Democrats - that's good enough for preserving minority rule. Politics as reality-TV is a good reinforcement, keeping the masses focused on everything except what matters. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-28 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title In the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, there are lawmakers, topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 92 epoch Lifetime ID 1549364762074704 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/28/2021 17:11" reach 9 title "Opinion | Republicans Have a Golden Opportunity. They Will Probably Blow It." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1549364762074704 ========== Trumpism at its finest - performing for Fox instead of the nation. Greene voted against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack But the Congressional Gold Medal - Churchill, the Dalai Lama, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa... and Kyle Rittenhouse? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-rittenhouse-congressional-gold-medal/2021/11/24/c09980d2-4d49-11ec-a1b9-9f12bd39487a_story.html Even Gaetz doesn't like it. Unless Trump says it's OK. As for Rittenhouse - that's the future he's chosen - to be a poster boy/stage prop for ambitious reactionaries like Greene, Gaetz, Trump, and Tucker Carlson, who will drop him like a hot potato if he ever becomes inconvenient. But it's not as if Rittenhouse has a lot of other promising career paths to choose from. Who'd hire him outside the reactionary right Trumpist Dixiecrats? #PS1trumpism ===== impact 26 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-25 ratio 5 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Trumpism at its finest - performing for Fox instead of topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 129 audclicks 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1547114978966349 impress 10 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/25/2021 09:11" reach 10 title "Rep. Greene introduces bill to award Congress’s highest honor to Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547114978966349 ========== Traditional conservative George Will identifies Josh Hawley as a progressive, somewhat in the mold of Theodore Roosevelt. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/progressives-have-republican-soulmate-senate-his-name-is-josh-hawley/ It's meant as an insult, but it's wide of the mark. Hawley would definitely find a place in National Socialism, but his main ideology is self-serving opportunism - proving him a spiritual heir of Donald Trump more than anybody else, which Hawley will deny if he ever dares to take on Trump directly. Listening to Hawley talk populist is like listening to a white progressive Upper West Sider in the 1970s try to talk jive. The words are there, but he’s trying so hard it sounds ridiculous. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/ #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/progressives-have-republican-soulmate-senate-his-name-is-josh-hawley/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-19 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Traditional conservative George Will identifies Josh topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 105 epoch Lifetime ID 1543218982689282 impress 5 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/19/2021 15:11" reach 5 title "Opinion | Progressives have a Republican soulmate in the Senate. His name is Josh Hawley." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543218982689282 ========== Preston Brooks would be so proud of Gosar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks When legislators espouse violence against each other, GOP legislators boldly - look the other way. Except only two, apt to be expelled from GOP soon. https://apnews.com/article/technology-entertainment-marjorie-taylor-greene-censures-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-854fd412b7a1049c8fb9a83fe2c56b8f Gosar compared himself to Hamilton, but he must have meant Aaron Burr. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-11-17 ratio 11 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Preston Brooks would be so proud of Gosar - topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 47 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1541940716150442 impress 11 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/17/2021 17:11" reach 11 title "House censures Rep. Gosar for violent video in rare rebuke" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1541940716150442 ========== Unclear on the concept of personality cult! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/15/trump-aide-taylor-swift-white-house-warning-fired/ “I’m allowed to listen to whatever music I want” - WRONG! TRUMP is allowed to listen to whatever music he wants. YOU are allowed to listen to whatever music HE wants. McEntee was making a list and checking it twice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/newly-disclosed-memo-reveals-trumps-plot-turn-military-into-his-personal-goon-squad/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-15 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Unclear on the concept of personality cult! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 48 epoch Lifetime ID 1540324219645425 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/15/2021 07:11" reach 9 title "w.washingtonpost.c" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1540324219645425 ========== Trump supporters understand there really is no time for internal squabbling or hurt feelings Really? Trump hardly has time for anything BUT his hurt feelings and desire for revenge. As Trump goes, so goes his base. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governors-race.html But Youngkin really is a perfect Trumpist - worth $400 million - probably more than Trump - and perfectly willing to pretend to be just like Trump voters and perfectly willing to say one thing and do another. An ideal defender of minority rule! #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-29 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trump supporters understand there really is no time for topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 81 epoch Lifetime ID 1528858134125367 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/29/2021 10:10" reach 5 title "Glenn Youngkin Was a Traditional Republican. Then He Became a Culture Warrior." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528858134125367 ========== No point reciting facts to a Trumpist! Only feelings matter. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/08/memo-to-gov-noem-trash-california-after-south-dakota-grows-up/ Noem is only interested in capturing the feelings of as many Trumpist voters as possible for her presidential bid. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/us/politics/kristi-noem-south-dakota-republicans.html https://www.facebook.com/KristiNoemforPresident/ Californians who want to sample South Dakota life without masks can try a summer in Bakersfield (represented by Trumpist Kevin McCarthy) and a winter in Alturas (represented by Trumpist Doug LaMalfa). And as delta progresses, available ICU beds will probably be nearer from those places than from anywhere in the Dakotas. For the local equivalent of Silicon Valley - there's the South Dakota School of Mines. And the commute's easier! But neither Santa Cruz nor Doheny are within a day's drive from anywhere in the Dakotas. And South Dakota has fires too - https://wildlandfire.sd.gov/history.aspx On the whole, it's like lutefisk - pretty unappetizing if you didn't grow up with it. But Noem, by her personal example, makes a pretty good argument for regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1trumpism https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/08/memo-to-gov-noem-trash-california-after-south-dakota-grows-up/ ===== impact 15 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-07-11 ratio 9 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title No point reciting facts to a Trumpist! Only feelings topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 154 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 ID 1453323981678783 impress 9 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 8 likeuusers 8 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 9 oreach 9 posted "07/11/2021 02:19:33 PM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 9 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1453323981678783 ========== Trump will run again - he wants to, and his sycophants know that and will tell him what he wants to hear, that he'll win. Apparently the major GOP donors are OK with that - hence McConnell's change of tune since Jan 7. From their point of view, an incompetent and likely senescent Trump is preferable to his abler and bolder would-be successors, who might actually attempt revolutionary changes. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/opinion/republican-party-2022.html The times to draw the line were in 2015 and 2019. Instead, GOP leaders just got in line. Any independent commission empowered to examine under oath, subject to penalties for perjury, Trump, Pence, and their staffs, and Hawley, Cruz, and the rest of the enablers, would find enough to convict or disable much of the GOP congressional delegation and quite a few state officials, and perhaps would take down the passive as well as the active enablers in swing districts. So it won't happen on a bipartisan vote, and now we know that filibuster will remain intact, so it won't happen on a partisan vote either. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-06-10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trump will run again - he wants to, and his sycophants topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 176 epoch Lifetime ID 1432348923776289 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/10/2021 12:06" title "Opinion | My Fellow Republicans, Stop Fearing This Dangerous and Diminished Man" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1432348923776289 ========== Put a WINNER like Trump on Mt Rushmore with all those LOSERS? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/img/rushmore-trump.jpg Washington declined a chance to be King, Jefferson died bankrupt, Lincoln was shot, Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican Party!Trump would NEVER lose like that unless the contest were rigged and stolen! Instead, why not put Trump up where he belongs on Stone Mountain? Trump is a Southerner now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain#Confederate_Memorial with those WINNERS Jackson and Lee! And also carve in the other prophets who led the way toward the Trumpist modern Dixiecrat-Republican Party - Thurmond, Nixon, Gingrich, and Trump! Or those leading the way to the future - Cruz, DeSantis, Hawley, and Trump! Any of them would be proud to be carved in stone next to Jefferson Davis! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America#%22Died_of_Davis%22 But they better be quick about it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/05/26/georgia-stone-mountain-park-confederate/ Don't believe what leftist elitists write in history books - trust your feelings about what happened and is going to happen! Forget RINO's like Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Reagan! The new Dixiecrat-Republican Rushmore at Stone Mountain will get far higher ratings! The LOSERS will shed bitter tears! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/img/rushmore-gray.jpg == #PS1trumpism https://www.political-scrapbook.net/img/rushmore-trump.jpg ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-05-21 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Put a WINNER like Trump on Mt Rushmore with all those topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 174 epoch Lifetime ID 1419501368394378 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/21/2021 15:05" title "w.political-scrapbook.n" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1419501368394378 ========== What's in it for me? GOP leaders are trying in vain to get Trump to focus on the GOP instead of himself. They are unclear on the concept - Trump is GOP is Trump. L'état, c'est moi! He doesn't care if the Republicans control Congress if he's not president. It's more important to him to exact revenge on everybody who has failed him, lining up pure Trumpists to primary the traitors. Get them out of Congress and out of his party. Then he'll be ready to run for president in 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-retribution/2021/05/07/daf0cd4e-ae7c-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html One way he can weed out weak sisters is by telling bigger and bigger lies louder and louder to see who hesitates to say Amen. It's a real test of character that GOP legislators fall over themselves to fail. Not that they get anything for their loyalty - just ask Mike Pence, or the insurrectionists facing Federal felony charges. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/07/decline-fall-elise-stefanik/ By traditional standards, Cheney is far more conservative than Stefanik. But in Trumpthink, Conservative = Trumpist. Not Trumpist, not conservative. The reality is that the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat-Republican Party is not conservative - or liberal - but an ideology-free zone, a cult of personality. Lindsey Graham's fantasy is that Trump is trying to grow the GOP base. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/07/lindsey-graham-fox-news-2022-midterms/ Trump knows better than that; like major GOP donors, he knows that their only future is in suppressing Democratic voters, not finding imaginary new GOP voters. If you've got the donors you can get the voters by flooding the zone with propaganda. Who cares if it's true or not? So what if he's leading the GOP down into the same dark hole as the Whigs? Why would he care what happens after he's gone? Après moi le deluge! == Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees! for ye make one proselyte, and make him twofold more the child of hell than you. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/07/trump-his-perpetrators-bystanders-own-republican-party-incompatible-with-democracy/ Applies to legislators and media stars, too! It's bad enough to be ignorant, but to know better and repeat lies anyway? For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world of eternal life and honor, and lose his next election? But you can't be half-hearted about minority rule. You'd lose a fair election, so use all means, fair or foul. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1trumpism https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-retribution/2021/05/07/daf0cd4e-ae7c-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-05-07 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What's in it for me? topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 374 epoch Lifetime ID 1409860802691768 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/07/2021 17:05" title "Trump’s out-of-power agenda: Retribution against foes, commanding the spotlight and total domination of GOP" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1409860802691768 ========== 53 percent of conservatives still say being a Christian is important to being an American https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/07/no-wonder-nativists-are-panic/ The Trumpiest Trumpists don't need rich Jewish supporters, only their money, and everybody knows how that ends - where we send Soros, we send all. They rioted with Confederate flags and Camp Auschwitz shirts and crosses and Q's, not Magen David. Will Trump even be interested in Israel after Netanyahu is gone? Do any of Trump's many vicious would-be successors have Jewish in-laws? The GOP leadership has pivoted from blaming Trump to praising him. Next step - pivoting from blaming the rioters to praising them, as Trump did from the first. What Trump says goes - until one of his vicious would-be successors figures out how to sideline Trump for good, while blaming somebody else. Sound familiar? #PS1trumpism ===== comments 1 impact 13 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-05-07 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title 53 percent of conservatives still say being a Christian topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 133 commentsimpress 1 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1409597339384781 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/07/2021 07:05" title "Opinion | This is why MAGA nativists are in a panic" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1409597339384781 ========== The magic of minority rule! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/opinion/trump-republicans.html It's all about diverting attention - from what's important - to what isn't. Pay no attention to the major donor behind the curtain! As is evident at every campaign rally, Trump is a master salesman and attention diverter. Unfortunately for the major donor behind the curtain, Trump's own attention is diverted to his own personal grievances rather than the donor's problems of maintaining power. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1399739950370520 #PS1trumpism https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/opinion/trump-republicans.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-04-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The magic of minority rule! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 70 epoch Lifetime ID 1399839853693863 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/22/2021 16:04" title "Opinion | Why Trump Is Still Their Guy" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1399839853693863 ========== Just what you'd expect from the Scammer-in-Chief. Now all the GOP candidates will do the same. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html Roy Cohn would have been so proud. Roger Stone probably is proud. GOP voters better be very careful - and just mail a check. And as you've probably guessed, there are no 10X matching donations to anything. In fact almost all matching donation claims are suspect - industry standard practice seems to be to lie. Actblue and all Democratic candidates and committees should shut down all recurring-donation options and forswear fake matching-donation claims. No need to imitate Trumpism. #PS1trumpism ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-04-04 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Just what you'd expect from the Scammer-in-Chief. Now all topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 95 epoch Lifetime ID 1387992978211884 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/04/2021 13:04" title "How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1387992978211884 ========== A man with a plan! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-media-acquittals-impeachments-trump-impeachment-7ea6f630a730d8d9aa2a76f886cc158f 2022 - vengeance - the year of long knives! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives Wreak vengeance by primary on all RINO's who opposed him or blocked his plans! Sure some of his primary candidates will fall to Democrats in the general, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/now-begins-mcconnells-project-to-shrink-trumps-gop-influence/2021/02/14/ff7201de-6eed-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html but the important thing for Trump is to insure Trumpist party discipline for the next step - 2024 - restoration - Restore Trump in the White House and Trumpism in Congress by ANY means necessary. Sure some of the leaders of the foot soldiers will be languishing in prison, but there are plenty more to replace them from Trump's base, and the prisoners can perhaps look forward to pardons once Trump is back in power. The base is behind him no matter what! They'll be trained and equipped so they won't fail THIS time! Lindsey Graham has already signed in blood for another enlistment! But has he brought the donors to the party? https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/politics/lindsey-graham-trump-acquittal-2022/index.htm Evidently Graham was misquoted - https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-graham-says-he-is-done-with-trump-mob-final-straw/2101305 when he said "count me out. Enough is enough" he really meant "you can count on me - nothing is too much to ask" or as G Gordon Liddy said "Just tell me what corner to stand on". It'll be the corner on the Capitol steps next to the jury-rigged gallows. McConnell has to figure out how to regain his majority despite Trump's hopes to run loser fringe revenge candidates. McConnell has no mass appeal; he has to work through donors. #PS1trumpism https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-media-acquittals-impeachments-trump-impeachment-7ea6f630a730d8d9aa2a76f886cc158f ===== hide 1 impact 48 impactrate 0 negative 1 posted 2021-02-14 ratio 12 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title A man with a plan! topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 241 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 ID 1355962541414928 impress 26 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 24 likeuusers 23 matchedlinkclicks 1 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 26 oreach 25 posted "02/14/2021 07:03:27 PM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 25 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1355962541414928 ========== “Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up — a real WINNER!” GOP leaders have realized that Greene is not inimical to the Trumpist Party, she IS the Trumpist Party, along with others like her. And the Trumpist Party/personality cult IS the Republican Party. https://apnews.com/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-facebook-65c25a3f2ba05cc2393584c5ab5a7fa2 Minority rule depends on whatever allies it can get - anybody who can get stirred up by words and doesn't care what laws actually pass. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html The leadership has calculated that though educated suburban women voters might come and go, the crazies are with Trump forever and have to be accommodated. So once again, there will be no consequences and the crazies will get crazier. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-republican-extremists/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 22 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-01-28 ratio 7 react 2 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title “Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 110 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 2 ID 1344563409221508 impress 16 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 14 likeuusers 14 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 16 oreach 15 posted "01/28/2021 11:42:15 AM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 15 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1344563409221508 ========== Does the Republican Party have ANY standards of character and behavior other than fealty to Trump? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/26/marjorie-taylor-greene-facebook-violence/ Are they trying to rehabilitate Preston Brooks as a role model? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks She should be expelled at once. As with Trump, failure to take action is an encouragement to greater offences. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/27/gops-marjorie-taylor-greene-problem-is-spinning-out-control/ #PS1trumpism ===== impact 19 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-01-27 ratio 3 react 4 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Does the Republican Party have ANY standards of character topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 47 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 3 ID 1344160889261760 impress 19 likeclickusers 3 likeuimpress 13 likeuusers 13 matchedlinkclicks 3 oimpress 19 oreach 15 posted "01/27/2021 08:57:16 PM" postlinkclicks 2 reach 15 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1344160889261760 ========== Why Mitch won't put up with Trump any more, though he's not quite ready to say it in public. McConnell has devoted his career to maintaining minority rule - and insuring his re-election - through thick and thin by keeping his fractious caucus together no matter what - preventing votes from coming to the floor that would be divisive. His reward is that he's mostly gotten his way on anything coming through the Senate. This means that he has probably subordinated his personal preferences at times for the good of maintaining his caucus. Trump, in contrast, never subordinates himself to anything or anyone. He is excited about the prospect of spending the next four years persecuting the RINOs who were not fully loyal to him. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/us/politics/republicans-trump-leadership.html Of course, the Trumpists are the true Republicans in Name Only - with no traditional Republican ideology, they happened to land in the Republican Party only because it had to accept them to bolster its minority-rule coalition. Persecution of some Republicans by others means the end of McConnell's caucus. The only clear path forward for either half of the Republican Party is to foment a corresponding split in the Democratic caucus - and they do have ideological Democrats sympathetic to that cause. https://apnews.com/article/biden-inauguration-joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-trials-0537f114e8574bd39dcfa45f22730a7a Put another way, McConnell is a master of public self-restraint who thrives behind the closed doors of his caucus, a discipline antithetic to a self-promoting public cult personality like Trump - and that contributed to his downfall. #PS1trumpism ===== comments 2 impact 343 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2021-01-17 ratio 3 react 14 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 6 title Why Mitch won't put up with Trump any more, though he's topic trumpism wordrate 0 words 245 audclicks 6 audreach 5 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 12 ID 1337563986588117 impress 53 likeclickusers 11 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 41 likeusers 5 likeuusers 39 matchedlinkclicks 3 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 53 oreach 48 posted "01/17/2021 05:48:52 PM" postlinkclicks 3 postotherclicks 3 reach 48 sharesimpress 1 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1337563986588117