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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

When was the Republican Party a party of ideas?
 
Charles Koch says he'd work with Democrats who share his values

Koch did not support Trump during the 2016 election and is known to be skeptical of the president. But asked whether he thinks Trump is to blame for the divisiveness of U.S. politics — to which the Koch network tried to paint itself as an antidote over the weekend — Koch said the blame should be shared widely.
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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Embracing Trumpism

Creepy AF. His daughter will hate him for that.

Wife is pretty hot though.

It’s nuts how GOP candidates are desperately tying themselves to an extremely unpopular president. And they can’t pivot because Trump will tweet at them.
 
New Emails Show Michigan Republicans Plotting to Gerrymander Maps

In another exchange, an aide to former Republican Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter proposed swapping equal numbers of residents in two suburban Detroit districts to meet “the obvious objective — putting dems in a dem district and reps in a GOP district.”

“It will help increase the black population in the black districts because the former is 17% black while the latter is only 6% black,” he wrote.

That same staff member asked Mr. Timmer to produce population and voting records for one hypothetical map, then exulted: “In a glorious way that makes it easier to cram ALL of the Dem garbage in Wayne, Washtenaw, Oakland and Macomb counties into only four districts. Is there anyone on our side who doesn’t recognize that dynamic?”
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emails!
 
As I understand the current law, the first and third emails aren't problematic (political gerrymandering) while the middle one is (on the basis of race). Is this correct?
 
PhDeac said:
Creepy AF. His daughter will hate him for that.

Wife is pretty hot though.

It’s nuts how GOP candidates are desperately tying themselves to an extremely unpopular president. And they can’t pivot because Trump will tweet at them.
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At the rate we're going, I fully expect to see ads soon from some GOP candidate somewhere showing him/her literally kissing Trump's butt, or a cardboard cutout version, followed by the candidate giving a tour of their home in which they point out how their walls, side tables, and fireplace mantle is covered with Trump memorabilia, and at least one room that is dedicated solely to their worship of the Cult of Trump. It's what they do now.
 
I’ll put this here

Trump’s Supreme Betrayal

By now, it’s almost a commonplace to say that Trump has systematically betrayed the white working class voters who put him over the top. He ran as a populist; he’s governed as an orthodox Republican, with the only difference being the way he replaced racial dog-whistles with raw, upfront racism.

Many people have made this point with respect to the Trump tax cut, which is so useless to ordinary workers that Republican candidates are trying to avoid talking about it. The same can be said about health care, where Democrats are making Trump’s assault on the Affordable Care Act a major issue while Republicans try to change the subject.

But I think we should be seeing more attention devoted to the way Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court fits into this picture. The Times had a good editorial on Kavanaugh’s anti-worker agenda, but by and large the news analyses I’ve seen focus on his apparently expansive views of presidential authority and privilege.

I agree that these are important in the face of a lawless president with authoritarian instincts. But the business and labor issues shouldn’t be neglected. Kavanaugh is, to put it bluntly, an anti-worker radical, opposed to every effort to protect working families from fraud and mistreatment.

The most spectacular example is his opinion that Sea World owed no liability for a killer whale attack that killed one of its workers, because she should have known the risks. He has declared the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which helps control the financial fraud against working families that played a major role in the 2008 crisis, unconstitutional. He’s taken an extremely expansive view of the rights of business to suppress union organizing.

This is all, by the way, the opposite of populism. The public strongly supports worker protections. The ongoing campaign to take them away is an act of conservative elites, people who have made their careers by carrying water for business interests, and is being implemented in effect by stealth under the noses of voters who thought Trump was on their side.

And this betrayal matters much more for workers than, say, Trump’s trade bluster. There’s growing evidence that wage stagnation in America – the very stagnation that angers Trump voters — isn’t being driven by impersonal forces like technological change; to an important extent it’s the result of political changes that have weakened workers’ bargaining power. If Trump manages to install Kavanaugh, he’ll help institutionalize these anti-worker policies for decades to come.
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Good read and it’s the argument Democrats should be using.
 
it gets really old saying this over and over and over again, but can you imagine the reaction from Congressional Republicans and the right wing media if Obama's IRS had even suggested unilaterally issuing a regulation that would add $100 Billion to the deficit?
 
I mean the GOP had an aneurism about Obama playing golf, a number of times in eight years that Trump surpassed in one year...to crickets from the GOP. Just partisan BS. We have legit issues now...still GOP crickets.
 
Good God that is depressing. There is no one that cares less about them.
 
warak said:
Good God that is depressing. There is no one that cares less about them.
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Yep, it blows my mind that the people who support Trump the most are the ones that are the most opposite of him. Do you like rich elite from NYC? No. Liars? No. Adulters? No. Sexual predators? No. People who support Russia? No. Bullies? No. Do you like Donald Trump? Hell yeah!!

It's quite sad, really. I guess when it is all said and done, Trump will go down as one of the "best" con-men in history.
 
I don’t trust anybody I don’t know more than my friends or family.

It’s just a cult. Plain and simple.
 
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