Why NOT to vote Republican

[LDAHL]

"I would like Trump to be caught with something bad enough to torpedo any future candidacy and start purging the populists so the GOP can become conservative again."

Oh, but haven't you heard? The MAGA crowd is now gearing up for a civil war. Sigh.

I think that belief is limited to the biggest fringewits on the left and right.

[frugal-one]

I think that belief is limited to the biggest fringewits on the left and right.

Sounds like just the right.

[jp1]

I guess one of those fringewits was in Cincinnati today. Weird how republicans are all ‘law and order! Law and order!’ Until suddenly they aren’t.

[Rogar]

I guess one of those fringewits was in Cincinnati today. Weird how republicans are all ‘law and order! Law and order!’ Until suddenly they aren’t.

In all fairness, I don't think Republican is an accurate description. Maybe white nationalists who are inspired by Trump. Or just whackos. I seem to recall from some political philosophy that if you go far enough to the right and left, they tend to meet somewhere.

[frugal-one]

or maga republicans?

[JaneV2.0]

I'm sure I'm biased, but where are the Violent Democratic fringewits in your scenario? I don't see any lefties shooting up supermarkets or FBI offices or threatening civil war.

[Rogar]

It's probably a matter of semantics. The John Wayne conservatives like to label the rioters in Portland left or extreme left, but they were more accurately anti-fascists or something outside of the traditional definition of leftists. Whackos of various shades.

[JaneV2.0]

It's probably a matter of semantics. The conservatives like to label the rioters in Portland left or extreme left, but they were more accurately anti-fascists or something outside of the traditional definition of leftists. Whackos.

I joke that I'd join Antifa if I could find an application somewhere--who on earth wouldn't be anti-fascist?. Outside the Proud Boys and other right-wing provocateurs, there were a few brawlers at the demonstrations who were arrested--very few among thousands and thousands of people. And people who think they spotted an Antifa flag at those rallies were seeing the anarchist flag. Not the same thing at all.

And remember, those demonstrators were protesting the wanton killing of minorities--which seems to me to be a valid reason to demonstrate--unlike the mob in Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us."

[Rogar]

Yes, I suspect there have a been a lot of republicans who are also antifascists, but don't know it. Or maybe not.

[iris lilies]

I'm sure I'm biased, but where are the Violent Democratic fringewits in your scenario? I don't see any lefties shooting up supermarkets or FBI offices or threatening civil war.

The people who were burning buildings and shooting cops dead in St. louis not long ago were not Trump supporters.

They are thugs, but leftie thugs, regardless of what they are protesting.
yes, you are biased.