but it wasnt and isnt the fringe. Any opinion poll today finds that the majority of the party believes that a certified US presidential election was false, that January 6th was a false flag attack by “antifa”

The modern GOP never was sane. This is a party that has accused every sitting Democratic President in recent memory of being a communist.

This is the party that has proposed the demolition of social security. This is the party that has cultivated cultural conflict, racial conflict, and sexism as a political foundation upon which their party and their base stands. This is the party that prosecuted an illegal war of aggression. This is the party that demanded war with Iran.

This is the party that questioned Obama’s citizenship.

This is the party that created a torture state and denied it was torture.

This party isnt sane. They denied the objective scientific consensus backing the validity of anthropogenic climate change. They denied what is now plain to see for anyone living in the south-west, in a low-lying coastal region, or in a state like Colorado whose rivers are drying up.

That is insanity. That insanity has led us to the climate “mitigation” future that now even the Republicans hasten to deny

fuck this system that has the rich ruling the poor

Theres nothing exciting about a republican debating a republican.

You want a test case for that? Who did the Democrats nominate for governor of Florida? A former republican. Howd that fuckn go?

Oh right, Desantis gained support compared to the past contest.

This post reeks of establishment brain drivel. The republican party has no major split within it: they support the same policies, they support the same candidates, they vote the same way.

The only distinction between say a Kevin McCarthy and Trump is aesthetic, rhetoric, and political style. They all support privatizing things that keep at least a 1/3 of seniors out of poverty. That is an extreme and dangerous position. That is more reprehensible than some governor pulling a media stunt or something of that sort.

I am sick of the liberal, mainstream-media tendency towards desperation for a “never-trump” republican. The vast majority of the party’s voters, elected representatives, and officials enthusiastically supported trump.