They don’t exactly get a choice who wins the primary, and there may not have been anyone else qualified / interested in running. It isn’t as though it was a race that was likely to be won by a Republican.

So if I fill out a form to run for city council, that act in and of itself makes me a politician? Huh, I guess I can declare myself to be anything I want and that makes it so. I want to be Pope.

He’s not a politician! He has never held political office. Just because someone defines themselves as being a particular thing does not inherently make it so. If I apply for a job as a doctor in a hospital, does that make me a doctor?

Way to move the goalpost there buddy. Lets try this one last time, which Republican politicians in Connecticut are fascists? And don’t tell me that they are all fascists simply by association, this country runs on a two party system where you ostensibly have to be associated with one party or the other to be elected, yes in a perfect world there would be a separate group of politicians who could call themselves some other name, but we don’t live in Shangri-La, our electoral system doesn’t work that way.

So because one person who has chosen to associate himself with a group despite no evidence of that group actually wanting to be associated with that person, that by default defines the entire organization? I’d love to hear your views on other groups of people with problematic members, I’m sure they are lovely and not in any way bigoted or narrow minded. If you’re looking for me, I’ll be over here with the people who can actually form nuanced opinions without painting everything black and white.

As a matter of fact I don’t support fascists, you just seem quite keen on applying pejorative labels without actually being able to back it up with evidence.

What political office has Dominic Rapini ever held? You realize that literally anyone can register for a political party and run for office as a member of that party, no? Which specific politicians endorsed or supported him? Yeah, no shit, a few town committees endorsed the entire slate of Republican candidates on the ballot, and the CT GOP again lists the entire slate of candidates on their website, but who in this state has actually pledge support for him? Nobody.

What fascist views does Fred Camillo hold.

Ok, great, you’ve identified a total of one person with some problematic views who isn’t actually a politician, received virtually zero support from any specific members of the GOP in Connecticut, and lost by double digits.

> local Republicans won't go against the party

Why would your local politicians spend any time at all on national issues which have literally no impact on what they’re going to do in Hartford?

Which members of the CT GOP are fascists exactly?

Edit: How about people actually answer the question before hitting the downvote button?

I imagine given all the drought we had this summer it might a rough year for Christmas Trees

They merged with Filene’s in the 90’s which eventually merged with Macy’s

Yes, it’s the same song and dance every 10 years, there’s a bipartisan commission with an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, the Republicans draw their map, the Democrats draw their map, neither side agrees, it gets sent to be decided on by a court run by judges who were all appointed and approved by Democrats, and coincidentally the map that gets approved always ends up looking exactly like the one Democrats wanted in the first place, funny how that works.

The district was gerrymandered after the 2010 census to take a slice of the very blue third district and give it to the fifth making it much more difficult for Republicans to win there

This is only going to continue to get worse as long as our politicians keep covering their ears and shouting “La la la can’t hear you” every time the bear problem comes up in the legislature

The one party with only half as many registered voters as the other? The one party that hasn’t won a statewide race in over a decade? That’s what you’re going to blame it on?