They saw it coming.

[BlackSand]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

.

If the desire to stop granting the Federal Government power it shouldn't have, and the inability to compromise with those who think otherwise is a disease ...
The People that have it, aren't the sick ones, they are the cure to what ails everyone ...

.​

 

[Crepitus]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

On the other hand, Democrats have been fascists for as long as I remember, which is 40 years. Not saying you weren't fascists before that, but before that I was a kid and didn't really know what was going on.

You have telegraphed your hate a long time. People should have seen it coming. Many of us did

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

 

[Crepitus]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

.

If the desire to stop granting the Federal Government power it shouldn't have, and the inability to compromise with those who think otherwise is a disease ...
The People that have it, aren't the sick ones, they are the cure to what ails everyone ...

.​

It's not just about the inability to compromise, it's the descent into complete whack-jobbery.

 

[kaz]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

On the other hand, Democrats have been fascists for as long as I remember, which is 40 years. Not saying you weren't fascists before that, but before that I was a kid and didn't really know what was going on.

You have telegraphed your hate a long time. People should have seen it coming. Many of us did

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

Sure, supporting rioting and looting and violence in American cities all last summer. Targeting any black or woman who tries to leave the Democrat party. Stopping Trump supporters with violence from wearing his campaign hats. Stealing the election then threatening to destroy anyone who doesn't attest that the election wasn't stolen when it was. Forcing all students to be indoctrinated in leftism in our schools across the country at all levels.

Oh, sorry, you wanted one thing ...

 

[Crepitus]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

On the other hand, Democrats have been fascists for as long as I remember, which is 40 years. Not saying you weren't fascists before that, but before that I was a kid and didn't really know what was going on.

You have telegraphed your hate a long time. People should have seen it coming. Many of us did

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

Sure, supporting rioting and looting and violence in American cities all last summer. Targeting any black or woman who tries to leave the Democrat party. Stopping Trump supporters with violence from wearing his campaign hats. Stealing the election then threatening to destroy anyone who doesn't attest that the election wasn't stolen when it was. Forcing all students to be indoctrinated in leftism in our schools across the country at all levels.

Oh, sorry, you wanted one thing ...

All those things are just bullshit you've been told to believe. None of them are real. I asked for real things, not crap you've been force-fed.

 

[kaz]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

On the other hand, Democrats have been fascists for as long as I remember, which is 40 years. Not saying you weren't fascists before that, but before that I was a kid and didn't really know what was going on.

You have telegraphed your hate a long time. People should have seen it coming. Many of us did

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

Sure, supporting rioting and looting and violence in American cities all last summer. Targeting any black or woman who tries to leave the Democrat party. Stopping Trump supporters with violence from wearing his campaign hats. Stealing the election then threatening to destroy anyone who doesn't attest that the election wasn't stolen when it was. Forcing all students to be indoctrinated in leftism in our schools across the country at all levels.

Oh, sorry, you wanted one thing ...

All those things are just bullshit you've been told to believe. None of them are real. I asked for real things, not crap you've been force-fed.

Spend a day in a US city shopping and dining in a MAGA hat and report back that what I said is bull shit, fascist liar

 

[Crepitus]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

On the other hand, Democrats have been fascists for as long as I remember, which is 40 years. Not saying you weren't fascists before that, but before that I was a kid and didn't really know what was going on.

You have telegraphed your hate a long time. People should have seen it coming. Many of us did

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

Sure, supporting rioting and looting and violence in American cities all last summer. Targeting any black or woman who tries to leave the Democrat party. Stopping Trump supporters with violence from wearing his campaign hats. Stealing the election then threatening to destroy anyone who doesn't attest that the election wasn't stolen when it was. Forcing all students to be indoctrinated in leftism in our schools across the country at all levels.

Oh, sorry, you wanted one thing ...

All those things are just bullshit you've been told to believe. None of them are real. I asked for real things, not crap you've been force-fed.

Spend a day in a US city shopping and dining in a MAGA hat and report back that what I said is bull shit, fascist liar

Lol, if you wear a sign saying "I'm a fascist asshole" you should expect to be treated like a fascist asshole.

Derp.

 

[Uncensored2008]

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

{An important aspect of fascism (and socialism as well) is that the State is the ultimate power in the universe. Everything becomes subservient to it. Individual rights become irrelevant, limits on power are destroyed. This happened in Germany under the Nazis, and it is happening in the United States under the Democratic Party. Let’s take a look at some of the recent examples that we have covered at The Federalist Papers Project that confirm their fascist transformation.}

The Democratic Party Has Officially Gone Full Fascist

The Democratic Party Has Officially Gone Full Fascist [OP-ED]

thefederalistpapers.org

 

[BlackSand]

It's not just about the inability to compromise, it's the descent into complete whack-jobbery.

.

Your need to call anything whack-jobbery, is simply your desire to excuse your ignorance or incompetence.

You can stand by the road with a sign that reads, "will work for food" for all I care.
Your inability to achieve your desires in your community or at the State level, is what feeds your addiction to the Federal Government.

Get the fuck out of here you damn junkie.

.​

 

[Harry Dresden]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

Even in 2012, we couldn’t have foreseen how bad Republicans would become

i saw back in 1997 how pathetic both parties were....and they havent gotten any better....

 

[WTF19]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

Seig Heil indeed, Chang.

Leave your Nazism at home, please.

Leave your Nazism at home.

 

[kaz]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

On the other hand, Democrats have been fascists for as long as I remember, which is 40 years. Not saying you weren't fascists before that, but before that I was a kid and didn't really know what was going on.

You have telegraphed your hate a long time. People should have seen it coming. Many of us did

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

Sure, supporting rioting and looting and violence in American cities all last summer. Targeting any black or woman who tries to leave the Democrat party. Stopping Trump supporters with violence from wearing his campaign hats. Stealing the election then threatening to destroy anyone who doesn't attest that the election wasn't stolen when it was. Forcing all students to be indoctrinated in leftism in our schools across the country at all levels.

Oh, sorry, you wanted one thing ...

All those things are just bullshit you've been told to believe. None of them are real. I asked for real things, not crap you've been force-fed.

Spend a day in a US city shopping and dining in a MAGA hat and report back that what I said is bull shit, fascist liar

Lol, if you wear a sign saying "I'm a fascist asshole" you should expect to be treated like a fascist asshole.

Derp.

LOL, you think agreeing with my point contradicts it.

The sign was MAGA, Make America Great Again. It was Trump's campaign slogan.

You just agreed you're a hateful fascist who just wants to silence your opposition with violence

 

[WTF19]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

On the other hand, Democrats have been fascists for as long as I remember, which is 40 years. Not saying you weren't fascists before that, but before that I was a kid and didn't really know what was going on.

You have telegraphed your hate a long time. People should have seen it coming. Many of us did

So they started earlier than I thought.

BTW, can you show me something fascist that Democrats have done?

Sure, supporting rioting and looting and violence in American cities all last summer. Targeting any black or woman who tries to leave the Democrat party. Stopping Trump supporters with violence from wearing his campaign hats. Stealing the election then threatening to destroy anyone who doesn't attest that the election wasn't stolen when it was. Forcing all students to be indoctrinated in leftism in our schools across the country at all levels.

Oh, sorry, you wanted one thing ...

All those things are just bullshit you've been told to believe. None of them are real. I asked for real things, not crap you've been force-fed.

oh, all of a sudden -you want-....well everything you type is bullshit....you have been told to believe, and to spew the LYING propaganda....none of them are REAL.....we all ask for REAL things from you, but you either deny, deflect, or twist to suit.....
so, once again, whats your point?, all you do is spew LIES
you really should get that head examined to find out why you lie so much

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Brookings, kristol?! Really? Lol.

 

[kyzr]

Basically true. The Pre-Trump GOP was faux "conservatism" taking Chamber of Commerce money, since 70% of the US economy was sales/marketing, and supported moving US factories to China and their cheap labor. The US was okay with a "service economy" and no manufacturing sector. Color the 2012 GOP as "globalists".

Then Trump came along with his "America First Populist" policies and beat the globalists of both parties. The rest is history. Stay tuned to see how 2022 and 2024 turn out.

Whoa! Dude drank All the koolaide.

Another Crepy post with no content.

Xiden aka "Putin's Bitch" loses voters every time they go to the gas pumps. Call that "KoolAde" Xiden's hidden tax on his voters.

Allow me to translate for those that are metaphorically challenged, or maybe just plain dumb.

My comment "drank all the koolaide" was meant to convey the fact that you've fallen for the party line. The line intended to distract you from uncomfortable facts (like the fading relevancy of your party) with bile directed at chosen boogymen, like immigrants, gay people, or "globalists".

1. If I've fallen for the GOP "party line", WTF is it? What fallacy? Be specific.
2. What uncomfortable "alternate facts"? (fading relevancy isn't one as democrats will learn in 2022 and 2024)
3. GOP bile is directed primarily at criminals, including Putin's "Russia First" Bitch.

 

[kaz]

Basically true. The Pre-Trump GOP was faux "conservatism" taking Chamber of Commerce money, since 70% of the US economy was sales/marketing, and supported moving US factories to China and their cheap labor. The US was okay with a "service economy" and no manufacturing sector. Color the 2012 GOP as "globalists".

Then Trump came along with his "America First Populist" policies and beat the globalists of both parties. The rest is history. Stay tuned to see how 2022 and 2024 turn out.

Whoa! Dude drank All the koolaide.

Another Crepy post with no content.

Xiden aka "Putin's Bitch" loses voters every time they go to the gas pumps. Call that "KoolAde" Xiden's hidden tax on his voters.

Allow me to translate for those that are metaphorically challenged, or maybe just plain dumb.

My comment "drank all the koolaide" was meant to convey the fact that you've fallen for the party line. The line intended to distract you from uncomfortable facts (like the fading relevancy of your party) with bile directed at chosen boogymen, like immigrants, gay people, or "globalists".

1. If I've fallen for the GOP "party line", WTF is it? What fallacy? Be specific.
2. What uncomfortable "alternate facts"? (fading relevancy isn't one as democrats will learn in 2022 and 2024)
3. GOP bile is directed primarily at criminals, including Putin's "Russia First" Bitch.

It's classic, isn't it? Creep agrees with Democrats on every issue for the same reason using the same talking points as every other Democrat, and he's worried we "drank the kool aid."

He's not a smart guy

 

[BlackSand]

He's not a smart guy

.

Uh ... That's not what they told him at the Kool-Aid stand ... Quite the opposite, and he believes it ...

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[kaz]

He's not a smart guy

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Uh ... That's not what they told him at the Kool-Aid stand ... Quite the opposite, and he believes it ...

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Yes, Creep firmly believes that being smart means agreeing with Democrats on every issue. It's amazing the tricks you can teach a total sheep like him

 

[BlackSand]

Yes, Creep firmly believes that being smart means agreeing with Democrats on every issue. It's amazing the tricks you can teach a total sheep like him

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There's a difference between the desire to question, and looking for a particular answer.

To be fair ... It's why little is accomplished in Congress that doesn't support the desire to seize power from the People.
Ignorance may be Bliss, but it has to be enforced to defeat common sense.
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[Fort Fun Indiana]

That's right, they were warned, but nobody paid attention.

From 2012

"Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

Published in 2012, that Washington Post piece demonstrates more than the foresight of its political scientist authors, Tom Mann of the center-left Brookings Institution and Norm Ornstein of the center-right American Enterprise Institute. It shows the disease within the Republican Party had spread long before Trump metastasized it.

Their conclusions -- that the GOP had become "ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition" -- did not gain wide acceptance then. Many journalists joined leading Republicans in dismissing them.

"Ultra, ultra liberals" whose views "carry no weight with me," sneered Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
"I thought they overstated things," Republican Charlie Dent, then serving his fourth term in the House from Pennsylvania, recalls now.
"People like me were thinking, 'Yeah, there are some kooky people around, but c'mon,'" says William Kristol, who was then editing the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. With John Boehner as House speaker and Mitt Romney winning the GOP presidential nomination, Kristol saw the Republican mainstream still in command.
Facing reality
All have since gotten slugged by reality. What ailed the party in 2012 has worsened.
Kristol's magazine, having diverged from Trump-era orthodoxy, no longer exists. Of his earlier sources of reassurance: Boehner fled Congress to author a book decrying his colleagues' dysfunction; Romney has become a pariah as the only Republican senator who twice voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges.

Read the rest here:

Analysis: Dismissed in 2012, this diagnosis of GOP ills has now become undeniable

The essay described congressional extremists, their rejection of truth, a party turning into authoritarians or "an apocalyptic cult." It bore a striking headline:

www.cnn.com

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If the desire to stop granting the Federal Government power it shouldn't have, and the inability to compromise with those who think otherwise is a disease ...
The People that have it, aren't the sick ones, they are the cure to what ails everyone ...

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Spot on, the republicans are out of control, with their abortion bans and vote suppression, just for starters. Lets not leave out State government.