Excellence research and a remind of why, out of all the media sources I frequent, I always read Thom's entire articles, start to finish.
"A return to some semblance of normalcy in the GOP is essential to restoring a normal, functioning government to our nation, as Luttig points out. Odds are, however, it’s first going to take a widespread…
Excellence research and a remind of why, out of all the media sources I frequent, I always read Thom's entire articles, start to finish.
"A return to some semblance of normalcy in the GOP is essential to restoring a normal, functioning government to our nation, as Luttig points out. Odds are, however, it’s first going to take a widespread destruction of that party — provoked by huge Democratic wins in 2024 — to come about."
I don't see a return to semblance of normalcy in the GOP, even if they suffer significant losses in 2024. They will just resort to more lying and more violence. The base DOES see the terrible damage wrought by Nixon, the Bushes, and Trump, but they falsely attributed it to "the radical left" and their gay people, abortions and "wokeness." The leadership Is tells their base, using dog whistles, lies and code, that we are evil and to kill us. It's that simple. They WILL incite a civil war as they lose more and more elections because MAGA is PRIMARILY the warm-over Confederacy, itching for another fight. The looser edges of the base have been increasingly violent while the less extreme element excuses the violence as "political discourse" and "justified" to thwart the evil left (see Rittenhouse and before him, Zimmermann) as well as the corruption of the party. This all has been facilitated by the pulpit, with its generalized hatred of women, gays, trans, equality and secular government When a pastor of an all-white, male-ruled church tells me they don't discriminate against women or people of color, I can only look around and laugh at their complete lack of self-awareness.
Excellence research and a remind of why, out of all the media sources I frequent, I always read Thom's entire articles, start to finish.
"A return to some semblance of normalcy in the GOP is essential to restoring a normal, functioning government to our nation, as Luttig points out. Odds are, however, it’s first going to take a widespread destruction of that party — provoked by huge Democratic wins in 2024 — to come about."
I don't see a return to semblance of normalcy in the GOP, even if they suffer significant losses in 2024. They will just resort to more lying and more violence. The base DOES see the terrible damage wrought by Nixon, the Bushes, and Trump, but they falsely attributed it to "the radical left" and their gay people, abortions and "wokeness." The leadership Is tells their base, using dog whistles, lies and code, that we are evil and to kill us. It's that simple. They WILL incite a civil war as they lose more and more elections because MAGA is PRIMARILY the warm-over Confederacy, itching for another fight. The looser edges of the base have been increasingly violent while the less extreme element excuses the violence as "political discourse" and "justified" to thwart the evil left (see Rittenhouse and before him, Zimmermann) as well as the corruption of the party. This all has been facilitated by the pulpit, with its generalized hatred of women, gays, trans, equality and secular government When a pastor of an all-white, male-ruled church tells me they don't discriminate against women or people of color, I can only look around and laugh at their complete lack of self-awareness.