The Rightwingnut conservertive group of lawmakers trying to outdo Trump have gone too far it would appear with plans for pushing white ‘Anglo-Saxon’ traditions ….
Republicans ARE walking and Running away from the idea …..
The Republican establishment IS cawling it’s way back from the Trump influence….It won’t be easy…
The ‘tug of war’ in the Grand ole Party takes another turn…..
Republicans from various factions in the GOP are racing to distance themselves — and the party at large — from a band of hard-line House conservatives whose flirtation with forming a caucus espousing white nationalist views has ignited a firestorm of controversy on Capitol Hill.
GOP leaders, anti-Trump centrists and vulnerable Republicans in battleground districts wasted little time in recent days denouncing the “America First Caucus,” whose stated purpose in a platform document included the defense of America as a nation “strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”
While the Republicans reportedly behind the group — including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) — appear to have abandoned the project in the face of bipartisan criticism, their very interest has created an enormous headache for Republican leaders seeking to steer the party away from an image of racial insensitivity and appeal to a broader swath of voters, including women and minorities, in the post-Trump era….
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It’s unclear if Gosar and Greene — a firebrand first-term conservative who has become one of former President Trump‘s most strident defenders on Capitol Hill — are truly scrapping the idea of an America First Caucus. In a series of tweets Saturday, Greene dismissed the policy document as a “staff level draft proposal from an outside group” that she had never approved, while lashing out at the “scum and liars in the media.”…
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It’s unclear if Gosar and Greene — a firebrand first-term conservative who has become one of former President Trump‘s most strident defenders on Capitol Hill — are truly scrapping the idea of an America First Caucus. In a series of tweets Saturday, Greene dismissed the policy document as a “staff level draft proposal from an outside group” that she had never approved, while lashing out at the “scum and liars in the media.”…
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As with Donald Trump himself?
Following his misguiding politics are a recipe for political losing…..
More and more Republicans are coming out and saying this even if Republican voters support Trump….Who is a private citizen not in office anymore…
The Republican establishment IS crawling it’s way back from the Trump influence….It won’t be easy…