The ‘protester’s’ during the Jan.6 Capitol takeover had a noose set aside for then Vice President Mike Pence, who Secret Service a capitol police had hide in the building….
Former Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News the media’s focus on the January 6th inssurection is a distraction intended to “demean” millions of Trump supporters.
Said Pence: “They want to use that one day to try and demean the character and intentions of 74 million Americans who believed we could be strong again and prosperous again and supported our administration in 2016 and 2020.”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/10/05/mike-pence-january-6-fox-news-analysis-se-cupp-newday-ldn-vpx.cnn
Yeah the media shouldn’t focus on the domaestic terrorist wing of the Republican Party.
Hell those good folks who wanted to be “strong and prosperous “ wanted to lynch this damn bastard.
Pence just wants to forget the whole thing.
“In the 1980s when I became a Republican,the GOP took pride in describing itself as the ‘the party of ideas.’But under Trumps leadership Republicans (are now) the ‘stupid party.’Whats even more telling this is not a source of shame or embarrassment for the party’s populists.Theyre the stupid and proud of it Party.”
Max Boot Columnist and Author
Former Republican
They wuz after ur ass Mike!
When asked about the debt limit Lindsey Graham said he didn’t want to be a “complete asshole”.
Oh Lindsey that ship has long sailed!
Graham was also booed by Republican activists for recommending people get vaccinated.
Funny how you don’t hear about any Democrats being booed by their own for simply advocating good public health and responsible citizenship.
I’m sure if CG were still posting here he would bring up something about RFK Jr though.
The Democratic Party had a domestic-terrorist wing for decades: the Ku Klux Klan.
(However, in Indiana in the 1920’s the KKK successfully united with the Hoosier GOP.)
I don’t think it was until 1964 that the Democratic platform followed the Republican one by condemning the Klan (together with the John Birch Society and the Communist Party) or supporting an anti-lynching amendment.
I’m not sure what you are saying here.
I presume you are talking about the 1964 Republican National Convention where Gov. Nelson Rockefeller was booed off the stage after introducing a resolution to condemn the KKK ,the Communist Party and the Birch Society.That resolution wasn’t adopted ,nor was it part of the Republican platform.
Further, while the Klan was an issue at the Democratic convention in 1924,almost a hundred years ago,four years later the Democrats nominated New York Governor Al Smith for President , a Catholic,essentially repudiating the anti Catholic Klan.
None of this fairly distant history is anything comparable to what happened earlier this year wherein the then Republican President of the United States after harangueing a group that of Republicans who then invaded the Capitol of the United States ,some armed with the stated intent of lynching the Vice President.
Everybody knows that the Democratic Party once had a large racist faction. But parties change over time, and they will continue to do so. My fear – and it is genuine – is that the GOP will continue to become even more authoritarian and more fascist than it is today. No one (other than perhaps Cheney and Kinzinger to a limited degree) is standing in the way. The few principled Republicans have left the party because they fear of standing alone on a principle. I see no reason for optimism.
There is no reason for optimism here, none at all. We can see what the GOP is trying to engineer here by way of election manipulation.
Does anyone doubt that Trump would still be in the White House if that mob had killed Nancy Pelosi? Anyone?
For reference my father was a delegate to the 64 GOP convention and I remember as a kid his conversations with his fellow delegates before they left for the convention. Even then it scared me. They would have never condemned the John Birch Society because they were the John Birch Society.
One of the funniest but saddest conversations to have is with a Republican who will remind you that the Republicans freed the slaves. Or they bring up Tim Scott. The foundation of the modern Republican Party is racism and white grievance.
I someone has their more recent history of the evolution of the parties on this topic confused. Wikipedia failed them.
And back to Nikki Haley….
She gave a speech recently at the Reagan Library .A typical “libruls hate America “ tirade,sort of the stock in trade now for so called “conservatives.”
Nothing new ,just another pathetic effort by this “believe in nothing” type desperately trying to make the Trump dominated Republican Party forget about her performance after the Republican attack on the Capitol.
Then, Nikki denounced Trump,figuring that for sure this Trump inspired outrage was so far over the line that her fellow Republicans would finally have had enough.
She was wrong.
The vast majority of her party almost instantaneously began excusing theTerrorist action and rallied to Trumps defense .
Trapped like a rat,Nikki has been in full reversal mode for awhile now.
Trump ignores her and in largely irrelevant ,yet widely reported polling ,she wallows in the low single digits as a preferred presidential candidate.
Nikki will always be around.She will say and do anything to remain relevant ,even as her status as the leading female Republican candidate is challenged by the more raw meat extremist Kristi Noem.
Who will Nikki be tomorrow?Who knows?
She can only look for an inspiring, Profiles in Courage example of principle and constancy to her Senator with a palmetto-log spine, Lindsey Graham.