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Liz Cheney: The Leadership of My Party Enables White Supremacy
Liz Cheney (R?-WY?) or her junior staffer who runs the Twitter account, had this to say this morning.
The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.My question to Liz Cheney or her supporters is… what exactly has the GOP leadership done to enable “white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism?”
Or is this just part of her strategy to save her seat by getting Democrats to vote for her?
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Now you know how it feels.
Regrettably, the classification of the event as “right wing violence/terrorism” by the FBI fuels the perception that the right is violent and a problem.
Actually, you can, and nobody’s going to call her on it.
You don’t have to be white to be a white nationalist. Ask Larry Elder.
And yes it’s nonsense, but it has an effect. To quote Dingy Harry, “He didn’t get elected, did he?”
There are only two parties here. We should condemn groups that hate other groups. But enforcing strict ideological conformity is the kind of thing we consider contemptable when Dems do it (really, 49 senators voting in lockstep with their leadership to allow abortion up to delivery? Is that how they all privately think about abortion?)
Republicans get trapped here because every Republican of standing is asked to condemn any stupid thing that any other Republican has said. Dems don’t get asked to condemn every stupid thing that AOC says or every anti-semitic thing Ilhan Omar says. But, ya know what? They’re out there. Dems don’t care if detestable, awful people hold office in their name or vote for them. They’re totally comfortable with their nuts, thieves, bigots and traitors.
Like it or not, Republican platforms will attract their own form of nuts and extremists. And somebody will be the nuttiest and somebody will be the most extreme. We don’t have to like or support everybody in the tent.
Your political home seems to align with the way Democrats frame issues.
May I recommend Tim Groseclose’s Left Turn? Old, but still relevant for any who are overexposed to traditional media.
Attitudes. The right attitude leads to right policies and right decisions.
Attitude is a part of character, and while not perfect, these two strike me as sincerely pursuing conservative goals consistent with our constitution and our sovereignty. I also appreciate their social conservatism. The GOPe is dismissive of social concerns when it thinks it can get away with it. Those are the types I find to be unreliable on all other measures of conservatism, too.
As long as the two party system is the only way to get elected in this country, utilizing the primaries to get yourself represented is the only way.
I went for a decade or more feeling without a party. I still feel that way at the federal level because the old group has a lot of power and influence. But that doesn’t mean I should not have the opportunity to vote for my representatives. For anyone to argue that the GOP should remove them from the party platform, they essentially are arguing against my representation.
Steve Schmidt has entered the convo:
I wish to endorse Dave Reaboi’s take:
And it is probably the FBI that is organizing it. That is their modus vivendi.
If Gaetz and MTG are such white nationalists, why did they vote against a bill for $40 billion to pay the salaries and give arms to Nazis in Ukraine?
If all Democrats and most Republicans are against white nationalists, why did they vote for a bill for $40 billion to pay the salaries and give arms to Nazis in Ukraine?
Poor stupid Liz.
So, for having spoken somewhere she should be banned? You should apply for a job under Nina Jankowitz in the Truth Commission. Might I suggest that it is more important to understand and, perhaps, criticize what MTG said than to who she said it? I’ve never heard MTG say something that I thought was kooky, let alone, dangerous, have you?
I think you meant that the other way around.
Isn’t it the election that entitles her to a seat in Congress?
Probably would be hard for the door to miss.
“Stupid” pretty much covers it. I doubt she’ll ever be “poor”; especially after she signs her MSNBC contract. Wouldn’t it be great if she and Psaki start their own talk show?
I did. My brain was at the end while I was still typing. As long as the point got through.
Everyone keeps claiming the Dems’ crazies aren’t in power. But they are. When the vote en bloc with only 1 dissent for a position that has only 17% support from their base, then the crazies control them.
Our party can tolerate more of our crazies if MTG and Gaetz are representative of them.
The name Fuentes doesn’t sound white either.
Ahhh man, I wanted to read the blurred-out parts!
Liz Cheney is playing on Democrat rules that blame Republicans for anything that any Republican anywhere hasn’t denounced to an unachievable level demanded by Democrats. She can’t point to any supporting evidence of her idiotic statement. To those citing Rep. Greene and the other Republicans cited in this thread, note that those people are prominent only because Democrats (including the Democratic media) publicize them. As to the Republican party in general, they are on the outer periphery of party influence. Meanwhile the Democratic LEADERSHIP (Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, AOC and other members of the “squad” (de facto leadership)) openly support violence, racism, sexism, murder, theft, corruption, and openly express hatred for large portions of the American population. I refuse to engage in a Democrat smear done on Democrat terms, even if the smear is proffered by a Republican.
Squint.
I don’t know if it is much of a “movement”, but identity politics is pushed hard by the Left. It has been that way a long time. There is much work to do to fix the culture.
Somehow I don’t think that’s what she’s referring to. She didn’t have the decency to be specific when making such an accusation against specific people, but I think she’s plugging into all the handwringing about Replacement Theory which the shooter apparently believed.
In other words people who complain about the border. And this despite the fact that replacement of Republican voters is the only conceivable motive Democrats could have for their lax border policies. If you were a Dem and were tasked with creating a false but believable talking point about why the border shouldn’t be enforced, what could you possibly come up with?
The hysteria the libs feel about Replacement Theory means that they know that we know what they’re up to. And Liz Cheney’s TDS apparently has made her feel the same way.
Personnel is policy.
Yeah, it’s funny how they have talked about this as a positive thing for years, and now the fact that we’re noticing, suddenly it’s a conspiracy theory.
Michael Anton calls that construction the Celebration Parallax
“That’s not happening and it’s good that it is!”
Isn’t “diversity” a form of replacement?
First, I’m glad you understand my thinking better than I do. I won’t vote for a Democrat. I despise what their party stands for: identity politics, magical monetary policy, extreme LGBT politics, and ever-expanding government power.
Identity politics and the cult of victim hood drive the Left’s positions. I see too much of that on the right these days and I believe it is destructive.
As for attitude, I think that’s where you lose me. If that’s your cup of tea and what you want in a Congressman, then I guess you’re getting what you want. My problem isn’t just their attitude, but also what it is they say. I don’t want to be in that party.
I’d rather have Mike Gallagher and Dan Crenshaw. They take their job seriously. They also try to persuade, not just preach to the choir.
The problem with dynasties is that the younger relatives tend to be feebleminded.
Is this about the Podhoretz and Kristol dynasties?