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Democrat-Supporting Grift Outfit Laments the ‘Extinction’ of ‘Good Republicans’
There’s an article on the Bull-Work (I read it so you don’t have to) lamenting that “The Good Republicans are gone. Probably for good.” They lament that Ben Sasse is leaving the Senate because he — like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Paul Ryan — were “good Republicans.”
To the Bull-workers, a good Republican is a Republican that ignores his constituents and follows The New York Times editorial page. “Good Republicans” never question the decency and competence of the Deep State bureaucracy. “Good Republicans” let the left own the culture and institutions because fighting them is distasteful. “Good Republicans” support open borders and uncontrolled mass immigration because it’s good for the donor class. “Good Republicans” don’t question media narratives. “Good Republicans” most certainly do not oppose costly foreign wars all over the world.
A good Republican knows his primary role is keeping the peasants from disrupting the progressive agenda.
What ruined Republicans, they say, is they stopped listening to the wise punditry of Bill Kristol and started listening to right-wing rabble.
It works like this: Hardcore base voters want to watch media that confirms all their priors and then some. —> So fringe media outlets get traction with Republican audiences. —> GOP politicians need to go on these media outlets in order to reach base voters. —> The more politicians go on these fringe shows, the more mainstream these outlets become. —> Which creates competition for right-wing news outlets that are one standard deviation more sane, forcing those media outlets to get crazier just to stay on par.
So, what makes a Republican bad is … listening to their constituents.
Of course, it had nothing to do with two successive Republican administrations and Republican Congresses raising taxes, opening borders, appointing left-wingers to the Supreme Court, running up massive debts, bloating the federal bureaucracy, selling out to Democrats and calling it “bipartisanship,” and getting the USA into pointless, futile, and costly foreign wars and calling this agenda “conservatism.”
According to them, the “bad Republicans” are Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin, and Kari Lake. Because they are “populists” who have the unmitigated gall to pursue the policies their voters want. Because they have the temerity (is that the right word? I better consult the dictionotomy), nay, the impudence (thanks dictionotomy) to question that an election decided by junk-mail ballots dumped at 3 a.m. might not have been “the cleanest and fairest in history.”
Remember, The Bulwark endorsed slimy Democrat Terry McAuliffe over Glenn Youngkin, because even though Youngkin distanced himself from Trump, he didn’t distance himself enough in their view. And now Youngkin is doing the unconscionable offense of … campaigning for other Republicans.
I am sure we all appreciate being lectured on what a “good Republican” is from an outfit funded by leftist billionaires that endorses Democrats.
Shut up and eat your beats.
I am so glad these people are gone.
Love means never having to a say I’m a “good” Republican.
Live free or die.
Not enough of them are gone yet.
Also, it’s not Bulwark, it’s “Billwank.” As in “Bill Kristol spends his days wanking over dreams of World War III.”
We have a real problem with fake Republicans and fake conservatives out there fooling the low-information voters and dragging those voters leftward.
They keep looking for new cliffs to march over.
They’ve found it. Kristol came out for child mutilations this morning.
I am glad Pete Meijer is gone. I hated that slimy ginger weasel. And I am even happier that his scheme to make a name for himself as the ‘brave freshman congressman who defied Trump’ blew up in his smug face. And I am positively delighted that it was his Democrat friends who put the knife in his back. (see also Adam Kinzinger).
One step at a time.
Those grifters for the most part are gone. The followers will either follow or realize they were being grifted and stay. We do have the ‘I’m a Reagan Republican TM’ people in transition.
Here’s a suggestion: The “good” Republicans should all gather on the National Mall and self-immolate to protest of the “bad” Republicans. I might pay attention to them then.
Thank you for reading the bird cage lining, not that I was tempted to, but it is informative, even if repulsive, to know what these people are saying.
Good luck on winning general elections if you have excommunicated the half of the party which is more “Republican” than “Trumpy.”
I would have loved to vote for Karrin Taylor Robson for Governor, but she was beaten by a few points by Election Denier Kari Lake for Governor.
I would have loved to vote for Jim Lamon for Senate, but he was beaten by a few points by Election Denier Blake Masters.
I would have loved to vote for Beau Lane for Secretary of State, but he was beaten by a few points by Election Denier Mark Finchem, who actually was at the Capitol on January 6th.
For some odd reason, you are denouncing an article without fairly quoting from it. Here is a link to it: https://www.thebulwark.com/the-end-of-the-good-republicans/
The money quote:
“For years we watched the GOP defenestrations: Will Hurd, Jeff Flake, George W. Bush, the memory of John McCain, Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and any other Republican who stood up to Donald Trump—or even just opposed Trump’s attempted coup. Some fell on their swords. Some were tossed aside involuntarily. The result was the same.
“Simultaneously, we watched the progress on the other side of the spectrum as normie Republican moderates such as Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Elise Stefanik, Ronna Romney McDaniel, and J.D. Vance became unquestioning Trump maximalists.”
If the Bull**** is lamenting, then I am celebrating!
Good luck winning general elections with only Trumpy Republicans.
Stay mad.
Not mad, just determined to take my party back from the Trumpy gang. And it is working.
What matters is which party is in control of the House and Senate. You vote for the party to be in charge. We see what Democrats in charge for the last two years have done to this country.
Screw your “take back the Party” garbage. You either get Democrats in charge or Republicans. You either vote straight ticket Republican or you’re putting Democrats in charge. The way you are voting tells us who you want in charge of this nation: Democrats.
This is why we oppose you.
Stay mad.
It will a riot when you come out against DeSantis.
The half? LOL. Truly delusionally self-important.
Here are the people you’re voting for, Gary.
This is accurate.
The reason for the popularity of Trump is because of George W. Bush and his incredibly stupid policies. The War on Terrorism was more like a War on the American People. And then there were all of his enablers and those who helped formulate his execrable policies. Bush ran on a very different set of policies in 2000 and why I did vote for him in 2000, but refused to vote for him in 2004. He, like his read-my-lips father, was a total and complete fraud and liar when he got into office.
This is going to be interesting. The Principles First types don’t like him and lately they talk like Gary on steroids.
I think DeSantis is more broadly skilled at what Trump does and he obviously has the right policies. He’s got the constitution and civics down pat, unlike Trump. Moore executive skill.
At that point, what topics is Gary going to be articulate on?
And watching principles first support McMullin is embarrassing. These people are communist dupes.
I just remembered something. One of the tweets in the principals first orbit was acting like those guys were into Friedrich Hayek and then judging some Trump thing or some Trump-oriented thing. I mean, that’s very nice, but we are so far past that point it is ridiculous.
Related to that, this is just exceptional. Very easy to understand. ESG. Bad Fed policy.
The blood and treasure in Iraq.
FISA courts.
100%
“Good Republicans” like Bush, McCain, and Romney are how you got Trump.
Getting on a plane.
Spying on every American.
Weaponizing the FBI, CIA, etc.
OKing torture.