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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 05:01 AM Jun 2019

Kasich may be right about Republicans

By Jennifer Rubin | Washington Post
Posted Jun 1, 2019 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jun 1, 2019 at 4:53 PM

... Let me suggest five activities that #NeverTrump Republicans might take ...

... encourage a series of favorite sons and daughters into races to pry primary delegates away from Trump ...

... The attitude of Republicans inside the Beltway - currently, pure sycophancy - will only change if voters start agitating ... #NeverTrump Republicans might consider primary challenges against some of the president’s worst enablers in the Senate ...

... if a primary challenge proves futile, support the Democratic candidate closest to the center with the best chance to win ... If one is firmly of the belief that Trump is a threat to our constitutional democracy, and would be worse if reelected, other policy differences simply have to be put aside ...

... If you vote for the racist, lawless liar, you own his racism, his lawlessness .. and his lies ...

https://www.ncnewspress.com/opinion/20190601/jennifer-rubin-sadly-kasich-may-be-right-about-republicans

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Kasich may be right about Republicans (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2019 OP
K&R uponit7771 Jun 2019 #1
How can a guy with such well-thought and reasonable Freddie Jun 2019 #2
He's still a Republican! samplegirl Jun 2019 #3
THIS is how they drag the country to the right Cosmocat Jun 2019 #4
"Kasich may be right..." Yeah, far right with a thin, artificial, veneer of rationality. retread Jun 2019 #5

Freddie

(9,259 posts)
2. How can a guy with such well-thought and reasonable
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 06:44 AM
Jun 2019

ideas hate women so much? I can’t (and shouldn’t) get past it. Like the gov of LA. “On the other hand - there is no other hand.”

Cosmocat

(14,563 posts)
4. THIS is how they drag the country to the right
Sun Jun 2, 2019, 07:32 AM
Jun 2019

The move so far to the extreme (more and more over time) that they reset the "middle" more and more to the "right."

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