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tblue37

(65,227 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 09:53 PM Dec 2020

Trump throws John Thune under the bus in tweet:

Republicans in the Senate so quickly forget. Right now they would be down 8 seats without my backing them in the last Election. RINO John Thune, “Mitch’s boy”, should just let it play out. South Dakota doesn’t like weakness. He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!!!


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Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
2. Trump is trying to weaponize his appeal to his fanboys to upend the old guard of the GOP
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 09:59 PM
Dec 2020

And replace them with American Nazis.

If his gambit is successful, we'll end up with 3 parties and one fucked up country.

Squidly

(783 posts)
6. If we end up with 3 parties
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:16 PM
Dec 2020

Dems will end up winning pretty much every election since the Repubs will basically split into 2 while we retain our whole.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
11. It would be fascinating to see what percentage of US conservatives consider themselves fascist
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:28 PM
Dec 2020

And how many are throwbacks to Reagan.

I wonder. I really do. Trump has marginalized the latter and glamorized the former. But without him in the WH, I wonder how most Republicans identify themselves.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
14. I wouldn't be so sure of that.
Wed Dec 23, 2020, 12:59 AM
Dec 2020

Old guard republicans are dumb enough to let voter suppression laws stay in place and neutralize the power of democrats. Those laws will help the nazis defeat the old guard and everyone else, because they will ignore any rule of law that is inconvenient to them. Only being defeated in a war will stop the nazis, just like last time.

Squidly

(783 posts)
15. tell me how a party split in two
Wed Dec 23, 2020, 01:08 AM
Dec 2020

could defeat a party that remains whole when the party that remains whole just defeated the hypothetical split party by over 7 million votes? New math?

Squidly

(783 posts)
4. Id hate to see what would replace them
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:14 PM
Dec 2020

Better to have the devil you know than the devil you dont. All we need is a senate full of Q followers.

David__77

(23,335 posts)
7. Believers in different fascist ideologies.
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:21 PM
Dec 2020

No necessarily all Q types - also conscious white supremacists ("Western chauvinists&quot , nationalists of different types.

usajumpedtheshark

(672 posts)
16. I am more skeptical. Thune is very much respected by my republican neighbors. May not be the same
Wed Dec 23, 2020, 04:32 AM
Dec 2020

through out the state. They seem pretty proud of his position in the leadership of the senate

StClone

(11,682 posts)
8. I wouldn't even say he had a political career
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:22 PM
Dec 2020

Trump's thing was a criminal enterprise of unimaginable and unprecedented scope as a consequence of an unequal electoral process.

bdamomma

(63,803 posts)
9. tRump
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:24 PM
Dec 2020

is a POS, letting his criminal friends go. I am so tired of this impeached POS. Just a THUG, and will ever will be.

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