'Destroy Trump': Breitbart Staffers Seethe After Capitol Riot

[Demovictory9]

“This is banana republic shit,” wrote one editor at the staunchly pro-Trump outlet, in response to colleagues downplaying or excusing the violence during last week’s MAGA mob.

Editors and reporters at the staunchly pro-Trump conservative outlet Breitbart News privately clashed over whether President Donald Trump was to blame for last week’s deadly Capitol riot, according to internal messages reviewed by The Daily Beast.

“I am just not feeling charitable AT ALL,” international news editor Frances Martel posted to Slack the morning after the rioting that left five people dead, including a police officer. “Destroy Trump.”

Martel lamented that Trump’s support for the MAGA mob had undone a decade’s worth of conservative politics, leaving the Republican Party “in shambles” and dimming the right-wing movement’s prospects.

“He set us back like 10 years,” Martel wrote. “We have worked so hard to promote our values, values that made him president when he hawked them, and now he does this, leaving everything in shambles? Nah, destroy him. Let it be a lesson to every other ‘populist.’”

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[Greybnk48]

1. The Republican Party is dead.

It can never come back from this.

[sandensea]

16. +1

Any day now, that long dreaded (and long suppressed) event will befall our friends in the GOP:

The establishment of the Freedom Party - and with millions of mouth-breathers anxious to sign up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. There will be three parties that crawl out of the shambles

1) The smallest one that will emerge has actually been observing, tweeting, and (good) propagandizing from the sidelines: The Lincoln Project kind of conservatives. Rational, able to work with Democrats and vice versa.

Whether #2 or #3 will be bigger, is unknown. I'm guessing #2.

2) The Rotting Elephant Carcass party, also known as Greed Over People

3) The MAGA Q God Emperor of the US party

[sandensea]

45. Very likely. And which one will be the biggest?

The most extreme one, of course.

As you know, the GOP far-right has been discussing establishing a Freedom Party (or something like it) since Buchanan was denied the nomination in '92 and '96.

Repugs have since then managed to stave off a Freedom Party splinter by simply adopting its politics - i.e. neo-fascism.

But because the far-right has an insatiable appetite for extremism, it's no longer enough.

And when the schism comes, the GOP will be left as the smaller of the two right-wing parties. Freedom Party voters ('Freedumbers') will hate them to death, since they'll see the GOP as their one real impediment to power.

The cat fights will be fun to watch - so long as Freedumbers never actually win high office (God forbid).

[Rebl2]

19. Yep

Dead as a door nail.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

25. I wish I agreed

It should be dead.... but

1) this year, I learned that a solid third of US voters are fine with authoritarian government if it preserves the status quo.

2) the public tends to have a short memory.

[uponit7771]

36. They're not interested in a liberal democracy anyway, why don't they leave to Russia?

[central scrutinizer]

42. This was posted in 2008

After Bushco crashed the economy. Lasted 2 years.

[Rorey]

2. Still absorbing

I think a lot of Republicans are still trying to absorb just what the hell happened over the last four years, and especially over the last year. They were all so busy supporting trump and defending him against us that they didn't actually figure out all of the damage he was doing to their party.

To that I say, "Thoughts and prayers."

[Demovictory9]

4. a few months ago it was "more liberal tears when Trump wins again" , now Dems have WH, House, Senate

I must admit that the Senate win was a surprise.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

27. I think Trump helped drive that with his denial of election reality

(Taking nothing away from Stacey Abrams, who did stellar work)

What was more surprising- and bitterly disappointing- was our underperforming in the House and Senate in November. Clearly a lot of indies and some Republicans split tickets with Biden up top, but Republicans down-ticket.

I do think the capital insurrection provides a compelling counter-narrative to the right's demonization of BLM.

[peggysue2]

46. I agree. Abrams is a phenom

But in the Georgia runoff she had help from Trump's idiotic behavior. Taking the Senate was a long-shot at best after the disappointing congressional results in the GE. It meant reversing the idea that splitting the ticket was a good idea, as well as beating the weeds for additional voters.

Trump's obnoxious behavior turned off a good number of GOP voters. The final numbers in the runoff showed far more Republicans staying home than their Democratic counterparts. That in itself is unusual in these runoffs.

Why Trump thought beating up on and having his pit bulls threaten Kemp, the SOS and election officials was a good idea right before a tight election is beyond me.

But between Stacey Abrams' tireless work and Trumps' narcissistic thirst for revenge, it worked to our advantage.

A true nail biter!

[Xipe Totec]

12. Still absorbing... Like quilted TP. nt

[paleotn]

20. Instead of delaying the intevitable

Donnie accelerated it. From McConnell to state gerrymanderers they've fought to delay demographic inevitability. Played the Senate and electoral college game. Packed federal courts. Now, there's a very good chance Trump has blown it all up. Inciting mobs of prols and armed insurrection just doesn't play well.

[uponit7771]

37. No they're not, 8 out of 10 Trump supporters don't think he did anything wrong. FAUX News is telling

... them its ANTFA or some other version of No True Scottsman argument.

The FBI should be able to crush their dreams but they're being as slow as frozen ice cream with the convictions

[Rorey]

39. I should have clarified

I was referring to leadership Republicans in Congress, not the cult who watch FauxNews. I highly doubt people like McConnell believe one bit of the conspiracy theories have been pushed by the far right, but they were using them to further their agenda.

I welcome being corrected if I'm wrong about McConnell. Sorry, I can't even come up with other names right now. I'm under the cloud of insomnia right now.

[uponit7771]

40. 👍

[C_U_L8R]

3. The GOP has gained nothing in 4 years

And lost everything

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. There is one upside to trump

Everything he touches dies. He's killed the RW idiots, and most of the
republican party.
For that I am happy.

[moonscape]

18. I think he has done more damage to the

country than the Republican Party. They have shown in the end they will bond at any cost for power. 2024. if they are holding the House, which is pretty good chance, scares me.

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. SCOTUS and other judges happened, plus a lot of other things. The party may have taken damage, the

agenda not as much.

[C_U_L8R]

41. Indeed, the judges.

I was really referring more to Brand GOP. They are adrift.

[Tommymac]

5. Couldn't happen to a better group of liars.

It's not Trump...it's their BRAND!

[Blue Owl]

6. Blightfart News should help fracture the GOP

Nothing but brainless rabble-rousing...

[Dave in VA]

7. ...

[Skittles]

8. those people DO respresent your fucking "conservative values"

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BREITBART HELPED TO CREATE THAT MONSTER.

[Grokenstein]

32. I can't believe they don't/won't see that.

Trump is basically Breitbart in (semi-)human form, more so than the pig who founded it.

[uponit7771]

38. +1

[Thekaspervote]

9. Those that stick with dotard are looking at 74 million votes. What's amazing to me, why are

They not looking at the fact that he lost by 7 million plus votes. 74 million or no, it’s not wining!!

[Demovictory9]

10. they also ignore that Dems win the national vote but lose the presidency

[ProfessorGAC]

44. It's 59 Million Tops

I know that's still a lot, but Pew just released a poll that showed 79% of people who voted for him still approve of him.
Ipsos had a poll at 64%.
So a minimum of 15 million people that actually voted for the idiot now don't approve.
All it took was an attempt to overthrow the republic!

[captain queeg]

11. Oh this is too good

https://m.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. When does Frances Martel ever feel charitable?

Asking for a fiend.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Yeah, "promote values" Like this?

[demtenjeep]

17. they are involved

they can't hide from this shit

[Lasher]

21. Boo hoo, you sold your souls for a few federal judges.

And for a job at Breitbart. Boo hoo.

[paleotn]

22. What values???

Lying and thievery?

[Pepsidog]

28. My thoughts exactly. What values does he refer to ?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

23. deregulation, hoarding money and subjugation of women

What else?

[Klaralven]

24. Heretics are useful only if you can use them to establish an inquisition

[rickford66]

26. GOP not dead if we assume we won.

The wing nuts work every angle every day. We need a Stacey Abrams in every state.

[BobTheSubgenius]

29. If it took a decade to get to the small, squalid place of no values, you have wasted your life.

Your entire system of values (*spit*) is painful to read even a little of. It is the intellectual equivalent of burning rectal itch.

Please, go spend another decade polishing that turd. Better than actually affecting society and the body politic. Things are bad enough already.

[dchill]

30. "We have worked so hard to promote our values..."

So we've seen.

[TeamPooka]

31. They had "values?" I couldn't tell.

[Initech]

33. Oh you don't get to walk away from this, Breitbart.

You're a huge part of the problem and part of the reason why he got elected and why things got so bad. Plus you're responsible for breeding that Nazi scumbag piece of shit Steve Bannon. You're not getting off the hook because he turned on you, oh no!

[Demovictory9]

34. I'd forgotten that Bannon was afiliated with Breitbart

[lindysalsagal]

47. It was a lovely party, but it's over.

Reality has a way of ruining those drunk on their own importance.