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dlk

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4. There is nothing worth saving with today's GOP

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 12:55 PM

Feb 2021

Wishful thinking, woulda, coulda, shoulda, is harmful. They live in an alternate reality and have stopped believing in the rule of law and in democracy, itself; and as they showed the world in January 6th, they are dangerous, very, very dangerous. Let’s not be naive.

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Stop trying to save the GOP. It's hopeless. - by Jennifer Rubin [View all] DonViejo Feb 2021 OP

It's all the GOP , every one of them. Pantagruel Feb 2021 #1

Republicans need only to appeal to their wealthy contributors and the voters they ooky Feb 2021 #2

Clearly, instigating a riot that results in the death and injury.... TheRealNorth Feb 2021 #3

There is nothing worth saving with today's GOP dlk Feb 2021 #4

I cannot name a good Republican president since Eisenhower. Lonestarblue Feb 2021 #5

"Stir up hatred, take rights away from women, minorities robbob Feb 2021 #13

GQP. Greedy Qooqy Party. RepubliQons. Qonservatives. Let them keep tRump. He is a spent force Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #6

She doesn't realize it raising2moredems Feb 2021 #14

January exception? I call BS WestMichRad Feb 2021 #7

KnR Hekate Feb 2021 #8

Someday bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #9

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2021 #10

The GQP has a tradition of seeking power above all else. Aussie105 Feb 2021 #11

Trump has no soul and they are Zombies looking to make more Zombies. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #12

I don't want to "save" the GOP I just fear that, like the cockroach, they will survive any crisis to Nitram Feb 2021 #15

Putin smiles. badboy67 Feb 2021 #16

"...immune to facts and bereft of decency... " is a wonderful turn of phrase. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #17

It's a Qult durablend Feb 2021 #18