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By Connor Mannion July 13th, 2019, 6:50 pm
CNN host S.E. Cupp said the ongoing tension between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminds her a lot of the rise of the Tea Party during the Barack Obama presidency.
I have seen this movie before. It ends tragically, Cupp said in the open of S.E. Cupp Unfiltered Saturday.
The year was 2009 and growing American political movement called the Tea Party was catching hold. They were Republicans that were initially opposed to spending and the deficit, she continued. It eventually morphed into Republican infighting over, well, everything, producing a fringier, farther-right Republican Party and pushing moderates out the door.
Cupp then argued this all eventually resulted in the presidency of Donald Trump and his takeover of the Republican Party. She then played a clip of Trump attacking former House Speaker Paul Ryan, warning Democrats, if you are not careful this is your future.
Cupp then said Democrats shouldnt have their infighting devolve into a party split.
Dont make the same mistakes we did, she said. When the loudest voices in the room represent the fewest people, when majorities are steered to the farthest fringes, when moderates are blotted out by extremists that are shoving bold changes down the throats of all-Americans: beware, the end is nigh.
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https://www.mediaite.com/politics/s-e-cupp-says-democratic-infighting-recalls-tea-party-insurgency-i-have-seen-this-movie-before/
Atticus
(15,124 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Even if elected Democrats have said the same thing, it's important to tell Republican women to sit down and shut up. I wonder if the same standard applies to Republican women for choice.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)who on e introduced Trump at the "Faith and Freedom" breakfast---at his request.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)correct. She is correct. We have the beginnings of our own tea party aka the latte party.
Turin_C3PO
(14,047 posts)bent on destroying the country. Its good to have debate between sections of the party, I just wish it wasnt playing out in public, giving the Republicans ammunition.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)Would you have said the same of a male pundit?
Atticus
(15,124 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)This has to be THE first time I havent disagreed vehemently with her.
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)People like Mike Mulvaney.
Many RW nutjob judges
They all support Trump
etc., etc.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I saw her as somewhat of a gun nut, but more of the old style fiscally conservative, pro business republican. I never heard her give an opinion on hot button issues like abortion, LGBTQ rights and same sex marriage, being that she is youngish, my guess is that she is likely mostly ok with those changes.
The issue that I have with people like her, Meghan McCain and Meghan's late father is that when they had a chance to put an end to the nonsense that was taking place in their party, they chose to say nonsensical things instead of saying the direction their party was going was nuts. Now Trump owns her party and she has no recourse but to look longingly at democrats as the people that can help her get her party back.
GoCubsGo
(32,089 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 14, 2019, 02:31 PM - Edit history (1)
Hmmmmmm... Cupp and her ilk aren't worried about the Dems falling apart. They're drawing attention to it in hopes of attracting more Dems into the infighting. They're throwing gasoline on the fire under the guise of "warning" the Dems.
These people are not our friends.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)These people are not our friends, indeed. They may not like trumpft but they are secretly thrilled with all he's accoplishing for the republican party. In fact, he gives them cover, when he's gone they can say, ok, things back to normal now, and yet somehow they will proceed with all the same policies.
GoCubsGo
(32,089 posts)They helped foment all of the hatred that got us to this point. Their Frankenstein's monster is out of control, and they're fixating on Democratic squabbles, instead? Cupp, Rick Wilson, and the rest need to clean up their own houses before they worry about those of others. But, they won't, because their own shit don't stink.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)People like her, Jennifer Rubin, George Will and a number of others, plus business republicans want us to help them get their party back. They actually want us to beat the crap out of the current Republican Party over and over until that forces change within that party. The last thing that they want is to see is us fracture and weaken ourselves.
The issue that I have with them is they threw gasoline on the fire that was building within their party starting with the Clinton Administration. I don't expect them to behave more sanely in the future if they get their party back.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)fucking old and predictable.
ConnorMarc
(653 posts)Does anyone believes she wants to see Democrats succeed?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)She wants her old party back, at least the romantic version of it that is in her head. A number of other republicans or former republicans seem to earnestly feel the same way. They need us to help them by trashing the current Republican Party at the polls, so they don't want to see us weaker, at least not until we act as their enforcer and give them their old party back.
ConnorMarc
(653 posts)None of them are, from their leaders to their supporters.
Perhaps some of them are your friends and neighbors and even family members, but politically, they don't care about you or what you feel.
They only want to see their party in power, and they're willing to do and/or say anything to accomplish this.
This has been proven, time, and time, and time, and time again.
For decades now.
I only value their opinions as a base to know just how crazy and far gone they are.
That's it.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Once we have their party back to them, they will try to get rid of us.
GuyNamedNathan
(89 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If the Justice Democrats were some stealth-funded cutout with the full-throated connivance of a constellation of media outlets, including several 24-7 broadcast and cable channels, then she might have a point. As itis, this sounds like nothing so much as buyer's sort-of remorse. Unimpressed with Cupp's crocodile concern.