They will proudly and defiantly act against their own best interests, as long as it means pissing off liberals. Anything else is viewed as weakness.

In pissing liberals off. I just pity them, they don't understand their actions
are hurting themselves. If anything I am embarrassed for them and hope
they will understand once the virus touches them.

Ever since Reagan, moderate or reasonable republicans started leaving the party and joining with the more conservative elements of the democratic party. Our big tent philosophy gave them a space the GOP wouldn't. Unfortunately, that left the extreme right left over to run the party. So we can't have reasonable debates on policy issues. Instead we have a body politic that has to deal with conspiracy theories and russian propaganda.

When the Lincoln Project is done, I'd wish they'd throw out the RWNJ and take the party back so that the democratic party can have reasonable debates with reasonable people about real issues.

Normal people left the republicon party, which moved it to become the crackpot-crazy right. The ones who joined the Democratic party haven't changed their position to the left, so that has moved the Democratic party away from the left where it belongs.

The end result is that we end up appearing unorganized and arguing amongst ourselves. With a reformed GOP this country could have real national debates about real issues and policies, not birther nonsense.

turning out to be difficult to dislodge. In my state we have Congressman Paul Gosar who often runs unchallenged, election after election. It's the opinion of many political experts that there is no point in running against Gosar because he will continue to win as long as he runs. There are many others. Andy Biggs might be one. Louie Gohmert might be an example too. No matter how little they accomplish for their districts, no matter how offensive or ineffectual, they get returned to office.

Have created a political version of "Moore's Law" where the GOP gets twice as extreme every election cycle.

when they ran crazies like "Teenage Witch ODonnell", it really seemed like they were trying to see what it would take to get a totally-unqualified fool to win. Between some of the ballot measures, teabaggers, nutty candidates, and the unverifiable touchscreen machines, it's like the republicons were calibrating the stealing machinery.

So we ended up with tRump. I think the backlash and outrage was underestimated, so we gained ground in 2018. But even then, the Blue Wave should have been even more of a tsunami. Republicons still managed to steal the FL and GA governorships, and I'm not sure I believe the legitimacy of Skeletor Rick Scott either.

If she went on TV and said Americans should, under any circumstance, avoid jamming conductive metal objects into live wall sockets, the national I.Q. would quattuordecuple overnight. It would be well worth the nationwide lingering smell of burning back hair.

... created to advance the "conservative movement" but instead feeds the reactionary movement that replaced it.

I'm sure Kamala Harris can handily beat Ted Nugent in 2024.

Especially when he picks Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Marsha Blackman into the mix also. Batshit crazy!

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comments of their own, re-title it for click bait - and worst of all, fail to link to the actual original piece.

To me, that's theft.

Here is the link to the original work - which is what should have been posted in the first place: https://theweek.com/articles/929197/republican-problem-no-knows-how-solve

over the last 3 decades for nearly every level of the party. They spout RW dogma and conspiracy theory as if it was proven fact. I watched the GOP in NC the morph from Reaganite optimism to Falwellist denial and vitriol. Our local school board and county commissions echoed the same changes. When I visited and later moved to western Montana I saw the same changes. My sister in Spokane has seen the same. Where once there was cooperation however grudging we now see absolutism and accusation.

I had NC neighbors who used to be able to speak about things we disagreed on turn into the kind of zealots who could only vehemently repeat party dogma. In Trump's era, I have seen the same social chasm divide the towns and communities here in Montana.

IMO the conservative Right-wing machine has much to answer for including the entire COVID-19 death and disaster. They put this process in motion and sealed it against the possibility that important real events and advice could bring responsible people to consider changing course in the face of the evidence. There are NO responsible GOP members in any office at any level. They resemble the political infrastructure of East Germany before the wall fell. They only relate to the world as the party officially announces is the correct way. They lack the capacity to consider any other view and rail against informed dissent as if it was an alien religion.

is a lot of people that can cause a lot of trouble. A Trump loss will not win one GOP Trump voter over to a Biden voter. Democrats Moderates and Independents have to be as vigilant and motivated as the Trump voter in every single local city state and federal election. If we don't 2024 will be Trump11. These people are die hard believers.

every repug candidate for president will have to walk to the podium and fire his gun into the air. It will be a requirement.

Just look at the Senate. It amplifies the small state/ultra right power base. It's replicated at the state level where rural areas that tend to back ultra conservative candidates who don't compromise and are guided by just a few issues (taxes/abortion) dominate state legislatures. The Tea Party and Republican efforts to win state level election back in the 90s left us with Gerrymandered districts that largely represent rural areas that contribute little in the way of tax revenue and represent smaller and smaller portions of the population since these areas tend to have declining business prospects and therefore have trouble attracting/retaining younger folks (probably doesn't help these areas largely oppose immigration).

Dems would be smart if they started limiting how much tax revenue filters out of the cities and surrounding suburban areas into the rural areas. It's probably one of the reasons local taxes are so high in "blue" areas; they have to raise local taxes to counteract the net loss on the state and federal levels.

Where nothing matters other than "owning the libs."

Cue Lincoln Project and Never Trumpers. They have done a great service to Democrats by moving us more to the center. Why? To cut this weirdo white nationalist trump cult out like a cancerous tumor. Under normal times I would be a drive the liberal base type. But these are not normal times.

In my state the primary just finished has the Repub nominee for Governor a police chief from the town of Republic (pop. 1,100). His claim to fame was his avowed non compliance with the Governor's Covid19 orders, and refusal to enforce State gun legislation passed by a 60+ vote by Citizen Initiative in 2018. Just nuts.