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Beware Republicans bearing gifts

September 8, 2020 By Egberto Willies

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Kudos to Joan McCarter for reminding all of those enamored with all the Republican Operatives coming over to the Left supporting Joe Biden that they laid the foundation for Donald Trump. Remember, beware of what you are asking for as you just may get it.

It is important that we use these guys to get Biden elected and then immediately make sure Biden remembers that the values we are now fighting for are progressive values.


The cadre of never-Trumper Republicans just keeps growing. There’s the Lincoln Project. There’s Republican Voters Against Trump. There’s Right Side PAC. There’s 43 Alumni for Biden Super PAC. What do they have in common? They all helped build the Republican Party that chose Donald Trump. They all sat back—and even participated!—in the systematic push in the Republican Party toward white supremacy, toward authoritarianism, toward fascism. They also all have a vested interest in trying to make the nation forget that they’re responsible for this monster. We can’t let them.

They ignored the dog whistles of Ronald Reagan and his “law and order” campaigns. They pretended like they were just there for the fiscal conservatism. They didn’t worry at all about the illegal sale of arms to Iran for hostages, or the running of a secret war in Central America, in which their next president, George H.W. Bush, was neck-deep. They were there when George W. Bush lied the nation into a disastrous war, when he and Dick Cheney broke the law and the Constitution with their warrantless surveillance of Americas. With torture. They were there while Bush and Cheney elevated voter suppression to an art.

They were there, helping John McCain along, when he chose right-wing extremist Sarah Palin as his running mate. They created the Tea Party and they were there while the Republican Party descended into full-on racism, fighting against every move made by President Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president. (Fighting against him largely because he’s Black.) They created the Federalist Society, the organization behind the takeover of the federal courts by Mitch McConnell and Trump.

They see the writing on the wall. Hell, even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is trying to weasel its way into influence among Democrats by endorsing 23 freshmen House Democrats in this fall’s elections.

And now they want rehabilitation. Now they want to be accepted back into polite company. Worse, now they want to make sure they stay relevant, that they can continue to get their consultants contracts and make their money and stay on the cocktail circuit in Washington, D.C. They’re cozying up to Joe Biden and Democrats because they want to stay in the game. They want to keep their tax cuts and their comfortable lives and to make sure they have access to a Biden administration and to a Democratic House and Senate.

And because they are Republicans, they think they can buy their way in without acknowledging or atoning for their complicity with Trump. They built that monster, and they’ve decided that the way to save their own skins is to pick up torches and pitchforks now and turn against him. We can’t help them. If they want to spend their own money on this, fine, but our money, our support, needs to go directly to Democrats.

What needs to happen is that this iteration of the Republican Party—including all those never-Trumpers who were happy to throw fuel on the fires of racism, of fascism for the past 40 years—this GOP needs to be destroyed. It needs to be defeated at the ballot box and ground into dust. Burned. The ground over it salted.

But we can have some fun while doing it:

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Filed Under: A Few Takes Tagged With: Joan McCarter, republicans, Rick Wilson

About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

Comments

  1. wzrd1 says

    September 8, 2020 at 3:09 PM

    I simply remind folks that fawn over the Lincoln Project (and a couple of others), the Allies allied with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany until the end of the war.
    Then, the Great Race for German Scientists began… And a bit of conflict… And a wall, which the Soviets made us pay for…
    Oh wait, they paid for that wall.
    Memory, is it the first thing to go or the second? I forget. For that matter, what’s the other thing to go?

    And some say that hyperbole is ineffective… 😉
    Not when it’s entirely accurate!

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