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When Republicans tell you who they are, believe them
We are the Christian Taliban and we will not stop until The Handmaids Tale is a reality, and even worse than that.
Vincent James
That is precisely what we intend to do…is to impose Christian law on everyone in the United States of America.
Nick Fuentes
No reasonable person is going to argue that these ambulatory freak shows are the most influential voices of the GOP. But there are enough of them to make you wonder if Republicans are tolerating them because they serve the party’s purpose.
The answer to that question would be an unqualified “YES!”
Though there are many in the GOP who cringe at the thought of fringe characters acting out on the knife’s edge of reality, they tolerate the nut cases because they’re helping the party move toward their ultimate goal. That, of course, is a permanent Republican majority that no democratic process will be able to overturn.
The ends justifies the means, no?
Perhaps down the road the crazies will be shunted off to the hinterlands or psych wards and permanently put on Thorazine drips, but for now the Christian Taliban and the rest of the Far-Right fringe element perform a useful service. They can help to attract votes from Evangelicals, and it they get too crazy, the GOP can always “disavow” them.
And if there’s one person Republicans should probably disavow yesterday, it’s the one guy who does word salads with more alacrity than Donald Trump.
I declare this July 4th, 2022, to be a declaration of independence against the alien force on this planet today waging war against our humans and biology and the very future that is attempting to exterminate the majority and force the minority that’s left to merge with AI computers and become cyborg slaves of Satan.
There’s one group of (now former) Republicans I’m becoming increasingly enamored with, and not just for their willingness to skewer Donald Trump and the rest of his drooling yes men.
The Lincoln Project (LP) has evolved from a collection of dissident Republicans campaign strategists and Presidential advisors to a movement of “dedicated Americans protecting democracy.” At least they’re trying to. The Lincoln Project leadership are former GOP activists who know how the game is played from that side. They’ve seen their party deteriorate and get hijacked by those with no moral fiber and even fewer convictions save for a lust for power.
Donald Trump has been one of LP’s biggest targets, if only because he’s made himself impossible to miss. LP began with two primary objectives. The first was the defeat of Donald Trump at the ballot box. The second was the defeat of Trumpism as a political force. Accomplishing the first proved to be the easier of the two. Eradicating Trumpism isn’t going to happen overnight, because 72 million cult members voted for Trump for a reason- and it wasn’t his good looks.
Today, LP seeks to hold “accountable those who would violate their oaths to the Constitution and would put others before Americans.”
LP has had their share of growing pains, especially involving co-founder John Weaver, who eventually left the group over sexual misconduct charges. Several other founding members left in the wake of the Weaver scandal, but LP seems to have survived and moved on.
As of Dec. 31, [2020] the Lincoln Project had raised more than $18 million, but had spent very little of it on independent expenditures beyond the two Georgia U.S. Senate runoff elections that were decided on Jan. 5, 2021. Federal Election Commission records show that the group has spent more than $34,000 combined on ads against Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Rand Paul, who all have challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election. It spent another $15,000 against Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
The Lincoln Project, which is perhaps best known for producing viral digital ads, also took credit for organizing a widely criticized stunt in which several people posed as white nationalists carrying tiki torches at an October 2021 campaign rally for Republican Glenn Youngkin, who was running for governor of Virginia at the time.
“Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it,” the group said in an Oct. 29 statement. That was a reference to an August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned violent and resulted in one death.
Youngkin went on to defeat his gubernatorial opponent, Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
Since its founding, LP has yet to experience much success in swaying voter opinion, but it’s raised awareness. LP hasn’t let a less-than-stellar track record at the ballot box dampen its enthusiasm or alter its mission. The group has continued to pound away at the remnants of Trumpism in the hopes of rendering it impotent and meaningless. It’s a tough road.
That goal is a ways off, because Donald Trump has poisoned the federal government and much of the federal judiciary with appointees at lower levels who are True Believers.
And then there’s the Supreme Court, which Trump, in four short years, succeeded in stacking with a solid 6-3 Conservative majority. Decisions such as Dobbs v. Jackson that were handed down in the last week of the Court’s most recent term don’t bode well for what’s to come in the near future.
And what if Trump decides to run in 2024? What if Trumpism is still a force to be reckoned with then? Will American democracy be able to survive what will surely be a shock to the system as Trump wreaks havoc, particularly if he loses?
It’s then we might need the Lincoln Project and groups like it, groups comprised of former Republicans who’ve decided to place country over party.
Or will the ambulatory freak shows and hyper-Christian nutjobs of the American Taliban finally get their wish and destroy America for their Gilead they so fervently wish for? Do we really want to take the chance that the America envisioned by Vincent James and Nick Fuentes will become a reality?
Oh…and to respond to Lauren Witzke, America is NOT a Christian nation. And you do NOT have the right to legislate your beliefs upon me or anyone else. You may, however, go fornicate thyself.
When Republicans tell you who they are, believe them…and don’t vote for them.
