Remember when everyone said that Trump would never win? Remember when they said he would "mellow out" once he was inaugurated? Remember how they said he would fade away when he lost?Business Insider - Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville violated federal transparency law by failing to properly disclose stock transactions worth up to $3.56 million
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Correction. Since the 1960sRemember when everyone said that Trump would never win? Remember when they said he would "mellow out" once he was inaugurated? Remember how they said he would fade away when he lost?
The trend was always clear - Trump was simply the right personality at the right time to embody what had already been happening to the GOP since the 80's. Like everything he's ever done, Trump just slapped his name on something that already existed. The GOP is unflinchingly The Party of Trumpism now, DeSantis, Gaetz, Greene, Tuberville, Hawley: They're the future. People like Vance know this, which is why they're going all in at the Golden Cheeto Alter.
The rest of the country (specifically Centrists) HAVE to wake up and get with the program. Heads are in the sand, conducting business as usual as if everything is back to normal. But it isn't. It's only getting worse. And if we don't take radical action in the next year, it may be too late to turn away from the brink.
I always forget that Goldwater's run predated the Moral Majority by so much. I feel like the change really became irrevocable by the time that Falwell and co. took power over the party in the 80's, but yeah, the roots definitely stretch back to the McCarthy era.Correction. Since the 1960s
During a House Rules Committee meeting on Tuesday night, Congressman Jamie Raskin (D- MD) directly confronted Congressman Andrew Clyde (R- GA) on his comments about January 6th after testimony from four Capitol Police officers.
Clyde rather infamously said in May that if you looked at footage from January 6 without knowing what it was, “you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
The fiery 10-minute back-and-forth kicked off with Raskin asking Clyde if he watched the testimony from those Capitol Police officers on the harrowing events of January 6th.
Clyde objected and said, “Let’s stick to the amendment.”
Raskin kept pressing him on whether he watched the testimony.
Clyde said, “It’s absolutely irrelevant to this amendment right here.”
“He refuses to say whether or not he heard the Capitol officers who risked their lives and have experienced traumatic medical injuries,” Raskin said. “That’s his prerogative.”
He went on to bring up how the “tourist” comparison was flat-out rejected by one of those officers.
“Do you stand by your statement that they were tourists?” Raskin asked.
“Quote my exact statement, not your interpretation of my statement,” Clyde said.
Raskin read Clyde’s comment: “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures. You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
“Those are your words,” Raskin said.
“And I stand by that exact statement as I said it,” Clyde responded.
Raskin again brought up the officers who “battl[ed] that medieval mob” and if he really thinks they were fighting tourists.
“That statement did not say that those people were tourists,” Clyde responded.
“I have read your statement once,” Raskin said as they went back and forth. “Lots of people online believed your statement that it was a normal tourist visit.”
I always forget that Goldwater's run predated the Moral Majority by so much. I feel like the change really became irrevocable by the time that Falwell and co. took power over the party in the 80's, but yeah, the roots definitely stretch back to the McCarthy era.
Barry Goldwater in 1994 as quoted by John Dean said:Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
GOLDWATER VOWS TO FIGHT TACTICS OF 'NEW RIGHT' (Published 1981)Barry Goldwater in 1981 said:The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are NOT using their religious clout with WISDOM. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are?... I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism."
Gay rights aside, Goldwater is doing lots more to drive would-be disciples nuts. In 1992 he backed a Democrat for Congress over a Christian conservative Republican (his candidate, Karan English, won), and has been applying the full force of his cantankerous personality to frequent denunciations of the religious right and occasional defenses of Bill Clinton – calling a press conference recently to urge Republican critics of Whitewater to "get off his back and let him be president."
Yeah, I was referencing Goldwater's famous quote about Falwell and co. taking over the GOP. His loss is frequently treated as the last stand of traditional conservatism before it was overtaken by the evangelical loons.Goldwater would be horrified by what's going on right now, but Nixon??? Not so much. IIRC, Barry's grandson was gay and Goldwater's stance on banning and chasing down gays in the military was basically "the people who think this is a good idea are a bunch of GD idiots". While Goldwater and I are ideologically on opposite ends of the economic policy spectrum, his stance on civil liberties, at least in this case, was decades ahead of more "liberal" democrats.
EDIT: and by "decades", I mean a half of a century.
Yeah, I was referencing Goldwater's famous quote about Falwell and co. taking over the GOP. His loss is frequently treated as the last stand of traditional conservatism before it was overtaken by the evangelical loons.
His attempts to have it both ways, is somehow even worse. What a garbage person.
Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life.
“I was strongly against getting the vaccine,” Barker said through labored breathing. “Just because we’re a strong conservative family.”
In the U.S., many people who identify as politically and socially conservative have been more reluctant to be vaccinated — so much so that in Missouri, faith leaders have joined the effort to encourage shots. Meanwhile, the summer outbreak is so alarming that Democratic-led St. Louis city and county and Kansas City have reinstated mask mandates.