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No one, Romney included, has advocated for the latter.
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The political party that I joined as a teenager was once banned in many parts of Canada, because the policies espoused by its leaders were considered radical, communist, pacifist, socialist. Leaders were jailed, run out of towns. Today, that party is in power or opposition in many provincial governments, despite the efforts of wealthy people in power to restrict both who was allowed to vote and who they were allowed to vote for.
And I’m not at all saying that’s what Romney is doing. But I feel like people close to Romney, folks allied politically with him, aren’t the kind of people that would allow a good crisis to go wasted. Religious fascists, racists, anti-democratic forces often try to use one person who doesn’t belong as an excuse to impose measures that exclude others. I’m worried that will happen again. Are my fears unfounded?
If you’re trying to make a Martin Niemöller type of analogy there’s a reason his famous quote doesn’t start
“First, they came for the elected officials who obtained their offices through fraud and whose own constituents were demanding their resignations…”
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Well, your original comment was saying that Santos deserves to be in congress because he won his election, and that it’s not cool for people to say he doesn’t belong (because telling someone who willfully misled the electorate they don’t belong is somehow the same thing as telling a woman or minority they don’t belong).
Whether or not the electorate could have reasonably known Santos was lying about his background and campaign finances before the election is beside the point. It’s not like the slate gets wiped clean after the election. The past still matters, whether word got out there or not.
It’s not about Romney either. He isn’t even on the committee that will ultimately decide whether Santos stays or goes. The idea that Romney has some sort of control over Santos’ future is laughable - have you seen how the GOP operates these days? All he can do is express his opinion, the sort of freedom of speech that is fair game in a democracy. What makes it news is one Republican telling it to another.
The other issue is that the voters don’t have the ability to remove Santos. It really is down to Republicans to boot this guy.
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That’s a very good point. What are the odds?
It seems like a good time to point out that this topic isn’t about any one mutant, just a pair of non-mutant asshats, and to remember that that’s the topic here.
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The people in power in the GOP are very much accepting that their guy got in by fraud to his seat. They are the ones who are not looking at how Santos got elected or who give two shits about him getting in BY FRAUD. They want him there, in a purple district, because they know he (or any other extremist) can’t win that seat legitimately.
so… again, Romney is not wrong here.
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The strategy for the Democrats should be to force every single Republican congressperson in a purple district to go on record about whether they think Santos should stay or go. If their answer isn’t a firm “go” then they should blast that from every billboard, TV and radio station, and online advertising spot. If they can hitch Santos to those people, it can only help their chances.
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On the one hand, Mitt you caused this dumpster fire as much as the rest of your party.
On the other, who knew the old man was a Radiohead fan? Did he follow up with calling him a weirdo, a creep, and ask what the hell he’s doing there?
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