Could just be a mistake in the Wikipedia article then. Either way they’ve been speaking out against Trump’s actions since well before the coronavirus debacle.
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Dear Republicans: Fuck you. Every single one of you. You did this to America.
Forty-plus years of Norquist Doctrine, deregulation, hate-spewing, fear-mongering, jerrymandering, anti-intellectualism, and general sociopathic behavior have culminated in the perfect embodiment of the Republican Party in semi-human form: Donald Trump. You supported Fox News. You supported slashing environmental protections. You supported voter suppression. You supported homophobia and violence against minorities. You supported tax cuts for the wealthy and destroyed everyone else’s access to affordable health care. You selected increasingly dim-witted and outright criminal individuals to lead your Party.
This is what you get for your greedy, selfish, evil policies. You don’t get to pretend this isn’t your fault. If you have even the slightest shred of conscience, you will apologize for your participation in the most corrupt organization on the face of the planet,beg forgiveness, and do your best to make amends.
But you won’t, will you? Because Republicans are incapable of admitting or even understanding that they have done something wrong.
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It’s a huge country with a lot of weird outliers in it. Absolutely some prior trump voters will abstain or vote D in Nov. Small group? Probably. Should we be chastising them publicly right now? Probably not.
And what is the benefit of chastising them, revenge?
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That was beautiful
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Of course, they were fine up until now, when their own well-being is threatened. When children were being put in concentration camps, that was fine. When the treasury was being looted and our allies overseas alienated, that was hunky dory. But now that GOP members might actually suffer, NOW it’s time to complain. Damned sociopaths, all of them.
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Absolutely. These guys are asshats – I mean, good grief, Mona Fucking Charen – but they’ve been against Trump from before 2016; his brand of crime boss populism is an existential threat to their old school neocon corporatist Reagan/Nixon/Bush structural asshattery.
There are many GOP voters who aren’t intrinsically assholes, and who might respond favorably to a message that they are not alone in wondering if they made a mistake in 2016, that others like them are considering changing their vote in 2020, and that it is OK to vote D, it doesn’t make you a traitor. I think that’s the target of the ads. If it is even slightly successful in this, then given how close the last election was this might have an effect…
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A small ray of hope in a torture dungeon is part of the torture.
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My sister, who is most definitely not stupid (politically naive, perhaps, even at 70) identifies as conservative. I asked her to write why she considers herself so. The answer I got was interesting. She’s a moderate liberal in practice, if not further left and doesn’t seem to know it. Not sure, but I think she’s left the Republican party (she’s in Kansas, so that would be a big deal). I do think she’s watched a wee too much Fox ‘news’ tho.
Also, about that screaming warnings…well that don’t work. What happens, what happened with my sister and me, was that I was screaming warnings and my sister felt personally attacked. Personally. Almost caused a rift between us as she had voted for Trump (the reason I think she watched too much Fox was because of her reaction to Hillary, someone I personally didn’t like but still thought of as at least competent.). She also voted for Obama, so there’s that.
So trust me, ranting at the opposite almost never works. It must be done gently, at least with family and loved ones.
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In fairness, the group Republicans for the Rule of Law is a coalition formed around a nucleus of Never Trumper Republicans that’s been trying to turn back the clock on their party for a couple of years now. As much as the GOP planted the seeds of their own destruction, I nevertheless wish them luck in getting through to the Cult of Trump, but suffice it to say I’m not holding my breath. Maybe if Goebbels & Friends turns on Hair Hitler it will begin to erode his base of support.
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Where the fuck were you 3 years ago? You knew what you were fucking buying.
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No doubt. But they’ll be independents, not the kind of right-wing ideologues who stayed with the Republican party this long.
Don’t get me wrong - I’m not exactly going to track down regretful Republicans to chastise them now that they have regrets as to Trump and wish to vote for a Democrat to make up for it. Sure, I’m prevented from doing so because none of the Trump voters I know even remotely fit into that category, but I doubt, even with a great deal of work, if I’d find such a beast.
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Boy, if that face wouldn’t inspire nightmares…
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And he’ll look good in comparison with Trump.
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No there are not. Try to defend the party. Name one good thing it’s been responsible for in the last fifty years.
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You are full of majesty, with all your consumate Vs…
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I applaud their anti-Trumpness. However, they are still Republicans and supported him, in the first place.
I will not forget - and neither will the rest of the world - that these people supported a madman who was fully unfit and unqualified for any office.
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I don’t see any way you can read my post and think that I am defending the Republican party. I’ve been a dues-paying, card-carrying Democrat longer than most people here have been alive (something for which people here sometimes give me stick). What I actually said was that “there are many GOP voters who aren’t intrinsically assholes”. Voters.
However, back to your challenge: one good thing? 50 years? You make it too easy. The EPA was established in late 1970, in the middle of Nixon’s first term.
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Oh, so you’ve seen this play before? Me too.
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I’m sorry to break this to you, but your sister does indeed sound very stupid.
I will say this: it appears more substantive than #walkaway.
But not by much.
I have a strategic quandary about giving attention to movements like this who do not have a high degree of transparency.
How do we know this isn’t 99% astroturf like #walkaway appears to be?
Should we care if it changes hearts and minds? (Yes!)
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