GOP: We Will Literally Kill Our Base to Win in 2022
This Seth Meyers clip does a good job rounding up the GOP anti-vax lunacy which (along with the big lie) IS NOW A KEY PLANK in their platform. They are now literally running on “Don’t Get Vaccinated”. This goes beyond, “those crazy Republicans” into “WHAT the HOLY FUCK is going on?” territory.
Heather Cox Richardson addresses it:
Former FBI special agent, lawyer, and professor Asha Rangappa put this question to Twitter. “Seriously: What is the [Republicans’] endgame in trying to convince their own voters not to get the vaccine?” The most insightful answer, I thought, was that the Republican’s best hope for winning in 2022—aside from voter suppression—is to keep the culture wars hot, even if it means causing illness and death.
The Republican Party continues to move to the right. During his time in office, the former president put his supporters into office at the level of the state parties, a move that is paying off as they purge from their midst those unwilling to follow Trump. Today, in Michigan, the Republican Party chair who had criticized Trump, Jason Cabel Roe, resigned.
We’ll be living with the aftermath of Trump and a radicalized Republican party for decades. Expecting the 2022 election to be a festival of absurd claims and disputed elections, certainly in the red states and possibly the rest. As for the anti vaxxers it troubles me not in the least. Full well realize everyone vaccinated would be for the best, but their intense stupidity has worn me down. Should note that I’ve been vaccinated months, and have yet to “magnatize”.
“Expecting the 2022 election to be a festival of absurd claims and disputed elections,”
Trump has certainly consolidated control over the GOP which is, frankly, something I didn’t see coming.
I guess between the culture wars, voter suppression, and the complicity of collaborationist Dems like Chris Coons – they see Trump as the path to continuing minority rule.
I think Trump’s influence will fade fast once Trump becomes incapacitated, whether by force of nature or or force of law. Trump will be weakened dramatically if his businesses are dismantled. Also, I don’t understand why the Dem Congress isn’t moving to disqualify Trump from office under the Fourteenth Amendment while they still hold the majority.
Easy. They might offend the mythical 500 centrist votes in South Bend.