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Roland (CA->WA)'s avatar

“Republicans have become the party of obstruction . . . “

Republicans are the party of NO, as in “No change from the 1800s.“

Republicans are the party of Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott, craven self-serving pols who only care about lining their pockets, padding their resumes and making themselves look good on paper.

Republicans are the party of big business billionaires.

Republicans are the party of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is the man who let himself be used by Vladimir Putin to shake down the Ukrainian president, obstruct Congress on January 6, and much more. He is the single most corrupt president in US history, and I dare anyone to refute that statement.

Republicans are the party of racism.

Republicans are the party of sexism and misogyny.

Republicans are the party of fighting against gay and lesbian rights.

Republicans are the party of QAnon.

Republicans are the party of David Duke and the KKK.

Nine times out of 10 Republican

politicians are the ones investigated and indicted for corruption.

Republicans are the party of members of Congress who oppose the people’s election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Republicans are the party of the attack on Congress, the first time in our nation’s history that has ever happened.

Republicans are not the party of Lincoln anymore, that’s for sure.

What party affiliation would Lincoln have today? Where would he fit in?

Republicans are the party of voter suppression, because their inherent racism forces them to target non-white voters. When do you ever hear of Democratic state and county officials targeting mostly white Republican towns and districts to suppress votes?

Republicans are the party of self service over public service.

Republicans are the party of union busting, because broken unions and non-unionized work forces make it even easier for corporations to exploit their workers with impunity than they already do. Remember Wisconsin?

The Republican Party has become such a reactionary group of extremists, so radical and off-the-reservation, that Joe Biden, a center right politician, looks like Fidel Castro to them.

Donald Trump, a lifelong New York Democrat, joined the Republican Party before making his run for the presidency. Why? Why would he do that?

The best nationally known Republicans are no longer George Bush and his family, Dick Cheney (what is it about the name Dick?), John McCain, Mitt Romney, and John Boehner.

The best nationally known Republicans are now Donald Trump and his family, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now you can include Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.

If the Republican Party were not turning into an extremist and terrorist organization which looks more and more like the IRA and the apartheid South African National Party of F.W. de Klerk, it would be Larry Hogan on everybody’s lips, not Rafael Edward Cruz.

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Susan's avatar

Hard to embrace the perpetrators after Democracy being threatened of extinction for four years. It is such a relief to be able to breathe and to see a President working for the country and its citizens. It brings tears to my eyes. Thank you Heather for highlighting these moments. We need this for healing

My hope is Republicans will allow themselves to open to the possibility of embracing Democracy and denouncing self serving autocrats. I worked hard to defeat Susan Collins because of her inability to take a stand against the tax cuts for the millionaires, Justice Kavanaugh, etc. but now she takes a brave stand as Senator. I can applaud her for that. I pray with time we will be better able to work together. However as a psychotherapist who worked with trauma patients I know it takes a long time to heal. It will take me a while to recover from the last four years of watching our Democracy being replaced with fascism. It is moments of watching and hearing Biden wanting to work with Europe that lets me rest and breathe again.

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