Use to be, the Republican Party stood up for law and order and American patriotism.
Not anymore.
Use to be, mostly Southern KKK type White Nationals sought to destroy the American Dream and its liberal “justice for all”.
They still do.
Something has changed and it IS the Republican Party.
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As a whole, the party has evolved BACKWARDS, away from what it was, and has gone to the “dark side” of those “good old” White Nationalist boys – and now girls.
We can easily interpret GOP actions as being an all-out power play (coup) from the most rightwing top of that Old Boy network which - and only by its sheer wealth - has been able to survive even as an abomination.
Neither these true-life fascists at the top nor most of their followers have ever been anything other than COWARDS. I remember the days as a young Northerner in the South when I was frequently acted upon quite aggressively, perhaps for my long hair.
But ONE thing was always common, these - we used to call them “rednecks” - were brave ONLY in numbers or behind your back. They would shoot you from a car, or a window, and only attack directly if they had superior numbers.
I have honestly found this weakness to be true in general of the White Nationalist mentality - thirty of them could “lynch” a man or drag him behind their cars, or drive-by a neighborhood in their big trucks and shoot everything - in the darkest of night.
I see the SAME in today’s Republican Party. Gross cowardice, the unwillingness to act reasonably, hiding in numbers. Doxing government employees for doing their jobs?
It seems apparent and urgent that if we want the America we have always loved and cherished:
We MUST confront and disable this dark element squirming inside today’s Republican Party.
We MUST INVESTIGATE Jan6 conspiracy and PROSECUTE the perpetrators – In this BUNCH, I promise - you will find that old, evil essence of White Nationalism.
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In reality, empathy and sympathy for the Jan6 rioters are in order, as they were as DUPED as the rest of us by over-active thyroids on the RIGHT.
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