Glad to see Justin Amash has left the Freedom Caucus and the GOP. He remarked:
“I’m asking you to believe that we can do better than this two-party system - and to work toward it. If we continue to take America for granted, we will lose it.”
Fully agree. Republicans have won two elections despite losing the popular vote. In my mind, they’re seeing popular opinion isn’t on their side and are desperate to seize and hold onto power.
Senator Jeff Flake’s Reality Check For Republicans is a great listen. Jeff Flake seems the kind of Republican who regularly takes a step back from the party line (and the kind of shit Fox News bleats on and on about) to think about the big picture.
This article is fantastic, and enlightening: Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas.
The Republican Party isn’t undergoing some sort of reckoning over what it believes; his branch of the Republican Party has taken control. Most troubling, perhaps, is that rather than reassert themselves, the moderate Republicans have almost all rolled over entirely.
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And yet as surprising as this all has been, it’s also the natural outgrowth of 30 years of Republican pandering to the lowest common denominator in American politics.