Occurs to me that its simple self preservation - any republican who sticks their head above the parapet risks getting primaried at the next opportunity, for sure.
I don't think claims that the election are rigged lead to lower participation at all. In fact Trump won in 2016 while repeatedly claiming the election was rigged. An upset and angry base is (IMO) more likely to vote. Both out of a desire to 'do something' and as an attempt to try and prove it's rigged.
Idk. Lots of screenshots of trump & Qanon people saying they’re going to boycott the Georgia election in protest at the riggedness of it all. Why turn out if you know soros is going to delete your vote. No idea how common that is though.
I suppose we'll have some data on it in a few weeks. I don't really think anything said on Twitter proves much either way.
Whatever happens next there will be a reckoning, and those deemed unworthy will be primaried. Gonna be bleak as fuck
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You may very well be right. However, the victory over Trump in Georgia has demonstrated to people that it is possible to beat the Republicans there. Hopefully that can be used to motivate people to come out and make their votes count again.
deciphering from legalese; "stop wasting my fucking time".
Sure, but that's why it wouldn't work this time.
Yep, and on a point of procedure, the SC chooses which cases it will hear. It receives petitions for thousands of cases a year and only hears a small fraction of them. These cases won't even be heard, let alone voted for.
absolutely. It doesn't stand even the slightest chance of being heard - simply because the bar is a constitutional one, and is therefore set very high indeed.
That's exactly the situation. They are simply terrified of Trump's base, who are like nothing they have ever really encountered before
they are very much like the Tea Party lot tbf. In fact, they are the Tea Party lot.
More a development of them, ideologica;lly - but what I mean the difference to be, is that the Tea Party was built up and around from a congressional caucus. The Trumpist were from no such place. they were a massive explosion that came 100% from the grassroots. Plus, in terms of their energy, dynamism and ruthless, ferocious intolerance of any and all dissent from their credo, they are way ahead of the Tea party. Traditional GOP legislators weren't ever actually that shit-scared of the vengeance of the Tea Party crowd.
The dynamic changes now that Trump is a loser, though. Much less to be scared of from a LOSER.
The Tea Party deliberately targeted challenging Republican primaries that they did not feel were aligned with their politics. They pushed Cantor out for Boehner, and Boeher out for Ryan, GOP legislators certainly were afraid of being out flanked from their right by Tea Party candidates.
It tiik me a few seconds to parse it into something, tooI've just been staring at the word "unpled", thinking I was about to learn a new verb and wondering what it means to unple something.
I googled it before I realised it's un-pled, as in 'has not been pled'.
Dickhead.
sure, but I'm talking about a difference in degree and scale, rather than kind. The Trumpists make the Tea Party look like the corinthian casuals.
Misled is even better, cos it's a word that actually does what it means.It tiik me a few seconds to parse it into something, too
It misles?
No, it did misle.
