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Commentary
CPAC proves that the GOP isn’t there any more. Just the cult of Trump.
The Republican Party is against everything and in favor of nothing. All it stands for now is yelling ‘no’ at everybody else, and Trump has become the golden idol that conservatives will follow. Literally.
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Commentary
The GOP leader in the House is pretending that the party isn’t at war with itself
The Republican Party can’t be both the party of reality and unreality. Yet, current House Leader Kevin McCarthy is pretending it can be.
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Politics
Republicans across the nation are fleeing the party as GOP leaders double down on Trump
Immediately after the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol, the GOP lost 10,000 registered party members. More than half of congressional Republicans voted to block the certification of their votes.
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Commentary
The religious right’s allegiance to Trump may cost them a price too high to pay
Now that it’s essentially an arm of the Republican Party, the religious right may have a hard time keeping younger believers & recruiting new members to their politicized churches.
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Commentary
The Electoral College is now the weak link in American democracy
The Electoral College tally ultimately decides the President. In the process, it screwed LGBTQ rights twice in the last 20 years – and it was almost close enough for a third time, too.
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Commentary
Is the Democratic Party heading straight into a looming midterm disaster?
Ghosts of midterm’s past have not seemed to haunt Democrat leaders in the present into effectively planning for the future. Will they avoid repeating their mistakes?
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News (USA)
Schools superintendent said “God” told him being gay is a “choice.” Now he claims he was “set up.”
He repeatedly said that being LGBTQ is “a personal choice,” but now he says he “was set up as a political pawn.”
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News (USA)
GOP publishes jawdropping claim Trump has “taken unprecedented steps” to protect LGBTQ people
The Trump administration has been the most viciously anti-LGBTQ in the nation’s history.
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News (USA)
Iowa Republicans give up on removing transgender people from state’s civil rights protections
A Republican leader announced that he was killing the proposed bill that would have paved the way for Iowa to stop providing protections and medical care to trans people.
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Bias Watch
Republican leader who used slur pushed to resign, but won’t go quietly
This Delaware Republican’s claim that “f***ots cannot handle reality” – because he couldn’t post a video of a mass shooting to Facebook – has even alienated most of his fellow conservatives.