The common thread in these sorts of censure resolutions is a party establishment that was not elected by the mass of its state's voters attacking a public official who was. https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1358166738047746052 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Of course they were elected. Indirectly, sure, but still elected. Last I checked, I get a ballot to elect my local committeemen.
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Replying to @tkdylan
A very, very small percentage of Republican voters participate in that process, or even know how to.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
“The future belongs to those who show up.” Less than half of Americans vote in midterms. Does that make most Governors illegitimate?
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Replying to @tkdylan
If a governor's entire argument is that he represents the overwhelming majority of the electorate of his state, it matters if he's making that argument against somebody elected by a whole helluva lot more people in his state party.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
No. He represents The People™. And committeemen represent The Party™. Who said anything about overwhelming?
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Replying to @tkdylan
The very first line purports to use Trump's election to have the committee speak on behalf of an overwhelming majority.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Which is stupid, but so is the argument that committeemen are unelected.
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Replying to @tkdylan
Most of the people writing these rage manifestos would hold elected offices if they could win them.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
No statewide Republican official in Wyoming or South Dakota would win anything but the most gerrymandered House district in New York or California.
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Not sure what that has to do with this, but some of the Rs who actually win House seats in upstate NY & inland CA are rather more strident than, say, John Thune.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I’m saying that is a stupid numbers game, which the Wyoming GOP is playing, sure, but so are you. That doesn’t actually deny committeemen an electoral mandate just because the pool is smaller.
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Replying to @tkdylan
The numbers game is 100% of their argument. They can't invoke party loyalty, while they are attacking a fellow R.
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