GOP is starting a shift from Conservative ideology to an Authoritarian/Facist ideology. Simple as that really.
What is the intellectual justification for this? What is the defense beyond the raw politics of disenfranchisement?https://twitter.com/ap/status/809850721407475712 …
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@mattyglesias When you steal the car to sell it for parts, you don't care if it runs again.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AP I believe the quote you're looking for is "because we can and what are you going to do about it?" -
Trump proved that so many things we thought would make a pol radioactive (brazen lying, law-breaking) have not.
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and so political calculations change. Before: "I would like to [X] but I'll pay for it in the next election."
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now: "There's no downside to [X]." Raises q: were prior downsides a mass hallucination? Or has something changed?
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Your problem is trying to apply anything intellectual to
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you seriously thing that NC Republicans give a rip about intellectual justification? strictly a power grab
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@tylercurtain@AP i sat down with one of the republican state reps Thurs. he claimed Cooper is corrupt & must be stopped. -
The NC GOP live in a horrifying, phantasmatic world -- they yearn for a Jim Crow theocracy. It is shocking.
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honestly I think their belief is beside the point. They Marshall different "belief" at different times.
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the most consistent themes are restructuring rules/maps to maintain R control and marginalizing women/PoC.
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just as so many men who run amok have some narrative that hits certain tropes (not respected, not heard), their story means ∅.
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@mattyglesias@AP D's could try fighting to win in order to outlaw undemocratic practices. Polite doesn't win.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Winning. That's it. Winning at all costs.
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There's nothing intellectual about it.
@NCGOP is all about disenfranchisement.. Old white guys grabbing power.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Not intellectual at all, it's entirely visceral; a fascistic desire for one party rule
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@mattyglesias@AP The@NCGOP has abandoned all pretense of rule of law.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mattyglesias@AP don't worry, John Roberts said everything was fine a few years ago so this isn't happening.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AP I've heard exactly one conservative denounce this. Pretty pathetic.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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