They are stuck with their primary election voters. Some Republicans are in denial.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday laid bare the reality that the Wisconsin Court is political and partisan. It is divided 4-3, with "Republican" judges having the majority. It is the state court that came closest to bowing to GOP pressure to overturn the 2020 election to allow a GOP-majority legislature substitute Trump electors. It is the court that permits the nation's most partisan gerrymandering, which turns a 50-50 electorate into a Republican super-majority in the legislature. Most salient in last Tuesday's election was the issue of abortion. The current court is letting stand a 1849 law that places a near-total ban on abortion in Wisconsin, including in cases of rape and incest. The battle-lines were clear. One candidate, openly supported by Democrats and abortion-rights groups, would vote to restore abortion rights in Wisconsin. The other candidate, openly supported by Republicans and anti-abortion groups, would maintain the 1849 law. The voters supported Janet Protasiewicz, the Democrat.
Dane County, which is where the University of Wisconsin's flagship campus is at, about 50,000 students are enrolled there. And in Dane County, 82% of those votes went for the radical. This is years of liberal indoctrination coming home to roost.
He tweeted a chart, proving the problem was young voters:
He had a solution: Stop some of them from voting. He tweeted: "The voting age should be the same as the drinking age. Certainly not younger."
Ann Coulter is not a politician. She is a conservative provocateur, which allows her to tell fellow-Republicans what they don't want to confront. Her profession is saying things people don't like to hear. She says the problem isn't that the voters aren't voting their interests. The problem is that they are doing so. She tweeted:
Republicans are teaching a new generation of voters that Republicans are out of touch with the realities of life for young adults. It isn't that college students hear about Marxism in an economic class. It isn't that they meet people from other ethnicities and backgrounds and become infected with dangerous ideas. Or it isn't simply that. A better explanation is that GOP policies on climate, on minimum wages, on student loans, and especially on reproductive rights are losers for them. Young people care about access to abortion. They grew up with contraception being freely available. Abortion was a safety net that would be there in the case of mishap. And now it is gone or at risk. Of course, they notice and care.
Republicans will lose general elections they could win until they figure out that "It's the abortion, stupid."
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Republicans may be losing support for their radical positions, but they have a solution: get rid of their opponents. Wisconsin Republicans are already talking about impeaching Janet Protasiewicz.
Meanwhile, Tennessee House Republicans just expelled two Democrats for speaking out of turn. They were young, Black and valued children’s lives over guns – totally incompatible with Republican values.
The precedent was set when House Republicans, including our own Cliff Bentz, tried to disenfranchise the voters of various states because they didn’t like the 2020 election results. They’ve made their position clear: You don’t need a government of the people, by the people and for the people; you’ve got us.
Well said. Did you ever think you'd find yourself in at least partial agreement with Coulter?
However, I don't think Republicans will abandon pro-misogyny any more than homophobia, bigotry or mass murder. Yesterday's outrage in TN proves that whatever misgivings "good" Republicans may have they will continue to follow the extremists into the abyss.
Not a peep from Hutchison, De Santis, Haley, or any of the others.
I remember my history class about the fall of Czar Nicholas II of Russia to the Bolsheviks. A small, tightly organized subset of the Russian population toppled the monarchy and installed an authoritarian government. We saw a similar event occur in Germany with the rise of the Nazis and Hitler. The past does not repeat itself, it echos loudly in my ears at the moment.
As a country, we've entered a dark and dangerous time in our nation. To me, it is not obvious nor likely we will be able to wrest the Gerrymandered control from the GOP, allowing the voices of the majority to prevail. Whether concerted activism bring results on the issues of gun control or opposition to abortion bans remains to be seen on election day. At the moment we have the ballot box so educate yourself on the issues and remember to vote!
We have a republic if we are able to keep it.
- Ben Franklin
Every day the GQP is busy thinking of new ways to prevent eligible American citizens from voting. What they want is government by and for white, male Christians. Everyone else can go you know where.
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