The GOP can't leave MAGA -- "Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party"

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The GOP can't leave MAGA — "Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party"
An ex-MAGA activist warns "no civic savior is coming" as Donald Trump's cognitive decline becomes undeniable

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED MARCH 11, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) What if Donald Trump defeats President Biden and takes control of the White House in 2025? He has already announced his plans to become the country’s first dictator, and to launch a reign of terror and revenge against his so-called enemies. As detailed in documents such as Project 2025, Agenda 47, and elsewhere, the infrastructure is being created right now to put Trump's neofascist plans to end multiracial pluralistic democracy in effect on “day one." The so-called resistance will not have the courtesy of ramping up or mobilizing to stop Dictator Trump’s onslaught. It will be a “shock and awe” campaign visited upon the American people.

....(snip)....

In an attempt to make better sense of Donald Trump’s obvious cognitive challenges and related behavior in the context of the country’s democracy crisis and the 2024 election, and what may happen next, I recently asked a range of experts for their thoughts and suggestions.

Norm Ornstein is emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and contributing editor for the Atlantic. He is also co-author of the bestselling book "One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported."

..... If this were a healthy democracy, we would have a healthy Supreme Court. We don’t. It is corrupt and not to be trusted when it comes to Trump. If this were a healthy democracy, we would have a press corps that would put a spotlight on what is real and not “both sides” everything while focusing on the horse race instead of the consequences of the election. President Biden needs to use the power of his bully pulpit to focus, over and over and over again, on the consequences of electing this monster for our democracy and the fundamental health of our country.

.....(snip)....

Rich Logis is an ex-MAGA activist and Founder of Leaving MAGA.

.....Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party; not because we should desire a one-party nation, but because one of America’s two major parties will nominate someone who helped orchestrate a coup d'état against the Constitution—which Trump swore to defend and protect—and the American people—whom he swore to defend and protect—to remain in power. Yes, I admit: I’m catastrophizing. I also did so in 2016, when I thought the Democrats and Hillary Clinton posed existential threats to our nation, and to my family, my livelihood and I. Ignorant I was; now, I’m clearer-minded, and acutely understand MAGA because I actually lived it. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/11/the-cant-leave-maga--americans-must-electorally-mercy-the-party/

[MiHale]

1. That is one powerful piece...

Some of the opinions seem a little over the top but that’s me, in general this should be taken very seriously.
Very seriously.

[Aristus]

12. I dropped out when he said both sides are responsible for MAGA, even in the same article where he righteously blasts

"both-sidesism".

No, dipshit, we Democrats are NOT responsible for Trump, for MAGA, or for the continuing decline of a once honorable political party. Pull your pants up, be a man, and take responsibility for the Frankenstein's monster YOU created...

[littlemissmartypants]

2. ❤️

[Mr.Bee]

3. Wake Up America

Vote every last one of them out!

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. A Mercy Killing ... I love that analogy.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

6. "What kind of killing was it, Frankenfruiter?"

It's been a while since I attended a midnight RHPS

[Aristus]

13. HA!

Mercy, mercy, mercy!

[JHB]

5. I've been saying this for a while now. If you're an old-school Republican who loves the GOP (or at least a former...

...version of it), the way to save your party is to torpedo it and refloat it after it becomes useless to the zealots, ideologues, and other crazies.

But they won't do it. They'd have to admit Democrats aren't monsters and while they may disagree with some of our policies, we're good stewards of the country.

And they simply can't go that far.

[calimary]

11. Probably because they're that desperate to win.

They don’t have a good record on getting the popular vote.

2024 will mark 20 years since Republicans last won the popular vote. Can they rebrand in time to stop losing streak?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3830161-2024-will-mark-20-years-since-republicans-last-won-the-popular-vote-can-they-rebrand-in-time-to-stop-losing-streak/amp/

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

7. There's no hope for him now, Travis. He's sufferin'. You know we've got to do it.

[dchill]

10. A quote from "Old Orange?"

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

14. Yep

Time to shoot the elephant

[Upthevibe]

8. Kick. N/T

[dchill]

9. Youth in Asia.