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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rick Wilson Warns Democrats: Seize Your Power Or Republicans Will Make The Next Election The Last [View all]
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1/ Of *course* Qevin McCarthy opposes a bipartisan January 6th Commission.
If the Democrats have the stones to pull it off -- an open question, TBH -- it will make Benghazi look like a sewing circle.
2/ They can't possibly look inside the reality of that day and maintain the Big Lie. They can't admit to the clear causality of Trump unleashing his mob. It opens them to personal, moral, and political liability for that day.
3/ More important in their minds is something darker.
They see the majority in their grasp, and just as they did in the states this year, they'll strike quickly, mercilessly, and without a moment of hesitation of a scintilla of shame to make the next election the last.
4/ For them, the problem wasn't an attack on our republic and a democratic election. For Kevin and Co, the problem was that it didn't work the first time. They need the shock and awe, the spectacle, the Trumphadi terror threat out there.
5/ This zero-sum game of power/not-power is what the Democrats never, ever, ever grasp. This year in the states, the GOP -- directed and assisted by Heritage Action -- has passed sweeping voter restrictions.
Democrats couldn't mount a response. They played defense.
6/ Even now, too many think policy will save them. "But our climate plan" or "but our control gun plan" or "but our daycare plan" isn't politics. It's masturbation.
The bad guys are willing to send people to kill you and you respond with a white paper? GTFO.
7/ This is why the Democrats should stop negotiation over a January 6th commission and just freaking DO it.
Do you think some kind of bipartisan comity and goodwill will be lost somehow? THEY SENT PEOPLE TO KILL YOU. Get a goddamned grip.
Play offense. Drag them.
8/ Here's what you don't get; the Trump GOP as comprised today isn't stupid. It's evil. They're smart. They'll play to your goodwill and instinct for a bipartisan veneer on the Jan 6th issue.
They're conning you.
9/ Stop fucking around. Announce the panel. START.
Don't delay. Time is fleeting, and 2022 is roaring into position. You need to nationalize the election over, you know, the little things like whether it's ok to send a violent, armed mob to the Capitol to overthrow an election.
10/ Washington is a city desperate for an illusion of normalcy and old-school transactional politics. The 2022 election will be defined by someone, very soon. If you want it to be about Antifaaaaaaaaaaaaa and BLM and imaginary conspiracy horseshit, keep on delaying.
11/ But when Speaker Greene takes office, let me know how that bipartisan circle jerk worked out for you.
12/ done
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Rick Wilson Warns Democrats: Seize Your Power Or Republicans Will Make The Next Election The Last [View all]
CousinIT
May 2021
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there has not been this sheer amount of new suppression laws since the height of Jim Crow
Celerity
May 2021
#64
It is just a snapshot in time call, and I never claimed to be omniscient nor definitive
Celerity
May 2021
#67
YW & I'll become far, far more optimistic if certain things occur (looking at you Manchin & Sinema)
Celerity
May 2021
#83
I post what I think is closest to the outcome ATM. I will not make things up just to make some
Celerity
May 2021
#82
the last time voter suppression efforts were this intense, Dems were winning BECAUSE of them
Fiendish Thingy
May 2021
#89
You haven't been paying attention, or are too young too remember the pre-VRA era
Fiendish Thingy
May 2021
#94
And the GOP is working on that problem right now with massive new voter supression laws.
hadEnuf
May 2021
#84
Truer words have never been spoken. The GQP clearly want one party lifetime rule.
usaf-vet
May 2021
#32
In essence, that King's Gambit was the first move. It certainly won't be the last.
Texin
May 2021
#36
Manchin and Sinema have no role in forming a House commission on January 6.
Fiendish Thingy
May 2021
#22
There is no plan B - either you have free and fair elections, or you don't have a democracy
Fiendish Thingy
May 2021
#73
Talk to Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Merkley, Klobuchar, Jayapal- they all know the stakes
Fiendish Thingy
May 2021
#85
Not suggesting that anyone shouldn't vote, only that their vote may not count without HR1
Fiendish Thingy
May 2021
#91
Wilson knows the Republican mind. He is absolutely correct. We need to just DO it.
SunSeeker
May 2021
#20
Stop thinking that the GOP are your colleagues... They are the ENEMY and will stop at nothing
world wide wally
May 2021
#29
One thing's for certain, this shit won't stop if we don't win more control in state legislatures.
sarchasm
May 2021
#75
There are all kinds of places where one could draw their line in the sand.
BobTheSubgenius
May 2021
#76