Republican Hypocrisy category archive
All the News that Fits 0
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Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . have always been a con to ensnare the gullible, but, when you look closely, there’s no there there.
Republican Family Values 0
There been quite a bit of who-shot-john lately about Herschel Walker and his family values (or perhaps one should say, “families values”). Some are taken aback that, despite his family values (or lack thereof), Republicans seem to still support him in his race against Georgia’s Senator Warnock.
Will Bunch has a theory as to why that is. Here’s a bit of his article:
The conservative movement is about one thing: preserving traditional hierarchies, especially around white privilege and patriarchy, by any means necessary. In the past, democracy — in times and places where white Protestants were the majority — often served that agenda well, and there were dirty tricks like Jim Crow laws for the places where it didn’t. But in an increasingly diverse and better-educated America, the old hierarchies are fading. So today, the far-right has a brand-new tool kit — a belief that Christian law trumps the will of the voters, or that vote counts don’t matter because elections are rigged (although they aren’t), or merely faith in the raw power of imposing unqualified candidates on the body politic.
I commend the entire article to your attention.
Playing the Pawns 0
Michael Paul Williams has serious qualms about and see grave ethical issues with Virginia Governor Trumpkin’s decision to use transgender students (which, remember, are an almost infinitesimal proportion of the populace) as political pawns.
But, then, using innocent persons as pawns seems to be all the rage with today’s Republican Party.
Republican Family Values, Reprise 0
Jeff Shapiro argues that a political party that wants to follow little children into bathrooms and look at their private parts cannot credibly claim that it’s the party of small government.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Methinks that the writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times is onto something.
Where is HUAC when we need them?
Cannon Law 0
The law means what she wants it to mean.
The Privatization Scam 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini says that you can vouch for it–school vouchers a bait-and-switch.
Gutting Out the Vote 2
The Washington Monthly’s Joshua Dounglas thinks the Supreme Supremacist Court is poised to take another whack at the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A snippet:
Then, just last year, the Court in Brnovich v. DNC made it much harder for plaintiffs to use the Voting Rights Act to fight election rules with a discriminatory effect on minority voters. Section 2 of the act is a nationwide provision barring discrimination in the voting process. T. . . .
The third case in this grim trio, Merrill v. Milligan, is now before the Court. It’s another Alabama case that could severely limit the act’s protections for minority voters during redistricting. It could even lead to the Court declaring Section 2 unconstitutional.
Follow the link for discussion.
Suffer the Children, the Children Strike Back 0
Sam and his crew discuss Virginia students’ protest against Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin’s bigoted actions towards trans kids, who, ass the writer of a letter to the editor of my local rag pointed out, are a minuscule percentage of the population.
It wasn’t just in Northern Virginia, folks.
Descent into the Maelstrom 0
Thom and David Corn discuss the Republican Party’s decades long descent into extremism.