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Over 200 RINOs Show How Trump Saved The GOP From Itself

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GOP Presidential Hopefuls After the New Hampshire Primary Debate

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Gage Klipper Commentary & Analysis Writer
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Over 200 former Bush, McCain and Romney aides endorsed Kamala Harris for President in an open letter Monday night.

The media’s trotting them out as a sign of the walls (finally) closing in, but it’s nothing we haven’t seen before —quite literally. About 150 of roughly the same clowns came out for Joe Biden in 2020. Maybe they just added a few more former interns this time around.

The crux of the whinging is this:

“At home, another four years of Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of Project 2025, will hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions. Abroad, democratic movements will be irreparably jeopardized as Trump and his acolyte JD Vance kowtow to dictators like Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies.”

So perhaps it’s wrong to call them RINOs. It’s not a matter of “losing gracefully” to avoid confronting harsh realities (and mean tweets). They’re not conservatives in the first place.

Let me translate this doublespeak for you. By “dangerous goals” they mean anything disrupts free trade and capital flow. They want to keep America as a free-floating economic zone, not a nation. By “kowtow to dictators” they mean anything that isn’t starting unwinnable wars to spread “liberal democracy” the world over. They want to make Kiev safe for Pride parades.

This isn’t a RINO platform, not really. This is the tried-and-true Republican platform. There’s only one thing keeping it at bay, and his name is Donald J. Trump.

But make no mistake: there are far more than 200 Republicans in Washington who think like this, and they will drag the party right back the first chance they get.

Don’t give them that chance.

Check out Gage Klipper’s other take on the GOP: 

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee declared a “big win” after Mark Zuckerberg admitted to censorship and other election shenanigans in an open letter Monday.

But a simple admission of guilt is no victory. That Republicans think it is shows they don’t even understand what game they’re playing, let alone the stakes.

In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg addressed a laundry list of conservative grievances.

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:

1. Biden-Harris Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans.

2. Facebook censored Americans.

3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024

 

On COVID censorship, he admitted the Biden administration “pressured” Facebook to “censor” even “humor and satire” that cut against The Science™. He added he now believes the “government pressure was wrong” and wishes he was more “outspoken” about it at the time.

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