The biggest threat to Middle America isn't the Democratic Party; it is the absence of effective, sustained opposition from the Republican Party. Here is a thread on conservative-Republican people and groups to look out for as they try to rehabilitate their image 1/
Greg Abbott has been working hard to make people forget that he is among the worst Republicans--one who has his eye on the WH and has only started doing "based" things due to dismal polling and challengers 2/ amgreatness.com/2021/03/12/gre…
Abbott welcomed Amazon's business right before it booted Parler from its servers, slandered Gab as anti Semitic and has tried to characterize Allen West as a such by extension for his using the platform 3/
Kristi Noem wants the WH as bad as Greg Abbott and is just as willing to do whatever it takes to get there, so long as it conforms with the interest of her donors and corporations 4/ amgreatness.com/2021/03/23/gov…
Noem plays up her opposition to illegal immigration because she is awful on the much more serious problem of mass legal immigration--most illegals are people who overstay their visas. @MattWalshBlog was right about Noem's hollowness 5/ chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/kristi-no…
The America First Policy Institute is positioning itself as a kind of Trump/GOP WH team in waiting. But their members and ambassadors were among the worst actors in the Trump WH, so don't let them fool you 5/ spectatorworld.com/topic/america-…
Freeing dangerous felons, pushing amnesty, funding sanctuary cities with discretionary cash, the Platinum Plan—all of that stuff in the Trump WH originates with these people 6/
Understanding the GOP is a threat to you is the only way you avoid riding outrage against the Democratic Party back to electoral victory, only to squander yet more opportunities in the limp hands of bad leaders 7/
Lindsey Graham shows up on cue to prove how thoroughly rotten the national GOP is 8/ 
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