I feel like I should add that Liz Cheney voted against the Equality Act like 7 months ago. She voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and she voted to acquit Trump.
I think she also voted against stimulus checks.
At the same time, I really really want to encourage people to say those three magical words.
“I was wrong.”
Saying that publicly is not nothing. I will leave it at that.
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This thread outlines part of the reason that I simply don’t believe the GOP can be “saved.” The institution itself has been captured and infiltrated. There is no one who can stand up to it, even if they wanted to.
This is why we have to undo the party’s structural advantages.
-Outlaw the dark money that is anonymously funding it
-Ban partisan gerrymandering
-Counter GOP state laws enshrining their power/control
-Expand SCOTUS & expose its corruption
-Outreach to middle of the road voters, to explain what is going on
Most of these things are already addressed in Dem legislation - like the For the People Act.
But Dem “moderates” are slow walking these initiatives, and blocking us from using tools like filibuster reform that would allow us to implement them.
For more background on ALEC, if you aren’t familiar with them, read this thread to get an idea of how integral they are to the GOP - from organizing evangelicals in the 1980s, all the way through writing the GOP’s voter suppression bills today.