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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,741 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 01:12 PM Sep 2020

Former GOP lawmakers on endorsing Biden: Trump is no Republican, 'lacks basic self-control'

Two former Republican lawmakers wrote an op-ed on Friday explaining why they are supporting Democrat Joe Biden instead of President Trump in November, arguing Trump is "an ill-formed man who lacks basic self-control and shows no semblance of inner character."

Former Reps. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) and Mickey Edwards (R-Okla.) in an opinion for Roll Call condemned Trump's "childish name-calling, crude behavior and immature narcissism."

"Civility is a trait of inner character and self-confidence. That is why we are so disturbed by Trump's name-calling and childish taunting, his penchant for conspiracy theories and his embrace of conspiracy websites, all of which reflect a disturbing paranoia," the pair wrote.

"Donald Trump may pretend to be heir to the great Republican tradition that appealed to us both but he is no Republican. He is simply an ill-formed man who lacks basic self-control and shows no semblance of inner character," they added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-gop-lawmakers-on-endorsing-biden-trump-is-no-republican-lacks-basic-self-control/ar-BB19ryOD?li=BBnb7Kz

I would argue the Republican Party is no more. It's been replace by the Dixiecrat party

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Former GOP lawmakers on endorsing Biden: Trump is no Republican, 'lacks basic self-control' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Republicans are all cowards. Statistical Sep 2020 #1
Trump is a fascist, using the christofascist right to gain and stay in power. Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #2

Statistical

(19,264 posts)
1. Republicans are all cowards.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 01:17 PM
Sep 2020

Notice how it is all former GOP lawmakers, or policy makers, or staff, or whatever.

They all are willing to state obvious truths as soon as it has zero cost or risk for them to do so.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. Trump is a fascist, using the christofascist right to gain and stay in power.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 01:39 PM
Sep 2020

that is the new truth of the GOP. The right is either an enabler of this modern American fascism or a mouth breathing by stander.

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