Dozens of former Bush officials leave cult

[struggle4progress]

By Reuters, Wire Service Content
Feb. 1, 2021

... "The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump," said Jimmy Gurulé, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration.

Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the Bush White House’s communications office for six years, said roughly 60 to 70 former Bush officials have decided to leave the party or are cutting ties with it, from conversations he has been having. "The number is growing every day," Purcell said.

Their defection from the Republican Party after a lifetime of service for many is another clear sign of how a growing intraparty conflict over Trump and his legacy is fracturing it ...

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-02-01/exclusive-dozens-of-former-bush-officials-leave-republican-party-calling-it-trump-cult

[lpbk2713]

1. Too late to omit it from their resumes.

A simple background check will show they worked for a traitor.

[struggle4progress]

2. GOP cowers from QAnon

BY JUAN WILLIAMS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/01/21 06:00 AM EST

... it pains me to see the cancerous gang of grifters, white supremacists and conspiracy-theory mad hatters who are killing the party of conservative principles ...

A YouGov poll taken earlier this month found that 30 percent of self-described Republicans have a favorable view of QAnon — the conspiracy theory that the world is secretly controlled by a cabal of satanic pedophiles ...

... Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) wrote an essay for The Atlantic headlined, “QAnon is destroying the GOP from within” ...

In May 2019, the FBI labeled QAnon and other conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat ...

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/536669-juan-williams-gop-cowers-from-qanon

[LakeArenal]

3. Yeah. The T-party of this generation.

[handmade34]

4. from now on

the Republican Party is the "Cult"

Republican people are "Cult Members"

I'm good with that

[lunasun]

5. now? meh The repugrats probably all voted for trump but now that he lost..

[lindysalsagal]

6. Cue circular firing squad.

Ding!