"A group of people who have been lied to for 35 years, at every turn, just to get the next vote."

[seafan]

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele last night on All In With Chris Hayes, just described with pinpoint accuracy, the conservatives' fury with the GOP:

(Beginning at 8:50)


Steele:

....It's about principle. It's about an ideal and a set of ideas that you fundamentally believe in and that you are prepared to go to the mat for. Yeah, we know charging up that hill, we are going to get slaughtered and we are going to get caught between the crossfires.... we GET that.

But the principle IS charging up that hill... to make the stand on the idea that what we believe has value... it has value not just politically to us, but to the country as a whole.

And I think that's a lot of the frustration that conservatives have. Look, you're talking about a group of people, who, over the last 35 years .... who have essentially been lied to at every turn, just to get the next vote. And they've decided, starting largely in 2006 and certainly in 2010 and onward, that they're not taking it any more. That, if you're going to be a principled conservative, then you need to prove to us that you are principally with us, regardless.

Michael Steele has just articulated the Republican Establishment's worst dread. Their base, now permanently alienated, has turned against them, and, this time, with torches and pitchforks. It is now they, who have become the hunted.


There is no turning back now.


And now, GOP Establishment, it is for keeps.

[daleanime]

1. The next three years.....

are going to be very interesting.

[Ichigo Kurosaki]

2. Reminds my of what is happening to our party. [nt]

[seafan]

4. Why, yes, it does. It's happening all over the world.

We The People are coming.

[Hydra]

10. The DLC are close allies with Bushco

And Bushco has basically been the GOP for 35 years with the Poppy Bush Coup/Revolution still in place. Since their policies hurt just about everyone but themselves, there was only so long they could keep it up before everyone decided it wasn't working.

The fact that the disgust is on both sides of the line really highlights that.

[dae]

3. Soooo, how long would that be for liberals?

45, 55, 65 or what because I didn't realize I was a liberal till Reagan beat Carter.

[seafan]

6. For me, it's since November, 1963.

Most all of it has been a far distance from the truth since then.

[dae]

7. I was 11yo, first time I ever saw my father cry!

[seafan]

9. Those same dark forces are present today.

But those forces are weakening with each passing day, as there are many, many good people who won't rest until those forces are vanquished.

[kelliekat44]

5. That's what happens when you promise to act insanely and then you don't. nt

[bbgrunt]

8. the next segment on the trump tax plan was worth listening to too. David Kaye Johnson is always gre