What Can Americans Do About Having a National Political Party Built on Hatred?

[Judi Lynn]

MARCH 17, 2023

BY THOM HARTMANN

Denver conservative radio host Mandy Connell publicly changed her party affiliation from Republican to independent on her program this Monday, a week after giving a thoughtful and largely apolitical interview to Talkers Magazine publisher Michael Harrison on his podcast. On her own program she was blunt:

“As much as I hold conservative ideals and values in many, many ways, I will not be a part of the cult of Trump anymore. I don’t want people to say, ‘Why is your party doing this?’ I don’t want people to look at me and say, ‘What is wrong with your party?’ It’s not my party. It’s the party of Donald Trump in Colorado.”

Denver’s Channel 9 News, reporting on Connell’s leaving the GOP, noted Monday:

“Connell is one of 133 Republicans that changed their voter affiliation since Saturday. The majority switched to unaffiliated.”

Following the January 6th insurrection and coup attempt, The New York Times documented hundreds of thousands of Republicans across America leaving their party by going to the effort of changing their party registration.

More:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/17/what-can-americans-do-about-having-a-national-political-party-built-on-hatred/

[Haggard Celine]

1. One of133? That's wonderful!

[Walleye]

2. Switching to independent is wimpy and cowardly. Become a democrat

They have got to break free from their belief that the Democratic Party is the great Satan. Otherwise they will always go back to being Republican it’s in their bloodstream

[Artcatt]

3. Wimpy and cowardly is one of their defining characteristics

[Walleye]

4. Very good, there's also childish and immature

[mopinko]

6. i think it all stems from their cowardice.

all of it. only know 1 in real life. thought him a decent person for a long time. but he showed his yellow streak in a big way.

[sindri]

5. maybe we should get rid of political parties altogether

as it just seems to divide us.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn