January 6 and the Toxification of the Republican Brand, Both Nationally and in New Jersey

[TexasTowelie]

To use a Rooseveltian phrase, January 6, 2021 was a date which will live in infamy. It will long be remembered for the only insurrection against the United States government ever incited and inspired by a President, Donald Trump.

And the events of that day resulted in the toxification of the Republican brand, both nationally and in New Jersey. The toxification did not just result from Trump’s traitorous behavior. Rather, it was a direct consequence of the acquiescence of virtually all Republican political figures nationally in the perfidious conduct of the president.

For over four decades, both as a Republican governmental and campaign official, I could not have been more proud of the GOP brand, both nationally and in New Jersey. The brand featured two proud characteristics, rule of law and patriotism. Now, as a result of January 6 and Republican acquiescence in Trump, most voters identify the Republican brand with mob rule, rather than rule of law, and white nationalist sedition, rather than patriotism.

The word “acquiescence” is defined as “the reluctant acceptance of something without protest.” There are two prominent examples of individual Republican acquiescence in Trump’s January 6 disgrace, one national and the other in New Jersey. Both these accelerated the toxification of the Republican brand.

Read more: https://www.insidernj.com/january-6-toxification-republican-brand-nationally-new-jersey/

[Vogon_Glory]

1. January 6th should have been a political epiphany but it wasn't

So some thoughtful blue- and purple-state Republicans either wised up or were forced to confront the decades of evidence as to what Republican Party has become. Yippee!

The problem is that Red State Republicans in the South, the Plains, and the Great Basin either don’t know or don’t care. People like Gregg Abbott and South Dakota’s Noem are still thriving, and too many of their constituents will continue to vote for Club Pachyderm even as the GOP works to turn their states into a third-world oligarchical ruin.

I had a nightmare epiphany myself in November 2016. I still thought that thoughtful, intelligent, discerning voters were still a large plurality in the Republican Party.

Then I learned that they weren’t when TFG defeated Hillary Clinton.