• Xhieron
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    564 months ago

    They rejected the strongest border security deal in decades. The GOP wants open borders. That’s the headline. They want open borders, they want Chinese hegemony in the Eastern Hemisphere, they want Vladimir Putin to take over Europe and the Middle East, and they want the US to become a second rate fascist dictatorship. That’s what the Republican party is for.

    • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      94 months ago

      How did it get this way? Who is pulling the strings? Have the Republicans always been this suicidal a party or did they just use to be constitution abiding conservatives?

      • @MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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        164 months ago

        They’ve always been that way.

        What do conservatives ACTUALLY conserve? It’s not the environment. It’s not law and order. It’s social stratification. Conservatives WANT a powerful ruling class. That’s what they want to conserve. They are, and have ALWAYS been, enemies of democracy. They believe “strong men” (read: assholes) are good, and want systems that can empower rulers, not representatives.

        Conservatives have ALWAYS been enemies of equity.

      • BombOmOm
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        84 months ago

        The short version is the Republican party is now ran by Trump who is, frankly, an idiot. Trump single-handedly killed the bipartisan Ukraine/Border deal because it would make Biden look good. Biden relented and gave Republicans a win-win deal, and Trump was too blinded by Biden getting positive press to allow the deal that would get Republicans good press and something they have been pushing for for decades.

      • @lordnikon@lemmy.world
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        44 months ago

        if you want to know read up on James W. Fifield Jr and National Association of Manufacturers that’s where it started.