Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Remove Republic from Republican" video.

@Stephanie Walsh We’re not giving Trump the GOP. It’s already his. The party, from the leadership down to the grassroots, loves Trump. If you don’t love Trump, you’re not really in the party. You now have the honor of being a RINO. Welcome to the human race, we’ve been waiting for you! It might be hard to digest all this, especially for those of us that have been lifelong Republicans. But we will keep one fact in our hearts and minds, we are Americans first. And we will fight for THAT. The GOP is not worth saving nor worth fighting over.
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@maryjaneneels5536 I left in 2006, after 25 years or so. I was hoping to help remove the racist strains, both the overt ones and the more subtle. I guess I was the token model minority. I actually liked Bush, despite his weaknesses (his biggest mistake was choosing Cheney and Rumsfeld). I was against the war in Iraq, but once the invasion began, I backed my country. It was the “peace” in Iraq that I worried about, and I was proved right by the incompetence and corruption of Wolfowitz and Cheney, and the general imbecility of Rumsfeld. The straw that broke the camel’s back, though, was what happened with Abu Graib and the debate about torture. I was shocked that the President, who I thought was a moral man, would allow the pretzel logic justifications of “enhanced interrogation”. But it was the rank and file “ordinary Republican” response that sickened me. Many gave up the justifications, and argued for worse torture as a matter of revenge for 911. Much of it came down to religious bigotry and racism. It was no longer worth it to me to fight for what was right in the Republican Party. I wasn’t missed, I’m sure. I was already being called a RINO and a traitor who supported Islam. Despite all I knew, I was still shocked by how the GOP so neatly embraced Trump’s overt racism. How easily they slid into deplorable fascism. How comfortable they were with being their worst selves. Jesus wept.
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@stylecollective-qt9um Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth saving or can be saved. The white supremacist cancer is inoperable. I was a Republican for 26 years. I was well aware of the racism that existed in the party and tried to fight it. I knew it went deep, but I had no idea how deep until Trump was elected. We conservatives can form another party, based on conservative and democratic principles. If we can elect congresspeople, they can caucus with the Democrats until the GOP is a distant memory.
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TLP has eschewed the idea of themselves setting up a conservative alternative. They say they are devoting themselves to promoting principles of American democracy and civic virtue. I’m good with that. Eventually we will have a viable conservative party, but we must destroy the fascist threat first.
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Everything I learned about Civics, I learned from computer games, particularly Sid Meier’s Civilization. Democracy and Republic are two different technologies on the Tech Tree! 😆
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Carrie See Why do you think we care what a Russian citizen does? Do whatever the hell you want in your own country, stop meddling in the affairs of ours.
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@Fred-on6gc Bob Dole was the fucking bomb. I’m not a rabid Clinton hater (either of them), but Dole would have made a much better president.
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@stankyfx6001 OK Ivan
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