Banana Republican 🍌

Because he's the hero the GOP deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@cd_hooks If the TXGOP was a movie franchise, the Perry/Craddick era is the first movie (Bush is a prequel later), and now we're deep into the shitty sequels with back bench characters and nonsensical plots

[POLITICO @politico]

‘Making too much money’: Trump blasts Exxon Mobil, Chevron profits https://t.co/7CTXBBdmVq

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

National treasure

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

"rhinos"

[Shamwow Shlomi @RealShamwowGuy]

Suing the GOP Texas for deleting my nickname “Shamwow” in the Primaries so they help the incumbent John Carter so the voters don’t recognize me. Rigged election by these rhinos.

https://t.co/oQwmvXylGL

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@damintoell

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

We're less free and you're laughing? #txlege

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@pissmarck @ThyGeekdomCome You can in Texas! See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 17.033

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@jarvis_best Waluigi behavior

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

The wicked flee when no man pursueth

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

If Democrats are going to play the pardon game then we should do the same thing.

Trump can just blanket pardon all of us too.

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

The feed today be like

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

He'll save the children but not the British children

[Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro]

Trevor Noah says he was "angry" at CBS's Tony Dokoupil for saying Coates sounded like an extremist. Noah then compares Gaza to the American Revolution: "If you remove America's history...then it's like, yeah, those people who fought against the British, they were terrorists."

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

Would not want to be Hezbollah's head of purchasing today

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

"I’ve got this thing and it’s f—ing golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for f—-in’ nothing."

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Name your favorite quote by a celebrity.

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@3YearLetterman Catturd never rewound his tapes before returning them to Blockbuster

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

Fat Elvis was far from low energy. Pure liquid cocaine fueled energy

[Peter Wehner @Peter_Wehner]

"The whole landscape of the campaign has been transformed... [Trump] seems not just old but low-energy, stale, even pathetic. He has become the political version of Fat Elvis." @TheAtlantic
https://t.co/iHtzHNLHcJ

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@assliken It's a game of inches

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

Real Conservatism was never tried

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

It’s amazing how many “legacy” conservatives—writers and old-school bloggers who came to prominence 20 years ago, during the Bush II era—simply don’t get it still. You could see it in their reactions to JD Vance getting selected as running mate, ranging from muted to disappointed to exasperated.

These are guys who support Trump and the New Right movement only incidentally and reluctantly, as the least bad option currently available to them. They’re not enthusiastic about having to do so, and they’re still hoping—yearning, even—for a return to the Republican Party of old, governed by Reagan’s tripartite coalition of Chamber of Commerce business conservatives, national security hawks, and Falwell-era Christian conservatives.

These people still—after nearly a decade!—view Trump and his associated movement as a fad. An unruly teenage period that will one day pass, after which the adults in the party can lead the GOP back to its respectable roots, and modern-day conservatives will learn proper reverence for the ideology of Ronald Reagan (born 1911) and William F. Buckley (born 1925).

Here’s what they either don’t get or refuse to come to terms with: That conservative movement is dead. It died because it simply didn’t work, and it’s a death well-deserved.

It died when George W. Bush, the spiritual—and biological—heir of the movement launched an unnecessary war that left thousands of Americans, most of them from working-class backgrounds, dead or maimed on the streets of Iraq.

It died when conservatives offered no solutions for the economic malaise affecting middle-class families aside from the standard tactic of cutting taxes, largely for those in the top 0.1% of households.

It died when the GOP didn’t do anything meaningful to address the crisis at the southern border or the crisis from the opioid epidemic.

It died when the GOP happily supported an agenda of offshoring and deindustrialization, to free up capital to return to the likes of Charles Koch, Mitt Romney, and private equity investors.

It died for countless reasons like these, and it is never coming back. Ever.

Despite this reality, evident to all but the most oblivious DC think-tank staffers, there remains a faction of the conservative movement that still blithely believes the future lies with the likes of Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz. Intellectual descendants of the Bush clan, who still get their stale ideas from the yellowed pages of old print copies of the National Review. Establishment figures more than happy to return to a platform of foreign entanglement and domestic stagnation.

JD Vance, a working-class 39-year-old Iraq veteran, represents the long-term entrenchment of the New Right within the Republican Party, and he heralds the final demise of the legacy Reaganite movement.

With JD as Vice President and heir to the GOP throne, a conservative agenda authentically focused on strengthening working-class families, middle-class communities, and an American economy that works for all stakeholders, not just we capital providers, becomes permanently enshrined. What the establishment hopes is a passing fad becomes a decades-long agenda.

Because of JD’s youth, his eloquence, and his disregard for their failed ideology, this establishment may view him as an ever larger threat than they view Trump. I don’t think he minds their disdain.

I welcome JD Vance’s ascendance. And hopefully the rest of the movement soon does as well.

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@wesyang Miss the days when it was disqualifying

[Fox News @FoxNews]

‘NO ONE’S HOME’: President Biden appears to freeze as Vice President Harris and others dance next to him at a Juneteenth event. https://t.co/k0WAJilZ7l

[Banana Republican 🍌 @BananaGOP]

@jarvis_best My "I don't have chlamydia" tweet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my tweet