@gaughen Thank you for putting country before party! I hope you are more representative of Republican traditions than those folks we’ve seen in the media. And if Project 2025 actually comes to be, they WILL take away guns. Authoritarians hate any potential opposition.
@OccupyDemocrats Please put the message out that the authoritarian fascism described by Project 2025 will inevitably lead to the confiscation of citizens’ guns, despite their reassurances of supporting the 2nd Amendment. No strongman regime tolerates weapons for its masses.
@Lawrence@TheLastWord …away from anyone who poses a potential threat to their power. The MAGA-NRA better get wise to who is REALLY coming for their guns. /2
@Lawrence@TheLastWord Here’s a truth—or one that’s coming if Project 2025 goes into effect. Trump 47–and I hope it doesn’t come to pass—will eventually come for everyone’s guns. Authoritarian regimes consolidate power in as few hands as possible, and that means they will want to take any control /1
@MSNBC What if 6 or 7 moderate Republicans (assuming any exist) who are interested in getting something done for the country and their constituents vote for Jeffries? More legislation? Less gridlock?
@RepSwalwell Unbelievable how they claim to be patriots and are actually authoritarian devotees. What happens when their new Fearless Leader decides he doesn’t like THEM? #DemocracyNotAutocracy
@RepSwalwell The Grand OLD Party used to believe in small government and keeping the government’s hands out of everything. Now, they’re sticking their fingers in womens’ bodies, worrying about what people do in their bedrooms, and blocking voters.
@chrislhayes It seems like the West will soon have to issue an ultimatum: cease hostilities and return home, or be destroyed. That’s not without risk, but maybe Putin will have to concede. #Ukraine#ceasefire#stopthewar
@StevenTDennis Instead of blocking Russian oil, why not undercut the price and sell American oil below market, at least until the Russians stop their invasion of Ukraine? Subsidize American oil producers, if necessary, but driving prices down lowers Putin’s top commodity price.
@ProjectLincoln If Flush Golden kept destroying official government documents and there are multiple witnesses and there is multiple evidence and it is a codified crime, why isn’t the menace to society arrested and in jail?
@SintasYu@chrislhayes I don’t disagree, but by comparison to today’s GOP politicians, they were almost saintly statesmen. If you were forced to pick between Cruz and Nixon, who would you choose? Reagan or McConnell? And so on.
@chrislhayes That’s because the Republicans themselves have descended to become “considerably worse and more debased” than anyone would have thought. God help us all if such people come back into power and engage in ‘legitimate discourse’ again.
@chrislhayes Since when is vandalism, illegal entry, and breaking and entering “legitimate political discourse”? The former “GOP” no longer exists: not the party of Eisenhower, Rockefeller, Reagan, or even Nixon. They have sunk too low to come back.
@JoyAnnReid The country has taken a sharp right turn toward authoritarianism, ironically in the name of freedom. McConnell and the other Machiavellian, power hungry manipulators are stopping the progressive traditions of America that brought rights to everyone.
@HamillHimself Unfortunately, the framers’ “more perfect Union” has deteriorated into a tribal war with fluid factions: racial, political, geographic, religious, etc. The original design of the Senate and EC never accounted for today’s partisan politics.