Great Comment – thanks

“disciplined and ruthless” is something I never thought I’d hear describing the modern Republican party.

If they keep going like this, we might have to stop calling them the Stupid Party.

…..Yes, I voted for Trump three times and can’t remember the last time I voted for John Cornyn.

— KurtP

Yes, as I’ve been pointing out for a while, the GOP is very slowly changing, and has been since 2016. But the Old Guard hates it. The Old Guard aren’t just the literally older politicians, though it does trend that way, some very young and recently elected GOPers are Old Guard, as we just saw in South Carolina.

If you ask an Old Guard GOPer who their ideal President would be, and they’re being honest, it’ll be someone like Jeb Bush. Open borders, ‘free trade’, social liberal, ‘private profit socialized loss’, hyper-secular, the corporate business agenda.

MAGA was fed up with GWB being too establishment, the Establishment didnt like Dubya because they though he was too religious and too conservative. They wanted Jeb, even when Dubya was in power, and in 2016 they tried to set it up so Jeb got the nomination no matter what. We saw how that worked out.

Even now, they’re desperately hoping that after Trump dies or leaves office, things can go back to what they think of as ‘normal’. I don’t think that’ll happen, they’ll either get more MAGA or more radical-leftism.

But what happened in Indiana has already had a bracing effect, I suspect.

If they keep going like this, we might have to stop calling them the Stupid Party.

…..Yes, I voted for Trump three times and can’t remember the last time I voted for John Cornyn.

The fact that there are a majority of politicians in The Senate who don’t want proof of citizenship to vote is damning.

Sorry, but I don’t believe a damn thing the GOP says at the national level.

… and I so want to be wrong. I just retired at age 79 from being a Chief Election Judge in my state. All I can tell you is the in person voting in my wife’s (also a Chief Election Judge) and my precinct went smoothly and fairly all the 20 years we worked, but that is not where the problems are in a Red State with paper ballots.

Start with the voter rolls – they are awful. Get rid of electronic voting machines. Get paper ballots with watermarks. Signature verification on absentee ballots envelopes. Date of birth on return absentee ballot envelopes. There are so many simple things you can do. We all know what to do.

The Democrats oppose all this because they cheat, always have cheated and are damn good at it.

What we need, in addition, is a really effective get out the vote operation.