Tag: Republican values
GOP Lawmaker: Child Marriage Prevents Abortions
“When we do this to people who are of ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom loving couples?”
— New Hampshire state Rep. Jess Edwards (R) opposed raising the age of marriage to 18 years old and “drew gasps and groans from lawmakers,” the Granite Post reports.
GOP Candidate Tells Daughters to ‘Enjoy It’ If Raped
“I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’”
— Robert Regan (R), who is favored to win a seat in the Michigan House reports the Washington Post. One of Regan’s daughters urged voters not to elect him to office two years ago.
It’s Trump’s GOP
“The Republicans haven’t lost their way. They have, instead, found it. And it has led them straight toward unabashed white supremacy and fascism.”
— Mary Trump
More Republicans Approved than Disapproved of Storming the Capitol
45%
A new YouGov poll found that 45% of Republican voters approved of the storming of the U.S. Capitol, while 43% opposed it.
Just 27% of Republicans think this action should be considered a threat to democracy, with 68% saying otherwise.
The Real Republican Platform Is too Scary to Publish
David Frum has a brilliant piece in the Atlantic that outlines in 13 points the actual platform of the Republican Party and explains why the GOP won’t be rolling it out during its convention. It’s red meat for a minority and too scary and cynical for a majority of Americans.
The points are all discoverable in the behavior of Republican politicians and the titular head of the party — Donald Trump. We’ve seen them implemented over the past 3.5 years on the border, in the environment, on Capitol Hill, in the White House and on the Supreme Court.
So Now being a Republican Means Being an ‘Ever Trumper’
“If you are a Republican today, you are a strong supporter of Donald Trump. He has a greater degree of support within his party than any Republican president has ever had since they started polling.”
.