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Republican Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy loses primary after Trump intervenes to oust him
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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Not that I have any use for the guy myself, but it sucks to see folks that were willing to stand up for America a bit be pushed out over disloyalty to one man. Cholesterol can't do its thing fast enough.
The problem is that all these Republicans even those "seeing the light" are doing so way too fucking late.... They let this train go so far because they were benefiting.
It's like if I saw a bank robbery and kept quiet and just kept picking up the money the robbers dropped as they plundered people's bank account, but then the robbers also started shooting people and now I want to act shocked that these criminals are worse than I thought!
Republicans do not exist anymore.
It's MAGA, a death cult and all their enablers
I mean Jan 6 was too late but it's still years earlier than most of his ilk.
I was going to flip the situation to demonstrate Republican hypocrisy. If Biden had pulled the shit Trump did over the 2020 election and his supporters had responded the way maga did...
But that can't make sense. Biden wouldn't have done that, nor would supporters in any significant numbers.
The mass lunacy is all on one side. J6 is the most glaring example of this con man and his army of degenerates in action, and Republicans/followers are completely OK with knowing the truth of this.
After Trump dies of malignant narcissism and has been gone awhile maga will find itself in a hopeless state of irrelevance. But even then they won't admit to themselves that it was their own doing.