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Indiana Republicans who lost their jobs after bucking Trump have ‘zero regrets’ (www.nbcnews.com)
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Three state senators who were defeated in Tuesday’s primary told NBC News they don’t feel differently about the redistricting vote that drew Trump’s ire.

After a group of Indiana Republican legislators rejected their party’s redistricting plan last year, they faced public ridicule from Donald Trump and millions of dollars in negative attack ads, with several ultimately losing their jobs Tuesday.

But three of those state senators told NBC News on Wednesday that they have no second thoughts about the vote that put them in the spotlight and led to their defeats at the hands of Trump-backed challengers.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I hope one day we can return to even a semblance of the country I like to think we once had (or at least once liked to pretend that we had) where we can have different values, ideologies, and strategies between parties, but at the very least we can agree on fair representation, mutual respect, compromise, cooperation, and basic humanity. I doubt these men and I agree on much, but as a Hoosier I am grateful that they didnt let this state succumb to Trump's attempt to make my vote count even less than it already does in my red district. They have my deep respect in this one regard at least for having good principles and the backbone to stand by them. Their replacement will probably be our loss.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

We need to start calling thr GOP "trump's party". That way when he is gone it will remind people of all the "like minded" politicians he put in place, and that they need to go as well.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No, they're all MAGA now. The Republican party was just the larval stage before they morphed into their final form - MAGA. The Republican Party should only be referred to in a historical, scholarly context.

Then when it's all over, and MAGA is declared a Domestic Terror Organization, and an active National Security Threat, we can prohibit it from existing, and the Republican party will go away with it, and the few conservatives who haven't been prohibited from holding office under 14A/S3, will be forced to create a new conservative party from scratch, except this time it will have government regulation, to keep it from becoming what it became before.

And if they don't like it, then they don't get a party at all. We are in no way obligated as a nation to tolerate Treason, Racism, and Pedophilia under the guise of Free Speech.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

As does every other member of the Republican party

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Only 3 of 8 lost. Having a petty pdfile attack them doesn't work like it used to.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Factually incorrect,

Five of the seven lost their primaries Tuesday, while another, Greg Goode, advanced to the general election. The other, Spencer Deery, led Trump-backed Paula Copenhaver by just three votes in a race that remained too close to call Wednesday.

Moreover, the argument you're trying to make with that fact is divorced from reality. Trump is hugely influential among Republicans - polls consistently show self identified Republicans having over 80% approval for him and his policies, and the vast majority of their electeds have done everything he wanted and refused to condemn any of his craziness.

This is because the Republican party is an evil organization and has been so ever since the 1960s when they came out swinging against the Civil Rights Acts because they wanted to get dirt poor racist rednecks to vote for tax breaks for oligarchs and deregulation for their factories. Donald Trump is just the latest and most severe example of generations of doubling down on bigotry as a way to market their grifts.

There are no good members of the Republican party. Failure to accept this difficult truth and act accordingly will lead to the destruction of America.