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Friday 26th of April 2024

2016 Presidential primaries Republicans tempt voters with a plethora of lightweights and losers — Democrats, with fewer © 2015 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections  The Democrats averted a midterm catastrophe, yes, but it is rather startling to consider that Republicans spent the past two years defending a corrupt demagogue, attacking the democratic process, banning abortion across much of the land, offering few considered policy ideas of their own — and having taken the House, come so close ot claiming the Senate too. Given all this, Democrats would be wise to treat the 2022 elections not as a vindication but as a stay of execution. Alexander Burns, New York Review of Books, January 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Abortion How's this for an ad? [for Democrats] Democrats support abortion. So do Republicans when they need one for their girlfriend. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, March 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Affective polarization While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms, a new type of division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly dislike and distrust those from the other party. Democrats and Republicans both say that the other party’s members are hypocritical, selfish, and closed-minded, and they are unwilling to socialize across party lines.  This phenomenon of animosity between the parties is known as affective polarization. Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, Matthew Levendusky, Neil Malhotra & Sean J. Westwood, “The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States” © 2023 Kwiple.com
American plutocrats The Democratic party has been put on notice. If it picks a pro-tax candidate to take on Donald Trump next year, a billionaire will probably enter the US presidential race as a spoiler. Whether that is Howard Schultz, the former chief executive of Starbucks, or someone else, is secondary. Any third-party plutocrat would have the means to split the vote and enable Mr Trump's re-election. The inference is clear: a large chunk of America's plutocracy would risk a second Trump term to keep their taxes low. Edward Luce, Financial Times, Jan. 31, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bipartisanship Increasingly, voters — on the left and on the right — are demanding more than bipartisanship is capable of giving them. The right has already made a significant break with the idea.  It remains to be seen whether Democratic voters will follow suit and demand — in protests and at the ballot box — that their leaders join them. For the country’s sake, we should hope they do. Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, October 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Democratic House candidates netted 1.3 million more votes than Republicans in 2012, but secured 33 fewer seats. Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, June 29, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In 1960, when a survey asked American adults whether it would “disturb” them if their child married a member of the other political party, no more than 5 percent of either party answered “yes.” But in 2010, 33 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Republicans answered “yes.” In fact, partyism, as some call it, now beats race as the source of divisive prejudice.  Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of Republicians who believe millions of illegal votes were probably cast in last year's election: 52 Of Democrats who believe Russia tampered with the vote count: 59 Harper's Index, August 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Car culture The pattern of car purchasing maps on to the US political divide.  Republicans are more likely than Democrats to buy a new vehicle of any kind, and vastly more likely to buy a big one. About 65 per cent of buyers of the largest pickup trucks, utility vehicles and SUVs last year were Republican, compared with just 15 per cent bought by Democrats, according to a survey by the research company Strategic Vision. John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, February 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Look, if I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm  the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time.  Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can't. If we had a Wall, they wouldn't even try! Donald Trump, 10:30 AM - 29 Dec 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party In the early 1970s, the party became the home of educated professionals, nonwhite voters, and the shrinking unionized working class. The more the party identified with the winners of the new economy, the easier it became for the Republican Party to pull away white workers by appealing to cultural values. Bill and Hillary Clinton spoke about equipping workers to rise into the professional class through education and training. Their assumption was that all Americans could do what they did and be like them. George Packer, The Atlantic, July/August 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party It is the developing trend of the party, not its record, Among its Washington corps of politicians, fewer and fewer are masters, as Mr [Mitch] McConnell is, of procedural arcana. What knavery it used to have was often learnt in the unions. The tone of the party is now set by younger and more educated activists who treat politics as a matter of first principles, not mechanisms – as a cause, not a craft. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 11, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party Left parties the world over were founded to advance the fortunes of working people. But our left party in America – one of our two monopoly parties – chose long ago to turn its back on these people's concerns, making itself instead into the tribune of the enlightened pro- fessional class, a “creative class” that makes innovative things like derivative securities and smartphone apps. The working people that the party used to care about, Democrats figured, had nowhere else to go, in the famous Clinton-era expression. The party just didn't need to listen to them any longer. Thomas Frank, Rendezvous with Oblivion © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party The rejection of [George] Wallace [in 1964] was as much a statement for the Democratic Party as the acceptance of Trump by the Republican Party. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats The Democrats came to think of themselves not as the voice of working class people at all but as a sort of coming together of the learned and the virtuous. Thomas Frank, The People, No © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Democrats can be too big a tent. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Even the party’s most progressive field for a generation or two does not contemplate taxes that are European in breadth and depth. Pressed on this point, Democrats invoke the sage that was Willie Sutton. The criminal of yore targeted banks because, he said, with unanswerable logic, “That’s where the money is.” In a country with America’s titanic inequalities, the top 1 per cent is where the money is. It is the obvious percentile to press for revenue. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats I don't believe in litmus tests for Democrats. I'm not voting anybody off the island. Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democrats In a lot of ways, the Democratic Party went from protecting people to protecting feelings. Bill Maher © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democrats In targeting just the richest [1% for tax increases], Democrats rather imply that a welfare state is only worthwhile insofar as someone else pays for it. It is not an inherent good. It is not a nation's binding agent. In this sense, the Sanders and especially the Warren platform is a tacit concession to the Republican view of the world, with tax as a burden, not what the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes defined as “what we pay for civilised society.” The Democratic appeal is less to Nordic universalism and solidarity than to the noblesse oblige of a remote overclass who will not miss the money. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Feb. 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Orange County is a place where you can ask people if that's their real hair color; you can ask them if that diamond is real; you can ask if that car is a lease. But you cannot ask if someone is a Democrat. Katie Porter, a Democrat who flipped an Orange County, California, district in 2018, thereby becoming the first Democrat to win the district and the first single mother ever elected to Congress © 2023 Kwiple.com
Democrats The question is always, 'How are you gonna pay for that?' We never sound credible as Democrats on that, and it shrinks up our ambitions. So our ambitions keep narrowing. 'Well, can we have just a little bit of child care? How about a tiny bit? Could we give a little help on student loans?' Let me make this pitch: Who's gonna show up to reduce student loan debt by 2%? I'm serious! Who's gonna show up on our side to fight for that? Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democrats So this is what I have become certain of:  Democrats spend too much time and energy imagining the policies that a capable government could execute and not rearly enough time imagining how to make a government capable of executing them. It is not only markets that have failed. Ezra Klein, New York Times, May 31, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democrats State parties elect Democrats, plain and simple. Jane Kleeb, Harvest the Vote © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Twitter is not America. In most of America, all they want, is to vote for someone who is not weird. Play to them and stop worrying that you're going to lose social justice warriors to Donald Trump. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Mahar, Oct. 25, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democrats What the US left appears to want is social democracy as understood by Robin Hood. It would tax astronomical wealth to fund popular programmes. It would not ask much more of the middle or even the upper middle classes. … This does, however, put them at some odds with the social democrats of Europe, who tax more citizens more heavily. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats When you lose to somebody who has 40% popularity, you don't blame other things – Comey, Russia – you blame yourself.  Chuck Schumer © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democrats say How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high. Michelle Obama © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democrats say No, no. When they go low, we kick them. That's what this new Democratic Party is about. We're proud as hell to be Democrats. We're going to fight for the ideals of the Democratic Party. We're proud of our history. We're proud of our present. And we're proud of the future we can create for this country. Eric Holder © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democrats to 1%ers How do I love thee? Let me count the way$ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dysfunction in government We don't work with Democrats. There'll be none of that uniter-divider stuff. Tom Delay, to president-elect George W. Bush © 2018 Kwiple.com
Fearmongers say If you want to protect criminal aliens – VOTE DEMOCRAT. If you want to protect Law-Abiding Americans – VOTE REPUBLICAN! Donald Trump, 6:46 PM – 3 Nov 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Gerrymandering Jonathan Mattingly swings his legs up onto his desk, presses a key on his laptop and changes the results of the 2012 elections in North Carolina. On the screen, flickering lines and dots outline a map of the state's 13 congres- sional districts, each of which chooses one person to the US House of Representatives. By tweaking the borders of those election districts, but not changing a single vote, Mattingly's maps show candidates from the Democratic Party winning six, seven or even eight seats in the race. In reality, they won only four – despite earning a majority of votes overall. “The mathematicians who want to save democracy,” Nature, Vol. 546, 8 June 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Great Recession Although Democrats apparently didn't know it, the Great Recession had repolarized the compass points. Nothing worked the way it used to in the nineties. It was no longer about “left” versus “right”; it was about special interests versus common interests. This was a time for a second FDR, not Clinton II. Thomas Frank, Pity the Billionaire  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Great Recession From its silver-tongued leader on down, Democrats simply could not tell us why our system had run aground and why our we had a stake in doing things differently. They could not summon an ideology of their own. … And so Democratic leaders tried to assuage public anger over the bailouts while barely mentioning Wall Street's power over Washington — that subject they left to the resurgent Right. Thomas Frank, Pity the Billionaire  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say As improbable as it may sound, the Russian bear shares more interests with the Republican elephant than the Democratic donkey.  Marina Butina, founder of Russia's Right to Bear Arms movement © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun violence When you hear the phrase, “armed compound in a secluded rural area,” what is that – a bunch of Democrats? Is that Dennis Kucinich out there? Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Voter ID laws aren't aimed at Democratic voters © 2017 Kwiple.com
Impeachment What has changed is not the calculus of impeachment, then. What has changed is the Democrats' propensity to calculate. Essentially, the party has stopped overthinking. Rather than second-guess the political consequences of impeachment, their concern is for – do not laugh – the principle. Janan Ganash, Financial Times, September 25, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Income growth Democratic administrations have since 1948 presided over income gains that dimish as you move up  the income scale, while Republican administrations have presided over income gains that diminish as you move down the income scale. Timothy Noah, The Great Divergence © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say What will happen if even one Democrat votes no on federal disaster relief money for victims of hurricane Harvey, like the 36 Republican Senators — Kelly Ayotte Mike Enzi John Mccain John Barrasso Deb Fischer Mitch McConnell Roy Blunt Jeff Flake Jerry Moran John Boozman Lindsey Graham Rand Paul Richard Burr Chuck Grassley Rob Portman Saxby Chambliss Orrin Hatch Jim Risch Dan Coats Jim Inhofe Pat Roberts Tom Coburn Johnny Isakson Marco Rubio Bob Corker Mike Johanns Tim Scott John Cornyn Ron Johnson Jeff Sessions Mike Crapo Mark Kirk John Thune Ted Cruz Mike Lee Pat Toomey — who voted no on federal disaster relief money for victims of hurricane Sandy?  There'll be a record shitstorm from Trump supporters © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say I'm very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for Democrats. They definitely don't want Trump! Donald Trump, 8:50 AM - 24 Jul 2018, after standing beside Putin in Helsinki as Putin admitted that he ordered Russian interference in the 2016 election to help Trump win, which puts this statement beyond mere lying and deep into the depths of scumbaggery © 2018 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Just as Republicans repay their donors with tax cuts, Democrats repay their base with debt forgiveness. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 7, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Neoliberalism Neoliberalism has … been both antidemocratic and anti-Democratic. Robert Kuttner. New York Review of Books, July 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Partisanship Being a Democrat or a Republican has become not just a party affiliation but an identiy. A 2016 survey conducted by the Pew Foundation found that 49 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats say the other party makes them “afraid.” Among politically engaged Americans, the numbers are even higher— 70 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Republicans say they live in fear of the other party. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Partisanship [T]he two parties are now divided over race and religion—two deeply polarizing issues that tend to generate greater intolerance and hostility than traditional policy issues such as taxes and government spending. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Political inequality According to research by David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, an electoral-analysis site, even if Democrats won the national vote by six percentage points over a six-year cycle, they would probably still be a minority in both houses. Economist, July 12, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Political inequality At no time during the twenty-first century have Senate Republicans represented a majority of the U.S. population. Based on state populations, Senate Democrats have continuously represented more Americans since 1999. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Tyranny of the Minority  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Political inequality By my calculation every currently serving Democratic senator represents roughly 3.65 million people; every Republican roughly 2.51 million. Put another way, the fifty senators from the twenty-five least populous states – twenty-nine of them Republicans – represent just over 16 percent of the American population, and thirty-four Republican senators – enough to block conviction  on impeachment charges – represent states with a total of 21 percent of the American population. Christopher R. Browning, “The Suffocation of Democracy” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Political inequality The House of Representatives is more balanced [than the Senate], but even there Democrats can win a majority of votes and end up with fewer seats. The Economist's own model suggests that Democrats need to win by seven points to have a greater than 50% chance of gaining a majority in the House. Gerrymandering is partly to blame. But the Democratic vote is also ineffi- cient: its candidates pile up votes in districts they win by a landslide. The Republican vote is more thinly spread, so its candidates can win more seats with fewer votes. The Economist, July 12, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Politial inequality In the age of Trump, Democrats have developed a great sense of pride in their role protecting America's frayed democratic norms.  But there may come  a moment when the euphoria of a better-than-expected midterm election is only a memory and the sense of righteous virtue that comes from defending democracy begins to wear thin. When that day arrives, many of the voters who who make up the party's base and a majority of the country … might find that it is no longer tolerable to be ruled by a dwindling and overempowered minority. There is only so much satisfaction to be drawn from being the sole party with an unblemished record of dutifully surrendering power. Alexander Burns, New York Review of Books, January 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Political inequality The present Republican Senate majority, which fast-tracked a third Supreme Court Justice to confirmation at a time when 60m had already cast their vote, represents 15m fewer Americans than the Democratic senators on whom they impenitently imposed their will. Sooner or later, these institutional anomalies will be redefined as gross injustices. Simon Schama, Financial Times, October 30, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Political inequality Today … Republicans are predominantly the party of sparsely populated regions,  while Democrats are the party of the cities. As a result, the Constitution's small-state bias, which became a rural  bias in the twentieth century, has become a partisan bias in the twentieth-first century. We are experiencing our own form of “creeping counter-majoritarianism.” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Tyranny of the Minority  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Political parties America really has no left party. We have a center-right party, which I would call what the Democrats are now, and then we have the Republicans, a party that drove the crazy bus straight into Nuttown. They moved the goal posts so far to the right that what seems like the liberal point of view is really the old conservative point of view. Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Political parties It is a cliched truism that the Democratic Party hates their base, while the Republican Party fears theirs. This is fundamentally the issue that each party must confront. Avi Rabin-Havt, Democracy Journal, Winter 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Political parties They've got a set of Republican waiters  on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen. Huey Long, 1932 campaign speech for the reeledtion of Senator Hattie Caraway (D-AR) © 2022 Kwiple.com
Political violence In our April survey, about 10 million Democrats agree that the “use of force is is justified to change” US laws and institutions that are “fundamentally unjust” and about 10 million Democrats also agree that “force is justified against the police.” Robert A. Pape, Boston Globe, August 16, 2022 [Survey conducted by Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST)] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Populism The question is  no longer whether America's populist left is rising. It is who will lead it.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, June 22, 2017, following defeats of establishment Democrats in four special congressional elections to fill seats vacated by Republicans who left to join Trump's adminisration © 2017 Kwiple.com
Post-2014 Senate shituation 13 states (Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming) 2014 population: 35,432,696 Senators: 26 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,362,796 people — 1 state (California) 2014 population: 38,332,521 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,166,261 people 19,166,261 / 1,362,796 = 14, therefore: average 13er's vote is worth 14 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 7% of an average 13er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2014 population = 582,658, therefore: 1 Senator per 291,329 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 66 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's © 2015 Kwiple.com
Post-2016 Senate shituation 14 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2016 population: 38,597,448 Senators: 28 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,378,480 people — 1 state (California) 2016 population: 38,802,500 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,401,250 people 19,401,250 / 1,378,480 = 14, therefore: average 14er's vote is worth 14 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 7% of an average 14er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2016 population = 584,153, therefore: 1 Senator per 292,077 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 66 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's © 2016 Kwiple.com
Post-2018 Senate shituation 15 states (Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2018 population: 40,056,961 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,335,232 people — 1 state (California) 2018 population: 39,776,830 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,888,415 people 19,888,415 / 1,335,232 = 16, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth 16 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 6% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2018 population = 573,720, therefore: 1 Senator per 286,860 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 69 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.4% of a Wyomian's © 2016 Kwiple.com
Presidential harassment Yes, presidential harassment – it's like sexual harassment, only Republicans take it seriously. Stephen Colbert, responding to Trump's complaint that Democratic investigations of him are “presidential harassment” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage Democrats are to poltical courage what Velveeta is to cheese. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, March 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse In the early 1990s, [Newt] Gingrich [then House Minority Whip] and his team distributed memos to Republican candidates instructing them to use certain negative words to describe Democrats, including pathetic, sick, bizarre, betray, antiflag, antifamily, and traitor . It was the beginning of a seismic shift in American politics. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Republicans? They're all claws, sharp teeth and fangs when they fight. The Democrats? Their weapon of choice  is adaptive coloration. “I'm a leaf. Don't eat me.” “Vote for me – I'm the same pattern as the couch.” Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher, March 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Seventy percent of Democratic partisans and leaners said was never acceptable for elected officials to call their opponents stupid, while only 51 percent of Republicans same the same. Fifty-three percent of Democrats said it was never acceptable to call opponents “anti-American”; only 25 percent of Republicans same the same. And 42 percent of Democrats said is was never acceptable to call an opponent's policy positions “evil” — a minority this time, but, here again, a larger proportion than the 26 percent of Republicans who said the same. Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, Oct. 2021, reporting on the findings of a 2019 poll by Pew Research Center © 2021 Kwiple.com
Public discourse They say, “I'm going to protect you from the terrorists in Tehran and the homos in Hollywood.” We say, “We're for clean air, better schools, more health care.” James Carville, Democratic political consultant, comparing Republicans to Democrats © 2022 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Wokeness is a problem and everybody knows it. It's hard to talk to anybody today —  and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn't say this. But they don't want to say it out loud. James Carville, April 27, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Public discourse You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like “Latinx” that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like “communities of color.” I don't know anyone who speaks like that. I don't know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and black and brown people and they all live in … neighborhoods. There's nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you're talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language. This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense it's not. James Carville, April 27, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Racial inequality Malcolm X's vision of black politics, centered on putting community issues first, has collapsed under the weight of the Democratic Party's general uneasiness about tackling racial inequality and under the guidance of a race-neutral black president who distances himself from issues and policies targeted at eradicating racial inequality. Fredrick C. Harris, The Price of the Ticket   © 2016 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say If Joseph Goebbels was around, he'd be very proud of the Democratic Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine. Allen West © 2015 Kwiple.com
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Reich wingers say Now what are the similarities between the Democratic Party of today and the Nazi Party in Germany? Well, the Nazis were against big business … were opposed to Jewish capitalism … were insanely, irrationally against pollution … were for two years of mandatory voluntary service to Germany … had a whole bunch of make-work projects to keep people working … were against cruelty and vivisection of animals … banned smoking … were for abortion … [and] cradle-to-grave nationalized healthcare. Rush Limbaugh © 2015 Kwiple.com
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Reich wingers say This is Auschwitz. They are coming for you. Webb Kline, born-again Christian and owner of a Pennsnylaania trucking company, comparing Democrats to Nazis at a rally for Doug Mastriano, Christian nationalist, insurrectionist, election denier, and 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Democrats aren't rivals; they're enemies to be vanquished © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say People vote for Democrats because they think Democrats will give them free stuff © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Prevent Democrats from keeping or winning vacated seats in the legislature by outlawing special elections to fill them — It's better for people to be disenfranchised than to be represented by the devil or for us to suffer an embarrassing loss © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Weaponize the census to guarantee that it undercounts existing and potential Democratic voters © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Silicon Valley billionaires and CEOs are libertarian, low-tax deregulation buddies of the Koch brothers when it comes to talking to Republicans, and dope-smoking, gay rights activist hipsters when they mix with the Democrats. Silicon Valley honchos portrayed by Robert W. McChesney © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Warren was the first love interest of the [Democratic] party's grassroots since Obama. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Joshua Green in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
Sociopaths say The Democrats are the party of pedophiles. The Democrats are the party of princess predators from Disney.  The Democrats are the party of teachers, elementary school teachers trying to transition their elementary school-age children and convince them they're a different gender. This is the party of their identity, and their identity is the most disgusting, evil, horrible thing happening in our country. Marjorie Taylor Greene, seeding the ground for political violence by sociopaths like herself and her kuckle-dragging followers  © 2022 Kwiple.com
State bankruptcy Of the 15 states least reliant on federal transfers, 11 are led by Democratic governors. Of the 15 states most reliant on federal transfers, 11 have Republican governors. … A state bankruptcy process would thus enable a Republican Party based in the poorer states to use its federal ascendany to impose its priorities upon the budgets of the richer states. … State bankruptcy is a project to shift hardship onto pensioners while protecting bondholders–and, even more than bondholders, taxpayers. David Frum, The Atlantic, April 25, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
State of the union The challenge for the Democratic party is whether it can win back white working class voters faster than Republicans win over non-white voters. At the moment that is an open question. The fate of Mr Biden's presidency – and his party – may rest on the answer. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 15, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
State of the union c Democrats and Republicans agree: without the Cold War, there's no reason to promote democracy abroad © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union c Democrats work to raise the bottom and cap the top Republicans work to push most middlers to the bottom and raise the remnant to the top  © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union For a Daily Beast  column back in 2011 I compared opposition-party levels of support in Congress for George W. Bush and Barack Obama on four of each president's major initiatives. The average Democratic support for Bush on those four bills was 41.1 percent. The average Republican support for Obama on his four bills was 5.75 percent. The two parties are  just different species.  Michael Tomasky, 2017/11/09  © 2017 Kwiple.com
State of the union Once again wealthy Americans and business interests have a great deal of political power. Once again the Senate is filled with multimillionaires; the Supreme Court is overturning popular legislation; and both major parties appear to be swayed by the wishes of the business and financial communities. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court to Democrats Abandon all hope, ye who enter here Dante, The Inferno,  Canto III © 2018 Kwiple.com
Taxes The Senate's three richest members – Democrats Mark Warner (VA), Richard Blumenthal (CT) and Diane Feinstein (CA) – voted against the 2017 tax bill. The Senate's three richest Republicans – Jim Risch (ID), Bob Corker (TN) and John Hoeven (ND) – voted for it. The House's three richest Democrats – John Delaney (MD), Jared Polis (CO) and Scott Peters (CA) – voted against the 2017 tax bill. 2 of the 3 richest House Republicans – Greg Gianforte (MT, richest)  and Michael McCaul (TX, 3rd richest) – voted for it. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpism Conservatives love to jeer Democrats for being obsessed with Trump, for letting him live, as many put it, rent-free in our heads. It's a cruel accusation, like setting someone's house on fire and then  laughing at them for staring at the flames. The outrage Trump sparks leaves less room for many other things – joy, creativity, reflection – but every bit of it is warranted. The problem is the president, not how his victims respond to him. Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, October 29, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpism Liberals and Democrats in particular need to distinguish between their ongoing battle with Republican policies and the challenge posed by Trump and his followers. One can be fought through the processes of the constitutional system; the other is an assault on the Constitution itself. Robert Kagan, Washington Post, September 23, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Democrats have so normalized hatred and violence against the president of the United States that I fear it will result in some crazy leftie trying to assassinate him. Jeanine Pirro © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat  T-shirt slogan seen at Trump rallies © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I'm not going to let Democrats and their water carriers in the media use Russia's attack on our democracy as a Trojan horse for partisan wish-list items that would not actually make our elections safer. Mitch McConnell, refusing to let the Senate vote on election security bills, leading to him being nicknamed “Moscow Mitch” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The problem the Democrats are gonna have is really simple. Everything they're gonna charge Trump with will be irrelevant to most Americans. You're driving your kids to soccer, you're worried about your mom in the nursing home, and you're thinking about your job, and you're going, This is Washington crap. Newt Gingrich © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say There hasn't been any non-evidence yet. A Trump supporter's response when asked why she believes QAnon's conspiracy theory that the government was run by pedophilic Democrats and Hollywood celebrities before Trump's ascension © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say They [Democrats] are not soft on crime. They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparations because they think  the people that do the crime are owed that. Bullshit! They are not owed that. Tommy Tuberville © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You see the Nazi platform in the early 1930s and what was actually put out there … and you look at it compared to like the DNC [Democratic National Committee] and you're saying, man, those things are awfully similar, to a point where it's actually scary. Donald Trump, Jr. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Villains say They [Congressional Democrats] were like, death. And un-American. Un-American. Somebody [pointing to the audience] said, “treasonous.” I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean they certainly didn't seem to love our coutnry very much. Donald Trump, to a rally of his supporters, who, like him, are too stupid to know why not clapping during his State of the Union address is neither un-American nor treasonous  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Whites  As late as the 1996 presidential election, counties that were at least 85 percent white and earned less than the national  median income split about evenly between  Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican Bob Dole. In the 2016 election, such counties went 658 for Donald Trump and two for Hillary Clinton.  Robert Kuttner. New York Review of Books, July 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Whites White Republicans have become more intolerant about the country's growing diversity. White Democrats haven't. That's the big change. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Whites With Obama, there was this narrative: “Woo, we have crossed the racial Rubicon! We have overcome! We put a Black man in the White House!” Without looking at the data that shows that a majority of white people did not vote for Barack Obama and that they have not voted for a Democratic candidate for president since 1964, the year Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Carol Anderson, New York Times Magazine, March 20, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com