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2014 midterm elections It was Red vs. Blue Contemptibles Blame Obama vs. Obama who? Fuckheads playing a fucked up game sponsored by Supreme-Court-approved anonymouse ad-buying coaches, owners, paymasters, referees and rules makers © 2015 Kwiple.com
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2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason common core curriculum is gonna fry your kids' brains and turn them against you Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason Congress can't do shit Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason ebola is in the U.S. Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason government aid just goes to Them Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason Iraq's become a shithole Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason job creators ain't creatin' jobs Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason our borders are insecure Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason people think we're anti-women, anti-black, anti-union, anti-immigrant, anti-poor, anti-gay   Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason Russkies took the Crimea Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason states can't nullify federal laws Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason there's still a Black man in the White House Post-election reminder posted on right-wing blogs © 2015 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason they're out to get your guns Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Anti-democracy Republican Party leaders including Jason Chaffetz, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Ron Johnson, Peter King, Michael McCaul and James Sensenbrenner, and Fox News dumbass Sean Hannity openly call for a coup d'état by impeachment if Hillary Clinton is elected president © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Despite their hemming and hawing most Republican leaders closed ranks behind Trump, creating the image of a unified party. That, in turn, normalized the election. Rather than a moment of crisis, the election became a standard two-party race, with Republicans backing the Republican candidate and Democrats backing the Democratic candidate. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election In the end, the Republican Party rallied behind Donald Trump because if that was the deal needed to regain power, what was the problem? Because it had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was all a lie. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election Most white  working-class people voted for Donald Trump and the through line that you find is whiteness, not class and not gender. It's not like he only got men; he got a majority of white women too. So if you look at categories of white people you find Trump being dominant among them, in part because of the appeal he made, but also in part because the Republican Party has effectively become in this country the party of white people. Ta-Nehisi Coates © 2017 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election We got elected on Drain the Swamp, Lock Her Up, Build a Wall. … This was pure anger. Anger and fear is what gets people to the polls. Steve Bannon, in a 2018 interview © 2023 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election When you learn that the bank you borrowed money from is actually owned by a drug cartel, should your first reaction be, “Well, we got a good interest rate”? The simple reality is that the Republican Party was in buiness with Russian intelligence efforts, what used to be known as the KGB, and precious few leading the Republican Party seen to give a damn. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries It is getting to be like a  Sunni-Shia thing here within the party. Lindsey Graham, on the Republican Party after the 2016 South Carolina primary © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Republicans tempt voters with a plethora of lightweights and losers — Democrats, with fewer © 2015 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections No! Crowd's response when Trump asked them if he should tone it down just a little during his rally in Murphysboro, Illinois, on October 27, 2018, following the murder of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh earlier that day © 2018 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections They [people] should vote against Republicans in a spirit that is, if you will, prepartisan and prepolitical. Their attitude should be: The rule of law is a threshold value in American politics, and a party that endangers this value disqualifies itself, period. In other words, under certain peculiar and deeply regrettable circumstances, sophisticated, independent-minded voters need to act as if they were dumb-ass partisans. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes, “Boycott the Republican Party” © 2018 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections This is going to be  a challenging election year. We know the wind is going to be in our face. We don't know whether it's going to be a Category 3, 4 or 5. Mitch McConnell, Republican Senate Majority Leader, April 4, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election If the Republicans don't win in this election, I think we are officially at the end of the country as we know it. We may not survive even if we win, but we definitely don't if the Republicans lose with Donald Trump. Glenn Beck © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election This was their [Republicans'] moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection. Let us remember.  Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2022 midterm elections It's crystal, crystal, crystal clear.  We lose with Trump if we stick with Trump. If we dump Trump, we start winning. Paul Ryan, retired Republican Speaker of the House © 2023 Kwiple.com
2022 modterm election Plausible theories about why Republicans fared so badly in 2022 abound. … The economy? … Abortion? … Attacks on democracy? … All of these factors clearly played a role. But don't under-weight the impact of the performative obnoxiousness that now pervades Republican messaging. Conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs on Republican campaigns, then jobs in state and federal offices, and then jobs in conservative media. Dsvid Frum, The Atlantic, March 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election Close to half of Republicans (46%) and more than a quarter of Democrats (27%)  said they would not consider 2024 election  results to be legitimate if the other party’s presidential candidate won. … Some of them would go further:  14% of Republicans and 11% of Democrats surveyed said they would take action to overturn the 2024 election based solely on who is declared the winner. World Justice Project report on U.S. Rule of Law Trends and the 2024 Election © 2024 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election I think that we have to take Donald Trump very seriously. We have to take seriously the extent to which you have now got a Putin wing of the Republican Party. I believe the issue this election cycle is making sure the Putin wing of the Republican Party does not take over the West Wing of the White House. Liz Cheney © 2024 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election [I]f Donald Trump becomes the nominee of this party, the moment that it happened was when Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis, and Tim Scott and Mike Pence and Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy stood on that stage in Milwaukee in August, and when we were asked would you support someone who is a convicted felon to be President of the United States, they raised their hands. Give Ron credit. He had to look at everybody  else first to see if he wanted to raise his hand, but then he raised his hand. Kind of like  cheating off somebody’s paper in high school.  They raised their hands and I did not and will not and I cannot countenance that behavior. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Abortion For the Republicans,  the Supreme Court is all about abortions,  to which they remain staunchly opposed  right up to the moment their mistress gets pregnant. Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher, July 6, 2018, alluding to Tim Murphy, the anti-abortion Republican congressman who was forced to resign in October, 2017, for asking his mistress to get an abortion after a pregnancy scare © 2018 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
Abortion @IAHouseGOP just confirmed in committee that if a woman has a miscarriage after 20 weeks, she has to carry dead fetus to term @ProgressIowa, 6:40 PM – 29 Mar 2017, on a bill advanced by Republicans in the Iowa House of Representatives to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy © 2017 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
Alabama Republicans say  The age of consent is fourteen, period. Or whichever comes first. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Alabama Republicans say [White] Child molesters are our kind of people. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Anti-science Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue. Frank Luntz, Republican Party pollster and strategist © 2019 Kwiple.com
Asslickers Donald Trump could go to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and say, “Well, maybe if he'd done something, he wouldn't be so unknown,” and Republicans would be okay with that too. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, February 17, 2017 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Asslickers say I'm coordinating with White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this. Mitch McConnell, guaranteeing Republicans like himself would acquit Trump despite overwhelming evidence he abused his power and obstructed Congress © 2020 Kwiple.com
Authoritarians When faced with a would-be authoritarian, established politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend demo- cratic institutions—even if that means temporarily joining with bitter rivals. For Republicans entering the general election of 2016, the implications were clear. If Trump threatened basic demo- cratic principles, they had to stop him. To do anything else would put democracy at risk, and losing democracy is far worse than losing an election. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it  citation headline, Washington Post, August 10, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Senate Republicans and three Democrats – Joe Donnelly (IN), Heidi Heitkamp (SD)  and Joe Manchin (WV) – conspire to appoint Neil Gorsuch as Chief Injustice of the Supreme Court, deligitimizing themselves and it © 2017 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
Bullshitters say  » All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years with specific exceptions of Social Security,  Medicare, national security, veterans benefits, and other essential services. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again. Note to President Biden, Sen. Schumer, and Sen. McConnell — As you know, this was never intended to apply to Social Security, Medicare, or the US Navy. A subpoint of Point 6 of Rick Scott's “12 Point Plan,” a post-speech update of his “An 11 Point Plan to Rescue America”, which  was published long before the 2023 State of the  Union Address and included only the 1st, 5th, and 6th lines above, thereby justifying Biden's claim  that “some” Republicans supported sunsetting © 2023 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 On all three issues overwhelming majorities of likely Republican voters supported his [Trump's] positions: almost three quarters (73 percent) favored banning Muslims from entering the US, 90 percent favored identifying and and deporting illegal immigrants as quickly as possible, and 85 percent favored building a wall on the Mexican border. Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz, and Walter J. Stone, New York Review of Books,  June 23, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Perentage by which a young Republican is more likely to know a millionaire than a Muslim: 27 Harper's Index, August 2017 © 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
Capitalism The priority of capitalists is not the election of Republicans. It is the maintenance of public support for capitalism. If this is best achieved through some redistribution and regulation, it would not be the first time. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, March 13, 2019 © 2019 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
Children Statistically, kids are safer from mass shootings in a meatpacking plant than in a school. Maybe they'll lose a limb, but hey, they'll probably survive. … Best of all, they're cheap  and their brains haven't developed enough to form unions! Arguments advanced by a lobbyist for water-downed child labor laws like those being passed in many Republican-led states, as represented in an April 26, 2023, cartoon by Jen Sorensen © 2023 Kwiple.com
Christianity Donald Trump's leaked remarks to evangelical leaders last month contained a telling choice of possessive pronoun: “I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote.” Another Republican president might have referred to “our people”. This one does not feign membership of the flock. He tables an earthly bargain: it is me, or a Democrat; Brett Kavanaugh, or a liberal justice, on the US Supreme Court. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Disloyal R[epublican]s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don't know how to win – I will teach them. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Conservatives Maybe you do not care about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy. David Frum, Trumpocracy © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in! Donald Trump, 10:17 PM - 17 Jul 2017, either unaware or not caring that repealing without replacing Obamacare is likely to raise premiums by 50% and result in 32 million people losing coverage – 10 million more than by repealing it and replacing it with either GOP-concocted Trumpcare bill, which GOP senators killed rather than pass into law © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The Republican Party will become “the Party of Healthcare!” Donald Trump, 9:58 AM – 26 Mar 2019, after having having announced his plan to to use the courts to overturn Obamacare in its entirety and to deprive tens of millions of Americans of healthcare insurance © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democracy It couldn’t be more simple. A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy Democracy. Rob Reiner, 8:03 AM – Apr 20, 2022, on the Republicans during the Trump era © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democracy  There is no easy way to stop a major party that’s intent on destroying democracy. The demonic energy with which Trump  repeats his lies, and Bannon harangues his  audience, and Republican politicians around the country try to seize every lever of election machinery — this relentless drive for power by American authoritarians is the major threat that America confronts. The Constitution doesn't have an answer. No help will come from Republican leaders; if Romney and Susan Collins are all that stand between the republic and its foes, we’re doomed. George Packer, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 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
Dysfunction in government The self-styled “Young Guns” [Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan] decided to make the GOP the “Party of No.” The United States was mired in the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, yet Republican legislators planned to not  cooperate with the new [Obama] administration. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dysfunction in government There is the assumption  – pioneered by Newt Gingrich himself, as early as the 1970s – that the minority wins when Congress accomplishes less. Steny Hoyer © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dysfunction in government We always do this fucking dance. I don't know if people are going to put their sane minds on and do what needs to be done, or shut it down. This is just a ridiculous exercise. I can't even compare it to anything I do on the farm that's this stupid. Jon Tester, Montana farmer and Senator, on the Republicans' penchant for threatening to not raise the debt ceiling, shut down the government and defaullt on the nation's debt during Democratic administrations © 2021 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
Economic growth What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher. George W. Bush © 2015 Kwiple.com
Election meddling Yes I did. Yes I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal. Vladimir Putin, responding to a reporter who asked him at the Helsinki summit press conference, “Did you want President Trump to win the election? And did you direct  any of your officials to help him do that?” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Election officials Only one-third of Republicans (34%) and two-thirds of Democrats (67%) believe election officials are trustworthy. World Justice Project report on U.S. Rule of Law Trends and the 2024 Election © 2024 Kwiple.com
Extremism One reason Republicans keep radicalizing is that, unlike Democrats, they don't need to win over the majority of voters. Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, September 11, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Freedom There are, I think, four freedoms we can glean from the Republican program. There is the freedom to control — to restrict the bodily autonomy of women and repress the existence of anyone who does not conform to traditional gender roles. There is the freedom to exploit — to allow the owners of business and capital to weaken labor and take advantage of workers as they see fit. There is the freedom to censor — to suppress ideas that challenge and threaten the ideologies of the ruling class. There is the freedom to menace — to carry weapons wherever you please, to brandish them in public, to turn the right of self-defense into a right to threaten other people. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, May 19, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gerrymandering Armed with census data, Republican lawmakers [in Wisconsin in 2011] drew districts to maximise their political advantage. In the 2012 elections, Republicans won 48.6% of the vote but took 60 of the state assembly's 99 seats., In 2014 and 2016, their 52% of the vote got them 63 and 64 seats. The Economist, October 7, 2017 [2012: 60/99 = 60.6% = 1.25 × 48.6%] [2014: 63/99 = 63.6% = 1.22 × 52%] [2016: 64/99 = 64.6% = 1.24 × 52%]  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Gerrymandering In Pennsylvania five years ago, Republicans won 13 of 18 House seats with just 49% of the statewide vote. North Carolina's map gives Republicans ten seats and Democrats three, despite close statewide votes. When asked why, a Republican lawmaker who headed the redistricting process said, “Because I do not believe it's possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats.” The Economist, October 7, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Global warming US investors’ enthusiasm for green investments has begun to wane in the face of repeated attacks on “woke capitalism” by Republicans, in a growing contrast to the billions still pouring into sustainable strategies in Europe. Funds marketed with a sustainable label were hit with $12.4bn in net outflows in the US in the past 12 months even as green funds in Europe added $126.3bn, according to the data provider Morningstar. Financial Times, April 28, 2023 © 2023 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
Government Republicans tell you right out front, we hate government. Then why go into it? If you hate government, you shouldn't do it. That's why I'm not a priest. Bill Maher © 2016 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Thoughts and prayers for Republicans in November Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 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 lobbyists say to Republican legislators  We paid for you and don't you ever forget it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Healthcare House Republicans make healthcare great again by passing Trumpcare bill offering two options: Go broke   OR   Go without May 4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Healthcare Only 24 million will lose insurance? Only 52 million will be uninsured? That's not enough, God dammit!  Republican Party House Freedom to Die Caucus Justin Amash (MI) Jeff Duncan (SC) Alex Mooney (WV) Brian Babin TX) Trent Franks (AZ) Gary Palmer (AL) Rod Blum (IA) Tom Garrett, Jr. (AZ) Steve Pearce (NM) Dave Brat (VA) Paul Gosar (AZ) Scott Perry (PA) Jim Bridenstine (OK) Morgan Griffith (VA) Ted Poe (TX) Mo Brooks (AL) Andy Harris (MD) Bill Posey (FL) Ken Buck (CO) Jody Hice (GA) Mark Sanford (SC) Warren Davidson (OH) Jim Jordan (OH) Dave Schweikert (AZ) Ron DeSantis (FL) Raul Labrador (ID) Randy Weber (TX) Scott DesJarlais (TN) Thomas Massie (KY) Ted Yoho (FL) Mark Meadows (NC) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Healthcare You have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead. You will glow in the dark on this one.  Nancy Pelosi, to House Republicans, on passing their Trumpcare bill, May 4, 2017  © 2017 Kwiple.com
History In this paper, we show that the local prevalence of slavery — an institution that was abolished 150 years ago — has a detectable effect on present-day political attitudes in the American South. … That is, the larger the number of slaves  per capita in his or her county of residence in 1860, the greater the probability that a white Southerner today will identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express attitudes indicating some level of “racial resentment.” Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, Maya Sen, The Political Legacy of American Slavery [2016] © 2021 Kwiple.com
History The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.  It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Home rule The 20th-century movement toward home rule, or letting localities handle most of their own affairs, was once supported by both Republicans and Democrats. What's now become clear is that Republicans dislike local control if they are not in charge of it. The home rule movement has steadily faded in the last few decades as state lawmakers on the right have become more aggressive in invalidating the priorities of elected officials in cities, which have moved leftward in their voting patterns in recent years. New York Times, June 3, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Hypocrisy Of course, Democrats are screaming now about Republican hypocrisy over Trump filling the Ginsburg seat in an election year. “They said one thing when it was Obama and now they're saying  the complete opposite. How can they sleep at night?” I'll tell you how. Like babies.  Because, like babies, they have no morals. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Sept. 25, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Hypocrisy A report that came out at CNN says Republicans call Biden infrastructure program socialism, and then they ask for the money. And it goes through all of the Republicans, those who call it socialism and how they’re asking. [names several identified in the report] I can go down the list. Look it up. Socialism. I didn't know there were that many socialist Republicans. Joe Biden, October 14, 2022 [CNN named: Mark Amodei (NV), Andy Barr (KY), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Lauren Boebert (CO), Larry Bucshon (IN), Jerry Carl (IN), Jim Comer (KY), Tom Emmer (MN), Joni Ernst (IA), Randy Feenstra (IA), Michelle Fisch- bach (MN), Carlos Giménez (FL), Paul Gosar (AZ), Vicky Hartzler (MO),  Ashley Hinson (IA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS), Jim Inhofe (OK), John Joyce (PA), Trent Kelly (MS), Darin LaHood (IL), Debbie Lesko (AZ), Julia Letlow (LA), Nancy Mace (SC), Tom McClintock (CA), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA), Markwayne Mullin (OK), Rand Paul (KY), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA), Mike Rounds (SD), John Rutherford (FL), María Elvira Salazar (FL), Richard Shelby (AL), John Thune (SD), Pat Toomey (PA), Tommy Tuberville (AL), David Valadao (CA) © 2022 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Voter ID laws are needed to stop voter fraud and voting by noncitizens © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Voter ID laws aren't aimed at Democratic voters © 2017 Kwiple.com
Immigration As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America. I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me.  I say, that’s OK. Please blame it on me.  Please. Donald Trump, January 28, 2024, proudly trying to block a bipartisan Senate border security bill that gives Republicans every border security provision they've been  clamoring for for years without providing a path to citizenship for immigrsnts already here, because he believes border security will be a winning issue for him in the 2024 election © 2024 Kwiple.com
Immigration The secret's out. For Republicans, the border is a moneymaking grievance machine. And if we passed our border bill and fixed the problem, Republicans literally wouldn't know what to do with their days. … Republicans killed the toughest bipartisan border bill that they have ever seen because they don't want to fix the border. They want to keep it a mess because they think it helps them politically. Chris Murphy,  the Democrat who negotiated the border bill with Republican James Lankford that Trump ordered Republican senators to kill, which they did © 2024 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
Kwiple dictionary Republican Party (ri pub'li kən pär'tē), n. The native habitat of the common American fat-lipped toady. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say I accuse Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes (CA), Chairman Paul Ryan (WI), Ex officio Mike Conaway (TX) Tom Rooney (FL) Rick Crawford (AR) I. Ros-Lehtinen (FL) Trey Gowdy (SC) Elise Stefanik (NY) Will Hurd (TX) Chris Stewart (UT) Peter King (NY) Mike Turner (OH) Frank LoBiondo (NJ) Brad Wenstrup (OH) of abrogation of duty in investigating the degree of Russian interference in the 2016 elections ——— Specific charges ——— • Failing to call key witnesses • Failing to verify witness statements • Failing to supboena uncooperative witnesses & witnesses who lied • Leaking secrets for partisan gain • Denying Putin favored Trump • Failing to inform Democratic committee members of meetings • Prohibiting Democratic input to written committee reports • Failing to await special counsel Robert Mueller's findings • Putting Republican Party interests above the nation's © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say If you don't know whose ass Republicans are kissing, you're not paying attention  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say The lying has to stop. The liars have to be put down. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Obama's the Republicans' white whale © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say  A reminder to Republicans: Red wave means menstruation © 2018 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 Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican. Donald Trump, 5:45 AM – 24 Oct 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Lies The Republican Party is no longer just obfuscating the truth or defending the president when he is accused of wrongdoing. Rather, Mr. Trump, Fox News and Republicans in Congress seem to be actively using falsehoods to prepare an assault on the institutions that allow American democracy to function. Yascha Mounk, New York Times, December 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Moderate Republicans say Deeply cutting spending on healthcare after four years instead of three is change I believe in © 2017 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
Money in politics Performative fundraising is a prism through which to understand not only the GOP activity during the impeachment hearings but also the Republicans' Benghazi hearings and the end- less posturing around repealing Obamacare. It's not about achieving policy goals as much as energizing the base and separating them from their cash. Performative fundraising favors simplistic narratives, melodramatic rhetoric, an implacable enemy, and rote phrases to crowd out reasoned debate. Snippets of the act become fundraising pitches. Facebook microtargeting and e-mail lists ensure that pitches reach conservative retirees, especially in sunbelt states like Florida, California and Texas. Jake Bernstein, New York Review of Books, April 23, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Mudslingers say The leadership are all cunts. Steve Bannon, CEO of Trump's presidential campaign, on leaders of the Republican Party © 2016 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
Polarization Many voters dislike their own party, but detest the other one. For Republicans, there's something else driving their radicalisation: they are a white tribe that fears demographic extinction. “A majority of infants born [in the US] today, are non-white,” notes [Ezra] Klein [author of Why We're Polarized ]. The most common age for white Americans is 58; for Hispanics, it's 11, says economist Jed Kolko. Many Republican regions are depopulating. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, February 27, 2020 © 2020 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 fifty Republican Senators represent  a population that comprises approximately forty-one million fewer citizens than the Democrats represent. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Political inequality In the past three House elections, Republicans' share of House seats has been 4-5 percentage points greater than their share of the two-party vote. In 2012 they won a comfortable 54% of the chamber despite receiving fewer votes than their Democratic opponents; in 2014 they converted a 51% two-party-vote share into 55% of the seats. Economist, July 12, 2018 © 2018 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 inequality Wisconsin's legislative maps drawn in 2011, protected Republican supermajorities even after Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, was defeated last year. Republican candidates for the State Assembly won just 46 percent of the popular vote, but they captured 64 percent of the chamber's seats. New York Times, January 3, 2019 © 2019 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
Populism Post-Reagan Republicans reached out to the base by campaigning on cultural issues, while legislating for the upper 1 per cent. That is “pluto-populism”. … Pluto-populism is highly politically effective. But it works by making the base ever angrier and more desperate. That is playing with political fire. The republic may survive Mr Trump. But what comes after? Martin Wolf, Financial Times, May 2, 2017 © 2018 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 Of the 217 Republicans who voted for the [Trumpcare] plan, just 14 will hold town halls during the recess, according to the schedule of events compiled by TownHallProject.com. The Guardian, May 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred. There are no good neo-Nazis, and those who espouse their views are not supporters of American ideals and freedoms. Mitch McConnell, like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and other Republicans who fear being primaried by Trump supporters the next time they run, scoring easy points by bemoaning hatred without condemning Trump by name © 2017 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 A series of lawsuits alleging that that the U.S. government sought to suppress conservative speech, including one launched by Missouri and Louisiana that has now reached the Supreme Court,  has effectively tried to silence organizations that investigate both domestic and foreign  disinformation campaigns, overt and covert. To state baldly what is happening;  the Republican Party's right wing is actively harassing legitimate, good-faith efforts to track the production and distribution of autocratic disinformation here in the United States. Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, June 2024 © 2024 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
Race What happens if you spend decades focused on appealing to white voters and treating nonwhite voters with, at best, benign neglect? You get good at doing what it takes to appeal to white voters. That is the truth that led to what is famously called “the southern strategy.” That is the path that leads you to becoming what the Republican Party now proudly embraces: a white grievance party. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Racism If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row. Cindy Hyde-Smith, 2018 Republican candidate for Senator from Mississippi, where 539 blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1968, to a supporter at a campaign stop © 2018 Kwiple.com
Racism You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger” – that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, “forced busing,” “states' rights,” and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a by- product of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. … “We want to cut this” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” Lee Atwater, 1981 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republican congressmen The average Republican congressman is in a safe seat with an electorate he chose himself and he's only scared of only two things; a primary opponent with more guns on his Christmas card and getting a nickname from Trump. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, January 26, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republican Party As a party, we need to be willing to take the responsibility for the part we’ve played in getting here. Our country is angry. It’s divided. It’s accomplishing little, and it is  leading our citizens to be exhausted. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republican Party At some point, the blame for modern Republicanism must pass from the party to an electorate that could cure it at once by levying harsher political costs. Until then, the strictly tactical case for renouncing either Trump or his fabled-ism will remain weak within the party. Moderate Republicans are left to petition their colleagues' consciences and principles instead. It is only necessary to read that sentence to despair of their chances. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, April 27, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party A certain form of partisanship is now a moral necessity. The Republican Party, as an institution, has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy. The problem is not just Donald Trump; it's the larger political apparatus that made a conscious decision to enable him. In a two-party system, nonpartisanship works only if both parties are consistent democratic actors. If one of them is not predictably so, the space for nonpartisans evaporates. We're thus driven to believe that the best hope of defending the country from Trump's enablers, and of saving the Republican Party from itself, is to … vote mindlessly and mechanically against Republicans at every opportunity, or until the party either rights itself or implodes (very preferably the former). Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party The contortions of Pence as he twisted himself into knots to try to justify the unjustifiable [promising to support Trump in 2024 after declaring him unfit for office] is symptomatic of a larger  discomfort gripping elders and sages of the Republican party now that the 15-month stagger-up to the election is under way.  Most simply expressed, the question is this:  are populism and conservatism reconcilable? Which of the two ideologies — for they are not only distinct but deeply contrary — constitutes the real Republican party?  Simon Schama, Financial Times, September 2, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party Donald Trump didn't hijack the G.O.P. He understood it. Ezra Klein, May 5, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party For all of you who get frustrated because Manchin and Sinema don't vote like true liberals — because they never were — or think Trump is as bad as it's going to get, remember the first rule of modern Republican politics: they always go lower, because this party has no bottom, unless you count Lindsey Graham. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, April 1, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republican Party God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function. Robert Novak © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republican Party (1) The GOP has become the party of Trumpism. (2) Trumpism is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law. (3) The Republican Party is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law. If the syllogism holds, then the most-important tasks in U.S. politics right now are to change the Republicans' trajectory and to deprive them of power in the meantime. In our two-party system, the surest way to accomplish these things is to support the other party, in every race from president to dogcatcher. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party If Mr Trump were a marsupial, the Republican party would be in his pouch.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 18, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party  If only the Grand Old Party were at stake, the nation could leave them to it. But no democracy can prosper long without two responsible parties. It is of existential import to the US (and to the world it helps to anchor) that Republican moderates prevail.  How tragic, then, that they probably won't. Their first problem is the depth and age of the internal rot. Republicans have to undo decades of flirtation with paranoid elements, not just five years' worth. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 12, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates. attributed to Bob Dole, 2010 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republican Party In Wall Street and NBC News polling, the share of the party held by white voters with a college education dropped from 40% to 25% over the last decade or so —  still a significant faction but less influentisl. Wall Street Journal, January 20-21, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republican Party It's the white thing to do © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics. Newt Gingrich, June 14, 1978, who set out to change all that © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party One reason the Republican party was so easy for Trump to pick off in the last decade was that it had the mental habits of the corporate C-suite and the Chamber of Commerce. Party grandees assumed that Trump was a rational actor who had a price: flattery, fame, a measure of influence. Pay it, and he’d be their creature. They had little concept of the zeal of his movement, because they had little concept of zeal. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 12. 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time. Bob Dole, 1993, on GOP dealings with the Clinton administration © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republican Party The party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln. George W. Bush, at the NAACP 2000 national convention © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republican Party Republican moderates are up against the structural vagaries of US politics.  The system's counter-majoritarian features allow the party to remain competitive and powerful without appealing far outside its base. … Wyoming’s 600,000 people cancel out California's 40m in the Senate. Nothing here is improper. The constitution was never meant to privilege raw tonnage of votes. But it does mean Republicans do not face the same incentive — moderate or perish — that  keeps parties honest in some other democracies. To get anywhere, reform-minded Republicans must petition their colleagues' consciences, not their interests. Even to write that sentence is to sigh at the hopelessness of the errand. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Jan. 12, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party [T]he Republican Party has come to shape itself around his [Trump's] person, it has also adopted his worldview, which is to say, the worldview and ideology of the boss. No longer content to run government for  business, the Republican Party  now hopes to run government as  a business. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party The Republican Party today is a zombie party. Robert Kagan, Washington Post, September 23, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party  The Republicans are just too crazy right. What's going on is just nuts. Donald Trump, 1999, explaining why he quit the Republican Party to join Ross Perot's Reform Party © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party Right now, it's basically the Titanic. We're like, you know, in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it's fine. And meanwhile, as I've said, you know, Donald Trump's running around trying to find women's clothing and get on the first lifeboat. Adam Kinzinger, May 8, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party The second unforgivable sin is Trump's encouragement of a foreign adversary's interference in U.S. electoral processes. Leave aside the question of whether Trump's cooperation with the Russians violated the law. He at least tacitly collaborated with a foreign intelligence operation against his country–sometimes in full public view. This started during the campaign, when he called upon the Russians to steal and release his opponent's emails, and has continued during his presidency, as he equivocates on whether foreign intervention occurred and smears intelligence professionals who stand by the facts. Meanwhile, the Republican Party has confirmed his nominees, doggedly pursued its agenda on tax reform and health care and attacked–of course–Hillary Clinton. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party So why have we come to regard the GOP as an institutional danger? In a nutshell, it has proved unable or unwilling (mostly unwilling) to block assaults by Trump and his base on the rule of law. Those assaults, were they to be normalized, would pose existential, not incidental, threats to American democracy. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party  There is no Republican Party.  There's a Trump party. The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere. John Boehner © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party Trump brought the three horsemen of the apocalypse — immorality, dishonesty and bigotry. The party, complicit in all that, is dead to me, even though, I have to say,  a good chunk of my friends are Republicans. David Brooks, New York Times, January 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party We cannot be dragged backward by the very dangerous lies of a former president. Liz Cheney, after being stripped of her role as House GOP conference chair on May 12, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term. Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator from South Carolina © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republican Party We are the party of Lincoln. We are not the party of QAnon or anti-Semitism or Holocaust deniers, or white supremacy or conspiracy theories. Liz Cheney, whistling past the graveyard after being censured by Wyoming Republicans for saying Donald Trump should have no role in the Party going forward © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party We shouldn't be the party of No! We should instead be the party of Hell no!! Bobby Jindal © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republican Party What happened to the Republican Party is that slowly over half a century the kooks and weirdos and social misfits of a conservative ideology started discovering that they could force reasonable people to support unreasonable positions through fear. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Republican Party What's true of Republicans in Wisconsin is true of Republicans nationwide. There is no part of the Republican Party – not its president in the White House, not its leadership in Congress, not its conservative allies on the Supreme Court, not its interest groups or its affiliated media – that has an interest in or commitment to a fair, equal and expansive democracy. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, April 10, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party When people get on a bad path, whether it's drinking or gambling or political or religious fanaticism, they tend to follow it all the way to the bottom, at which point they either die or have that proverbial moment of clarity. I've been waiting for Republicans to have a moment of clarity for a while now — after Biden’s victory, or Jan. 6, the midterms, Trump's dinner with Kanye West. I had a flicker of hope that the Kevin McCarthy debacle last week would open some eyes, but probably not. Part of the problem is that so many Republicans no longer get into politics to pass legislation. They do it to become celebrities. The more feverish they are, the better it sells. Bret Stephens, New York Times, January 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republican Party militants They pass meaningless resolutions that praise God, motherhood and country but don't do anything. They stick it to little people, because little people don't have access to information and can't fight back. They rely on a huge tub of money that flows into their party coffers to drown out objections. They have a huge juggernaut of private foundation money organized by the right- wing economic elite and they pour money into these so-called think tanks to pretend that independent research verifies their world view. David Obey [1999] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party motto Heads we win. Tails we coup.  citation Slogan for the Trumpist Republican Party suggested by Bill Maher, April 22, 2022, Real Time with Bill Maher © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republican Party motto Perfecting minority rule since 1971 citation 1971 is the year Lewis Powell was appointed to the Supreme Court after authoring the Powell Manifesto encouraging business executives to strangle progtressivism by creating front organizations to infiltrate and capture campuses, Congress, courts, government and the media © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republican Party motto Rule or ruin. citation Suggested by Jamie Raskin, April 27, 2022, © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republican Party platform Kill unions. Gerrymander. Disenfranchise. Pimp for polluters. Let infrastructure rot. Ignore  public  opinion. Shut down government. Kiss Grover Norquist's ass. Stuff courts with party hacks. Defund  objectional  programs. Deny man-made climate change. Enrich the rich at others' expense. Feed our talking points to Fox News. Give businesses retroactive tax breaks. Fake concern for immigrants and women. Immunize corporations from regulators. Immunize corporations from law suits. Remind the poor what they're worth. Wear flag pins wherever you go. Claim race no longer matters. Shred safety nets. Spend on war. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republican Party vision America astride the world like a jockey on its steed © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain.  Liz Cheney, June 9, 2022, during the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!  Donald Trump, 10:48 AM – 23 Oct 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republicans Republicans do not cover up. Republicans do not go ahead and threaten. Republicans do not go ahead and commit illegal acts. And, God knows, Republicans don't view their fellow Americans as enemies to be harassed. Republicans look upon their fellow Americans as human beings to be loved and wanted. Lowell Weicker, 1973, expressing dismay at discovering during the Watergate hearings that Republicans were doing what he imagined they weren't © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Abdicating global leadership in a fit of petulance is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Abolish the minimum wage © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say All employment should be “at-will,” when redefined to mean all employers should have the right to fire anyone at any time for any or no reason without exception  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  » All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again. A subpoint of Point 6 of Rick Scott's “An 11 Point Plan to Rescue America”, written, he said, because “Americans deserve to know what we [Republicans] will do when given the chance to govern” after the 2022 midterm elections  [Social Security, Medicare, and veterans benefits are all federal legislation they would sunset/end, most likely forever] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing any citizen to demand a hearing to challenge instructional materials about evolution or global warming is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing employers to force employees to give up their right to join class action suits against them is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing employers to steal wages from tipped workers is change we believe in  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing – even encouraging – lenders to charge Blacks and Latinos higher interest rates for car loans is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing fugitives to buy guns – except those who crossed state lines specifically to avoid being captured – is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing insurance companies to charge higher fees to people with trauma from sexual assault is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing ISPs to sell users' browsing history is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing those adjudicated to be seriously mentally ill to buy guns is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say America sucks © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Anti-discrimination statutes allow men dressed as women to enter women's bathrooms to listen to girls pee and poop © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Appointing people seeking to demoralize, disable and dismantle a government department to be its leader is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Aren't you embarrassed? Mitt Romney, to Trumpists booing him at a May, 2021, Utah GOP convention © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Arming police with military gear is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Banning transgender people from serving in the miiitary in any capacity is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Bash the press © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Beliefs needn't correspond with reality © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say (((Bernie Sanders))) © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The best government officials are see-no-evil officials © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The best captain for the ship of state is someone who's never sailed © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Bibi Netanyahu makes me orgasm © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Blacks? We don't need no blacks! © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Blocking women on Medicaid from using their insurance at Planned Parenthood is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Budgeting based on magical thinking is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Burying data about climate change and making it available only through freedom of information requests is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Buzz cutting where trimming would do is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Call them “bureaucrats,” not “civil servants” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Castrating the State Department is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Christians have rights others don't, like discriminating against gays and getting paid for not doing their job © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Civility signals servility © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Coddle monopolists © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Condoning violations of recusal commitments is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cook the books with supply side sauce © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Criminalizing political speech is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say C-suites are good for you © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Currying favor with large corporations by allowing ISPs to slow down people's internet service is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination in education is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws requiring schools to reduce/address sexual harassment and violence is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cut diplomatic relations with Cuba again © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cut down safety nets © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cut funding for public schools, raise it for charter schools © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cutting funding for national parks is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cutting funding for rental assistance is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cutting funding for statistical agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau is change we believe in  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say DACA rhymes with caca © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding Planned Parenthood is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding programs opposing racism and extremism is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding programs providing legal assistance to women trying to escape domestic violence is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Democracy can't be trusted: check it at the door to the voting booth  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Democracy without theocracy is anarchy © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Democrats aren't rivals; they're enemies to be vanquished © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Denying food stamps to anyone capable of doing any kind of work, regardless of whether it's available, what it pays, or what it costs them or their families is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Disabled people? We don't need no disabled people! © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Discontinuing the use of the Department of Justice's authority to investigate or reform local police, however egregious their behavior, is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Discouraging competent people from joining government is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Distrust city dwellers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Distrust democracy © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Do what dicks would do © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say )))Donald Trump((( © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Don't trust the United States to stick to its agreements Kelly Ayotte Chuck Grassley Rob Portman John Barrasso Orrin Hatch Jim Risch Roy Blunt Dean Heller Pat Roberts John Boozman John Hoeven Mike Rounds Richard Burr Jim Inhofe Marco Rubio Bill Cassidy Johnny Isakson Ben Sasse John Cornyn Ron Johnson Tim Scott Tom Cotton Mark Kirk Jeff Sessions Mike Crapo James Lankford Richard Shelby Ted Cruz Mike Lee Dan Sullivan Steve Daines John McCain John Thune Mike Enzi Mitch McConnell Thom Tillis Joni Ernst S. Moore Capito Pat Toomey Deb Fischer Jerry Moran David Vitter Cory Gardner Rand Paul Roger Wicker Lindsey Graham David Perdue © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Elevating hard power over soft power is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Eliminating funding for the Childen's Health Insurance Program is change we believe in. After all, why should we pay for their kids' healthcare? © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Eliminating rules aimed at reducing exposure to the carcinogen beryllium is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Encouraging sycophancy is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Enlarging Fortress America at the expense of the non-rich is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Enrich and empower the few by discrediting government © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Entrepreneurs – America's true heroes – deserve more respect than employees © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Evolution is just a theory, not a fact © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Extremism in the defense of Trump is no vice.  Moderation in attacking his opponents is no virtue. © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Favor the fortunate few © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Feelings Trump facts © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say For all we pay them, teachers better be willing to take a bulllet for the kids  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Force women impregnated by a rapist to give birth to the rapist's spawn © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Forcing individual complainants to ferret out proof of institutional bias by preventing government from investigating charges of it is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Free markets © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Fueling sectarian fires is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gay guys just haven't met the right woman yet © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gays? We don't need no gays! © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gerrymander to re-segregate © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Get hooked on Koch, whatever it's called Variants include: Alliance for School Choice, American Energy Alliance, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, Americans United for Life, Andrew Breitbart, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, Cathy McMorris Rogers, Cato Institute, Center to Protect Patient Rights, Charles and David Koch, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Chris Christie, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, Club for Growth, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Concerned Women for America, Dan Sullivan, David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, Dick Armey, Federalist Society, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, Freedom Partners Action Fund, FreedomWorks, Generation Opportunity, George C. Marshall Institute, Georgia Pacific, Glenn Beck, Goldwater Institute, Grover Norquist, Heritage Foundation, Institute for Energy Research, Institute for Humane Studies, Institute for Justice, Institute for Liberty, Jim Inhofe, Joe Barton, John Boehner, Joni Ernst, Julia Koch, Koch Industries Public Sector LLC, Koch Family Foundation, KochPAC, Lambe Foundation, Libertarian PartyWorks, Louie Gohmert, Manhattan Institute, Marco Rubio, Mercatus Center, Michele Bachmann, Mike Pompeo, Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Pacific Research Institute, Pat Roberts, Patients United Now, Paul Ryan, Reason Foundation, Rick Perry, Rush Limbaugh, Sam Brownback, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, State Policy Network, Steve King, TC4 Trust, Tea Party Patriots, Ted Cruz © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Get people working and make them happier by denying them Medicaid  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Give tax cheats tax breaks: underfund, understaff the IRS © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Give us our uneducated whites, Our southerners yearning for times past, Our downwardly mobile feeling slights They once lavished on a lower class © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Give women seeking an abortion a coat hanger and bottle of bleach © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Giving away or selling public lands is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Global warming stopped in 1998 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Governments can never succeed, markets can never fail © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gutting support for the disabled to make up for tax cuts for the rich is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Healthcare is a privilege, not a right © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Healthcare is a product like any other, to be sold only to those who can afford it © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Homophobes are people too © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Humble organized labor © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say I'm not going to answer that question. a.k.a. The I-just-don't-feel-like-it privilege © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say I'm wiith stupid © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say I want my country back © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say If it's not illegal, just do it! © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say If you can't afford health insurance, go gentle into that good night, invite the dying of the light, and do so out of sight, for our delight © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say I'll listen to the lady,  but we're going to bring this to a close. Here's what I want to tell you: in the very near future, Judge Kavanaugh will be on the United States Supreme Court. Lindsey Graham, before hearing testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, of sexually assaulting her when they were in high school © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Immunize corporate executives against criminal prosecution © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Imposing the “global gag rule” that prohibits any USAid funding going to NGOs that fail to certify they will not use funds from any source whatsoever to perform or even mention abortions anywhere in the world, is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Increasing global warming by increasing emissions from coal-fired power plants is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Increasing pollution and waste in national parks by overturning the ban on selling plastic water bottles there is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Independent ethics watchdogs? We don't need no stinkin' watchdogs! © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Instructing federal prosecutors to seek the highest possible penalty in all  cases is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Intellectual and developmental disabilities are pre-existing conditions  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Interests trump values © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Investigating anti-Trump protesters and throwing the book at them is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Is this still America? © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Israel is worth dying for © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say It's bigly easy to fuck over people economically if you convince them they're winning the culture war  a.k.a. Trump's Law  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say It's not bigotry – it's religious liberty © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Jesus was falsely accused too Slogan popular in Republican strongholds, especially as Make America Great Again becomes Many Are Getting Arrested © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Keep  'em  illegal. Subverts unions. Lowers wages. Raises profits. Increases dividends. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Keep opposing us and I'll have our boys negative-ad you to death © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Kill the messenger © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Launch investigations of opponents, not to prove they are guilty but to smear and bankrupt them © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Legislators should choose their voters, not voters their legislators © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Latinos? We don't need no Latinos! © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Let employers who oppose hiring employees require low-wage workers to incorporate themselves or pay franchise fees before hiring them © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Let financial institutions fuck consumers and students without accountability The deep story of attempts by Republicans like Jeb Hensarling to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Board, the only government agency whose purpose is to protect people from financial predators and the only one where people can register a complaint and track and view all complaints online © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Let markets rule, ruin and ravage © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting compromised individuals who are therefore susceptible to blackmail serve the President after they're known to be compromised is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Letting hunters kill hibernating bears is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting insurance companies sell health plans that don't cover “essential health benefits” is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting internet service providers (ISPs) sell customer browsing histories to advertisers is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting mining companies dump waste into streams again is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting people carry firearms on school property is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting Republican presidents use a presidential pardon to block the enforcement of a court order is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting the rich do whatever they want to is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Life's a zero sum game © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Limiting public participation in managing public lands in order to enhance the influence of oil and gas companies is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Lowering the age at which people can carry concealed weapons is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Make all abortions D.I.Y. abortions © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Make Christianity America's offical religion © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Make Israel's Iran policy ours Kelly Ayotte Chuck Grassley Rob Portman John Barrasso Orrin Hatch Jim Risch Roy Blunt Dean Heller Pat Roberts John Boozman John Hoeven Mike Rounds Richard Burr Jim Inhofe Marco Rubio Bill Cassidy Johnny Isakson Ben Sasse John Cornyn Ron Johnson Tim Scott Tom Cotton Mark Kirk Jeff Sessions Mike Crapo James Lankford Richard Shelby Ted Cruz Mike Lee Dan Sullivan Steve Daines John McCain John Thune Mike Enzi Mitch McConnell Thom Tillis Joni Ernst S. Moore Capito Pat Toomey Deb Fischer Jerry Moran David Vitter Cory Gardner Rand Paul Roger Wicker Lindsey Graham David Perdue © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Make voting harder © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Making infrastructure the road to quick profits by private investors is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Marriage is a union of one man and one woman © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Marry, early © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Money equals merit © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Monologue trumps dialogue © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say More boots on more ground © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Muslims? We don't need no Muslims! © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say My country, right or further right, my country!  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say My party has gone batshit crazy. Lindsey Graham, after the February 25, 2016, presidential primary debate in which Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump brayed like jackasses ad nauseam © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say My way or the highway © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Nobody will notice if you vote for a bill to appease public sentiment and then vote to prohibit the funding needed to implement it © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Nonbelievers should never be elected to public office © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Originalism when it favors us, the living Constitution when it doesn't © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Others' gains are our losses © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Pander to the base, pander to the polluters, piss away America's presitge John Barrasso (WY) Mitch McConnell (KY) Roy Blunt (MO) Rand Paul (KY) John Boozman (AR) David Perdue (GA) Thad Cochran (MS) Jim Risch (ID) John Cornyn (TX) Pat Roberts (KS) Mike Crapo (ID) Mike Rounds (SD) Ted Cruz (TX) Tim Scott (SC) Mike Enzi (WY) Richard Shelby (AL) Orrin Hatch (UT) Luther Strange (AL) Jim Inhofe (OK) Thom Tillis (NC) Mike Lee (UT) Roger Wicker (MS) Signers of a letter Republican Senators sent to President Trump calling for the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Party before country © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Passing laws by rubber-stamping bills written for us by corporate lobbyists is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Patriotism is when we release classified intelligence data, methods and sources to the public Treason is when others do it  The Putin Posse — — — — —  Donald Trump, founder and motivator Devin Nunes (CA), memo writer Mike Conaway (TX) Tom Rooney (FL) Rick Crawford (AR) I. Ros-Lehtinen (FL) Trey Gowdy (SC) Elise Stefanik (NY) Will Hurd (TX) Chris Stewart (UT) Peter King (NY) Mike Turner (OH) Frank LoBiondo (NJ) Brad Wenstrup (OH) © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Pee where your birth certificate says you belong © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say People vote for Democrats because they think Democrats will give them free stuff © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say People with the deepest pockets deserve the loudest voices © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Personal loyalty to the President far outweighs your eligibility for some damn security clearance heretofore needed for a job he wants you to have © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Pit working-class constituencies against each other white vs. black latin vs. both rural vs. urban employed vs. unemployed unionized vs. non-unionized private-sector vs. public-sector native-born vs. immigrant religious vs. secular young vs. old © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The poor must suffer disease that the rich may flourish © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Poor people? We don't need no poor people! © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preaching economic nationalism with no economic plan other than to make big corporations and the rich even richer relative to the rest is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Pressuring intelligence analysts to provide evidence for our policies is change we believe in © 2017 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 Preventing adoption of the “fiduciary rule” that requires financial advisers to put their clients' interests before their own is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preventing government agencies from discharging oversight responsibilities is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preventing investigation or disclosure of exemptions from ethics rules granted to lobbyists and administration officials is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Preventing public access to the White House visitors log to prevent anyone learning who's whispering in Trump's ears is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Privatize profits, socialize risks  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Privatize public schools © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Privatize Social Security © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Privatize the Veterans Administration — There's millions to be made caring for vets © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  The problem with guns is noise pollution. Making silencers cheap and easy to get is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Prohibit insurance companies from insuring doctors who perform abortions © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Protecting drivers from liability for injuring protesters on streets is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The purpose of government is to protect corporations and the rich from mobs © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Putting foxes in charge of guarding hen houses is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Rattle our sabers © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Real Americans are native-born, English-speaking, rural white Christians © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Reducing the salary threshold below which employers must pay overtime pay from $47,000 to $30,000 per year is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Reparations for Cuban refugees, none for American Indians or Blacks © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say [knowing the bill will be vetoed] Repeal Obamacare … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again … again  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say [knowing the bill would pass into law] Repeal Obamacare? Are you kidding? We were.  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Repealing anti-corruption rules requiring energy companies to disclose payments to foreign governments is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Replace elected mayors with emergency managers appointed by, and accountable to, the state legislature © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Representation without taxation © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Reverse racism is the real problem © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The rich need bigger tax cuts © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice air quality on the altar of costs to improve it © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice blue-collar jobs on the altar of tax cuts for the rich © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice employment on the altar of the inflation rate © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice equality on the altar of economic efficiency © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice public education, health care and infrastructure on the altars of military spending and tax cuts for corporations and the rich  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice public health on the altar of religious liberty © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice women on the altar of their unborn © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrificing the environment and public health to increase corporate profits is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrificing your healthcare to give tax cuts to rich people is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Scientific consensus about global warming is an elitist conspiracy to impose a world government on freedom-loving people © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Screw women's reproductive rights © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Self-deportation is the way to go © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Send ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Set the tone by ensuring that early presidential primaries are in states dominated by white evangelicals, like Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada, Alabama, Arkansas, etc. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sidestepping human rights issues is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Slashing funding for food stamps is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Snubbing commercial airlines is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say So what if Donald Trump pays no federal taxes | thinks those who do are stupid | evaded the draft |  belittles POWs & go ld star parents | denies having supported the Ir aq war | calls Mexicans rapists | wants to build a wall, exclude Muslims | insults & lies incessan tly | interrupts critics to divert attention | perso nifies narcissism |  is an adulterer | stalks, grop es women  | can't tell banter from bragging abo ut sexual assault | delegitimizes government, li beral democracy, a free press | wants nuclear w eapons to spread, a trade war with China | prais es dictators | asked Russians to hack Americans | never apologized for birtherism | defrauded in vestors & students | called it “Two Corinthians” | increases disrespect for America abroad | brag s about making money by running for president? — — — — — — — He's for cutting taxes on the rich and packing the Court with right wingers  W H I C H   I S   A L L  T H A T  M A T T E R S © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say So what if Donald Trump stiffs contractors who work for him |  uses only offshore manufacturers  |  hires undocumented immigrants  |  is a “business genius” who's had six bankruptcies and was bailed out by banks  | bans some news networks from his events | en courages libel suits against journalists | is only suddenly pro-life  | claims to read the Bible but can't name his favorite verse  |  is not an active member of any church | is among the least cha ritable billionaires ever  |  uses his foundation's money to buy things for himself and make polit ical contributions  |  is a fear mongerer | thinks saying things again and again makes them true | humiliates prominent Republicans  | is loweri ng support for us among groups our survival de pends upon | is killing our downballot chances? — — — — — — — He's for cutting taxes on the rich and packing the Court with right wingers  W H I C H   I S   A L L  T H A T  M A T T E R S © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Soft power? We don't need no soft power. We don't have to show you any stinking soft power. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The solution for bad government is no government © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The South shall rise again © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Staff top positions in government with businessmen too rich for lobbyists to buy © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Stopping studies of how pollutants created by mountaintop-removal mining cause birth defects, cancers and respiratory diseases is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Submit women seeking an abortion to a public shaming session © 2015 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court [L]ess than half of Democrats (47%) would trust the Supreme Court to fairly determine the winner of a contested election, compared to two-thirds of Republicans (67%). World Justice Project report on U.S. Rule of Law Trends and the 2024 Election © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republicans say The Supreme Court is ours. Period. End of discussion. © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Taking money away from public schools to fund private schools that discriminate against LGBTQ and other students is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Teachers? We don't need no public school teachers!  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Tear down that wall separating church and state © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Terrorize doctors who perform abortions © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for Christians who only care about abortion and homosexuality © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for people who believe it“s “liberal elites” who’re doin’ ’em dirt © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for people who don't care that shrinking government and cutting taxes on the very rich worsens other people's lives © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for people who don't vote © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for people who need semi-automatic assault weapons to hunt deer and varmints © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for white guys © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God poor people are too depressed to defend themselves © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say That global warming is man-made is mere conjecture © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Threatening investigators of the Trump Administration's or Republican Party officials' conflicts of interest is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say ’Tis a pity intelligence about Iraq was so bad © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Trump up claims of voter fraud and voting by noncitizens © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Undermining multilateral institutions is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Undermining science and people's respect for it is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate. Frank Luntz, Republican pollster and strategist and consultant to George W. Bush, recommedning adoption of a strategy originated by the Global Climate Coalition, an oil industry lobby group © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Voting on unwritten bills and bills for which there have been no hearings is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say We have an urge to purge voting rolls © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say We love it when Russians interfere to help us win elections Cnacибo, тoвapиши © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do. Karl Rove, 2004 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republicans say We're not going to get the Negro vote as a block in 1964 and 1968, so we ought to go hunting where the ducks are. Barry Goldwater, 1964, kicking off the Republican Party's still-ascendant “southern strategy” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Republicans say We're white. They're not. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Wealth and renown trump wisdom and virtue © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Wealthcare, not heallthcare © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Weaponize the census to guarantee that it undercounts existing and potential Democratic voters © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say What about my rights to limit your rights? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say What part of this is a Christian country don't you understand? © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say What would Bibi Netanyahu say? © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say What would the Koch brothers say? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say What would Sheldon Adelson say? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Whatever it takes, suppress the black vote, now and forever © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Whatever the cost, however it's measured, TO THIS ABOVE ALL ELSE BE TRUE: control attorneys general, control judgeships © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Who hates who? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Win by cheating © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Winners deserve more wins; losers more losses © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say c Without the Cold War, there's no reason to promote democracy at home © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Women? We don't need no women! © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Writing bills in secret with no input from Democrats, no hearings, and no public examination of details is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say You know we can't stop every act of gun violence, so why try to stop any? © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say You're on your own © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Young voters? We don't need no young voters! © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans to 1%ers How do I love thee? Let me count the way$ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans to public sector workers Screw you and your bargaining rights and pensions, except for police officers and firemen, who protect our private property and are largely white and male, and whom we love dearly for doing so and being such Scott Walker, Rick Snyder and other Republican governors
The Senate Had [Christine Blasey] Ford not been white – and from the professional class – you have to wonder whether the Republican men on the [Judiciary] committee would have completely dropped their patently phony concern for her welfare and stabbed her in the front instead of the back. Frank Rich, New York Magazine, September 28, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sentiments Republican Senators are incapable of feeling  Lew Rudin has given me too much money for me to vote for this. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic Senator from New York and  Senate Finance Committee chairman (1990s), commenting on a proposed tax bill that would greatly enrich Lew Rudin, a constituent, longtime friend and major donor © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sentiments Republican Senators are incapable of feeling  Lew Rudin has given me too much money for me to vote for this. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic Senator from New York and  Senate Finance Committee chairman (1990s), commenting on a proposed tax bill that would greatly enrich Lew Rudin, a constituent, longtime friend and major donor © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you call moderate Republicans. Rudy Giuliani © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Republicans care about good government © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say  Republicans really do care about promoting the general welfare – you can take their word for it  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Republicans would impeach Trump if he pardoned himself © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say This party does not prey on people's prejudices. Paul Ryan, Republican Party leader, reacting to Donald Trump's failure to reject support from racists and overlooking the Party's decades-long Southern strategy © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [It] was the “Contract with America” election that made Newt Gingrich into the Death Star of the Republican Party. No single political figure better illustrates the predicate for Donald Trump than Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich portrayed by Stuart Stevens [1994 election] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't know them, but I'm reminded of that old line from the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” movie where – where one character says, “Morons, I've got morons on my team.” And I have to think anybody that would sit down with white nationalists and speak at their conference was certainly missing a few IQ points. Marjorie Taylor Greene portrayed by Mitt Romney, after Greene spoke at the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference in Florida on February 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot When this week began, the biggest fear for many was that the [Senate Judiciary] Committee would not believe Christine Blasey Ford. But, by the time the week ended, it seemed that something darker might have happened because it seems their response was, “Oh, we believe you. We just don't care.” Christine Blasey Ford portrayed by John Oliver, September 30, 2018  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The new crop [of Republicans] are such foamimg-at-the-mouth Kraken releasers  that Clarence Thomas wants to marry them. Republicans running for office in 2022 portrayed by Bill Maher, April 1, 2022  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Trump was the moral test, and the Republican Party failed. It's an utter disaster for the long-term fate of the Party. The Party has become an obsession with power without purpose. Republican Party portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Ohioian, who combines an extreme lack of interest in governing with a governing interest in extremism, would be the perfect leader of this lapsed party. Jim Jordan portrayed by Matt Ford, in New Republic, October 17, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The Republican Party is the frog carrying the scorpion of Grover Norquist across the river. Grover Norquist portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Every time I see the sentence “Paul Ryan is the conscience of the Republican Party,” I think: What is that? Is that like being the quarterback of the New York City Ballet? Paul Ryan portrayed by Fran Lebowitz © 2017 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 This is how the Republiican Party has gotten votes for fifty years. Trump is just tearing off the mask. Now he just says right out the racism that was only barely hidden for so long. Donald Trump portrayed by Eric Foner (2016) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot There is nothing strange or unexpected about Donald Trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essense of the Republican Party. Trump isn't an aberration of the Republican Party; he is  the Republican Party in a purfied form. Donald Trump portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald was the Republican Party without the pretense. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in The Reckoning  © 2021 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 anti-democrat-in-chief asked, “Where's my Roy Cohn?” Republicans responded, “Here, boss!  Right here!”  © 2018 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 A fish rots from the head down Crux of the Trump era © 2018 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 For Europeans, today's America serves a useful function: a model for how not to run your society. The US has already demonstrated how easy it is to lurch into plutocracy, or to split a country into two hostile tribes. Now it is offering another cautionary lesson: how to let Russian interference succeed  by turning it into a partisan issue. Most Republicans are acting as if the problem isn't Russian meddling in the 2016 election but the FBI's handling of it. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, Feb. 8, 2018 © 2018 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
State of the union The poor state of so many Americans is in part a product of plutocratic politics: a relentless and systematic devotion to the interests of the very rich. … a politics of low taxes, low social spending and high inequality is sustainable in a universal suffrage democracy only with a mixture of propaganda in favour of “trickle down” economics, splitting the less well off on cultural and racial lines, ruthless gerry- mandering and outright voter suppression. All this has indeed happened. These are the politics of “pluto-populism” or of “greed and grievance”. They have been stunningly successful in making Republicans attractive to many in the white working class. Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 2018/07/17 © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union c Sudden, widespread alarm at Russian attempts to sow doubt about America's leaders, institutions and electoral integrity, coming after decades of well-funded, comparable, widely-applauded Republican efforts led by groups like Breitbart News, Fox News and Judicial Watch, and by party leaders like Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union Today, we may be witnessing a collision between the power of a remedy meant to curb presidential misconduct and the power of faction determined to defend against the use of that remedy on a president of the same party. But perhaps even more corrosive to our democratic system of governance, the President and his allies are making a comprehensive attack on the very idea of fact and truth. How can a democracy survive without acceptance of a common set of experiences? Adam Schiff, preface to Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report © 2019 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court to Republicans Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you Matthew 7:7 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Republican Party leaders shrieking, “I am shocked, shocked to find racists flocking to us!” while pursuing a Southern Strategy based on racial resentment since the 1960s --> © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Saying, “Nobody lives forever anyway,” Republicans, led by Paul Ryan, propose eliminating healthcare for the elderly, the poor and the sick An alternative fact [they proposed making it unaffordable  by anyone except the healthy wealthy, who'll get a big tax break to stay such]  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Saying, “Water's not just for drinking,” Republicans fulfill a campaign promise by passing the pro-polluter PIPSIS, The Piss in a Pond, Shit in a Stream Act of 2017 An alternative fact [they rescinded the Stream Protection Rule] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest That changes everything. He didn't say “shithole” – he said “shithouse.” Either way, Trump is being a complete asshouse who maybe, maybe, just maybe, doesn't belong in the White Hole. Stephen Colbert, commenting on reports Republicans are defending Trump by saying he called Haiti, El Salvador and African countries “shithouses,” not “shitholes.” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, January 16, 2018 © 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 I think what we discoverd in the Trump years is that the oligarchic pathway Republicans had carved before he came along was adjacent to authoritarianism . . . and with Trump they have made that leap. Biden gets this, interestingly enough. We now recognise in this moment what has actually been there for a long time. Now people see what’s been happening. Thank God. Heather Cox Richardson, quoted in Financial Times, July 16, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpism It has been written, and I've written it myself, that the Republicans have been weak in the face of Trumpism. But I've come to think that's wrong. They're not weak at all. Most of them are perfectly happy to have become Trump's vassals. They were waiting for just such a man. Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books, August 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpism The Republican Party was built on a coalition of the nation's biggest winners from globalization and its biggest losers. The winners wrote the policy; the losers provided the votes. While the party leaders coalesced upon more immigration, less secure health coverage, and one more Bush, the rank and file were frantically signaling: less immigration, better health coverage, and no more Bushes. David Frum, Trumpocracy  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists What set them apart from other Republicans was their economic insecurity and their cultural anxiety. David Frum, Trumpocracy  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpism As long as Donald Trump is breathing,  the odds are that he will run again in 2024. This has become clear not because his ambitions have changed — Trump is no longer concerned with his business except to prevent its collapse — but because Republicans are all in for Caesarism. The party as a whole now has one truth, which is whatever Trump says, even if it is different after breakfast than before. Edward Luce, Financial Times, July 29, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The Trumps will be a dynasty that will last for decades, propelling the Republican Party into a new party. One that will adapt to changing cultures. Brad Parscale, his 2020 campaign manager © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We have to ensure that  every single penny of every dollar donated [to the Republican National Committee] goes to causes that people care about. That’s part of the reason that I think I’m such a great fit for this.  There’s no one more loyal to Donald Trump  and the Make America Great Again move- ment than this person you’re looking at right here; than me. Lara Trump, Etric's wife and Trump's daughter-in-law on her appointment as co-chair of the RNC [The “causes” are reelecting Donald Trump and paying his legal bills; nothing else.] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Will Republicans use power? This is my question. Will they wield power, because if you have a single takeaway as the result stands right now, it is that what the Republican electorate wants is a strong executive who utilizes and wields power over his enemies and then destroys his enemies and makes them grovel — makes molten, salty tears flow from their faces, as Ron DeSantis did with Disney. Benny Johnson, the "Godfather of Conservative internet," Nov. 8, 2022, when Republicans won a slim majority in the House in the midterm elections © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine So why are Putin’s sympathisers making such inroads into the Republican party? Because Putin is Biden’s enemy, and the enemy of your enemy is your friend.  It is not much more complicated than that. There are genuine Putin backers on America’s hard right. But the bulk of his American fellow-travellers are dark opportunists, like Donald Trump. Anything that is harmful to Biden is good for them. Ukraine’s defeat would thus be good for Republicans.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Voting Lunatics vote in the primaries and Americans vote in the generals. That's why we don't have a Republican president. It's pretty simple. Fran Lebowitz © 2015 Kwiple.com
Wealth inequality To those that have is shall be given. That is the doctrine of Mr Trump. It is also the old Republican trickle-down doctrine in purest form. Martin Wolf, Financial Times, May 2, 2017 © 2018 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