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17 Montana Republicans Cross Party Lines, Defeat Anti-Trans Bill After Nonbinary Rep's Speech
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As it turns out politics is not absolute. There are less conservative Republicans and more conservative Democrats. I think in reality we should seek the middle ground. However, the news gets more attention if they go for the extremes.
Well the rest of the Republicans voted to censure them from the senate and ban them from the party. So as it turns out, there really are only extreme Republicans. If they aren't extreme they're banned from participating in the party.
nah. I've been alive a long time. Conservative policies, attitudes, and talking points have for many decades pointed to exactly the place we have landed, and for 8+ years now any Republican resistance whatsoever to Trump has been essentially undetectable, and the few actual Republican leaders who have stood up to him in any meaningful way have destroyed their own political careers.
The Republicans in power have clearly been cool with every single thing that has happened until these tariffs started to impact the wealthy. And who keeps voting in the Republicans in power? (and Trump himself) The rank and file.
Fuck them all, every last one. If these Republicans accidentally voted in a way that isn't going to harm someone, it's because they have another plan in mind or it otherwise benefits them in some way. I'm glad it happened because reasonable people get another chance to stop them, but no part of me thinks they won't try again.
Any Republican who hasn't spent the past several years raising hell in their own party about where Trump was taking it, and especially any who voted for him in 2024, is at best complicit in where we are today, and in wherever this finally bottoms out.