Arizona Republicans will censure Doug Ducey, Jeff Flake, Cindy McCain

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

You can't make this stuff up.
Apparently Cindy McCain is an all-out villain, who committed such grievous penalties as:
- Being open about her struggle with a painkiller addiction
- Expressing support for gay marriage, which is apparently an affront to wholesome GOP values
- Standing by her husband, who was rightly criticised by Trump for being a bad person.
- Not supporting Trump's attacks on her late husband.
- Supporting "globalists", because apparently the AZ GOP is run entirely by antisemitic dogwhistlers.

Arizona Central Article:
https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/01/09/maricopa-county-republican-committee-votes-censure-cindy-mccain/6609185002/

Tweet thread:
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1348043697204596736/photo/1

Those are things she's been doing for years, so why are they just now getting mad at her for it?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

To be fair, being a high-profile endorser of the opposing party nominee in a state that was decided by just 0.31% undermines your claim to be a loyal Republican. It was justified, country first after all, but it's fair for Republicans to be annoyed if they have to support Trump themselves.

Are they passing a resolution against Jeff Flake, who also endorsed Biden?

Or is this just misogyny + deranged hate boner for a dead man?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Yes please keep attacking the McCains, I hope this carries out into the midterm. Maybe Kelly has a tiny chance

It's abundantly clear the AZ GOP is giving up on being a statewide governing party and following its VA and CA counterparts into the wilderness.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

This is also the process by which the AZ drives the nose of the ship beneath the water.

The bunker, minoritarian outlook induces them to operate like they are under siege, and thus alienate the very people necessary to get back to a majority. This is what happened in Virginia and it is what will happen in GA and AZ.

It goes back to my post here: https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=419859.msg7845941#msg7845941

Winning requires building an expansive coalition that by definition includes people that don't always vote for you. The American right has been conditioned to view these people as Democrats who should just vote for Democrats anyway, themselves as being a majority already and clearly if they other side won, "they must have stole it".

The American right is thus built as a masterpiece of self defeat.

This is the problem with any political group that requires purity tests (which the Republicans effectively do, the test is how loyal one is to Trump).  Those people who are more moderate and/or turned off by the extremism of the group leave it, resulting in a group that is both smaller and more extreme.  Rinse and repeat, and the eventual result is a smaller core of absolute crazies.

Yup. Compare it to the Democrats' strategy post-Trump, which was to build a tent so big that Joe Biden got endorsements ranging from Socialist Party USA members to the Ohio governor who tried to run against George W. Bush from the right in 2000.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

They're going to censure the last two living Republicans to win statewide office in Arizona (and the widow of the other deceased one)?