Can the GOP be considered a Trump cult if it votes to acquit Trump?
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« on: February 13, 2021, 02:17:40 PM »

Honest question here. If the party votes to acquit someone who basically told a mob to invade the Capitol to stop the Electoral College count, does that party even stand for anything anymore? Do they still stand for the Constitution, that they claim to love so much? I mean during the Trump presidency, we saw that the only thing that they passed were tax cuts and judges. We had numerous articles about Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans being unhappy with Trump's actions. Yet, here we are, is the party a cult at this point? Is unflinching loyalty to Trump, now the sole requirement of being a Republican? Does anyone still trust that the Republican Party respects democracy?


It's a sad day, when this is actually a serious thread, and not some trollish, "haha gotcha" thread, but we live in sad times, sadly. My vote goes to Yes, for the reasons I outlined above, and as a former Republican, I am deeply saddened to see the party go this route.
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2021, 01:16:44 PM »

Voting to acquit is bad enough itself, but what makes it worse is when they attack any Republican who did vote to impeach (Cheney; Cassidy; etc.) as Republicans In Name Only. No - they are showing that they are Americans more than members of a Trump cult who will do anything to defend their leader. They kicked Cheney, a principled, steadfast conservative, off as Chair of the House Republican Conference because she criticized a former president for inciting insurrection. The GOP should just rename themselves the Cult of Trump, and the only requirement to join the CoT is blindly supporting Trump and insisting irrationally that the election was stolen.
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2021, 10:44:17 PM »
« Edited: July 28, 2021, 10:51:36 PM by wants to resurrect the bull moose party »

The GOP already is a cult to Trump lol. They had marched lockstep with Trump regardless if it was immoral or unpopular out of fear of being primaried by a die-hard cultist or being downright oblivious because they got """tax cuts""" and and placed conservative justices on the Supreme Court. This cult of personality around Trump is absolutely disgusting and disturbing given that we live in a country with a functioning democracy where we can freely disagree with our leaders and their policies in contrast to other regimes like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, Assad's Syria, etc.
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2021, 12:07:28 AM »

Harry Reid himself stated that a trial would be useless, unnecessary, and quite possibly unconstitutional after an impeached judge resigned in 2009 before a senate trial could take place.

By your logic, the Dems are an anti Trump cult. The gop had more diversity on this front than the Democrats.
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2021, 12:14:13 AM »

Also since when was blindly supporting Trump in believing that the election was stolen a requirement? Literally less than 10 senators voted to object to the results.

Is Maxine Waters a Gore cultist? Is Barbara Boxer a Kerry cultist? Is Tom Rice a Trump cultist despite literally voting to impeach him?
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2021, 01:23:25 PM »

Or an HRC cultist
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2021, 01:27:24 PM »

Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham even though they are Trump loyalists themselves have distanced from his efforts to overturn the election
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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2021, 07:50:52 PM »

No, lol.
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« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2021, 01:49:20 PM »

Also since when was blindly supporting Trump in believing that the election was stolen a requirement? Literally less than 10 senators voted to object to the results.

Is Maxine Waters a Gore cultist? Is Barbara Boxer a Kerry cultist? Is Tom Rice a Trump cultist despite literally voting to impeach him?

To your point on senators - yes, that's true, but 139 House Republicans did so.
To your second points, no, no and no. Rice is moronic for trying to object to election results (I get why Waters objected to Bush's FL 'win,' but honestly, I have to say even Boxer voting to object to OH's results was unnecessary and unfounded) - but the real cultists are the ones who continue defending Trump even after January 6. Not every Republican who voted not to impeach Trump is necessarily a cultist, but a lot of them are, since they turned a blind eye to insurrection. Maybe 'cultist' is an exaggeration, but honestly, some Republicans like MTG behave like they are in a Trump cult (which they arguably are in).
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« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2021, 01:54:14 PM »

Anyone who voted to convict Trump is a cultist. Without the Chief Justice as the presider it was all a sham.
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« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2021, 03:39:34 PM »

Politicians will do what is in their political self-interest.
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