USA Politics

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by Valandil

If Ted Cruz had won the Republican nomination and the Presidential Election in 2016 - he would have been painted every bit as much of a racist as Donald Trump was.

I was just thinking of this yesterday as before your comment Ted Cruz hadn't come on my radar a lot and I had to look him up. Now this week alone I've seen three new seperate ways already in which I think he's an incompetent jerk and I wasn't even searching for it.

Which makes me wonder, who are the decent republican politicians? I mean, there have got to be some, right?

I know I tend to think badly of most politicians, foreign and domestic. And while I do not think they need to be perfect, there have been some examples lately where I even wonder whether they're capable of basic human decency. (This is not a dig at Trump alone, even though it certainly applies. I have just read an article on a local corruption case and it left me ranting at the wall. )

It's frightfully easy to demonise entire groups on the other side of the spectrum but well, in the case of the USA (as it plays out in front of an international audience) I really want to believe not all of them support insurrection, kids in cages, police violence and unbridled comporate greed.

So which are the ones that don't?

[Snowdog]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

Which makes me wonder, who are the decent republican politicians? I mean, there have got to be some, right?

I'd give credit to these 17 even if I think a lot of their politics stink:
Liz Cheney of Wyoming
John Katko of New York
Adam Kinzinger of Illinoi
Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
Tom Rice of South Carolina
David Valadao of California
Fred Upton and Peter Meijer of Michigan
Jamie Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse, both from Washington Stste.
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Susan Collins of Maine
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Mitt Romney of Utah
Ben Sasse of Nebraska
Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

The rest of the party, and especially those of CPAC, are bankrupt trumpshirts.

And it appears the Republicans are arguing that the only way they can "win" is via voter suppression.