{"id":76422,"date":"2021-01-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76422"},"modified":"2021-01-11T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:19:03","slug":"rubble-bounced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76422","title":{"rendered":"Rubble Bounced"},"content":{"rendered":"

My old friend and radio colleague Ed Morrisey is one of more than a few Republicans who, disgusted by (obviously) the riots, but\u00a0 moreso by the usurpation of the state control of elections and Electors that happened in Congress last week (the real “coup attempt”, and one of the\u00a0 most self-destructive power grabs in my memory), is leaving the GOP.<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing at your leisure<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s the conclusion<\/p>\n

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The caveat of \u201cI don\u2019t support violence in any way\u201d is meaningless \u2014 a dodge around the betrayal of the principles on which this party stood at one time. This is nothing more than an endorsement of brute-force majoritarianism at\u00a0best<\/em>, and at worst an explicit endorsement of mob rule. In fact, it seems like a celebration of mob rule, one cheered on by Donald Trump\u2019s closest formal adviser in the White House.<\/p>\n

Before this, questions had already arisen as to how republicanism could coexist with populism. This goes\u00a0waaay<\/em>\u00a0beyond that question. The disgrace in Congress, even apart from the mobs, severed the connection between Republicans and republicanism in any meaningful American sense. They aren\u2019t republicans now, but instead a radical form of small-D democrats whose only aim is gin up outrage in sufficient quantities to \u201cown the libs.\u201d That\u2019s not just on Donald Trump; it\u2019s now on the entire party and its leadership.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s their choice; my choice is very clear. I don\u2019t choose to participate in such a nihilistic political party. I\u2019ll stand on my own as an independent, ready to vote for responsible conservatives but under no obligation to vote for or support anyone else. Until the GOP comes to its senses and returns to true republican and federal principles, I will not be back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Speaking for myself?\u00a0 I’m not going to pretend that my party affiliation matters for much of anything to anyone.\u00a0 I stopped donating money to non-conservative candidates years ago, after the party’s establishment slandered the Tea Party away from its place at the table.\u00a0 I stopped being an activist two years ago – not “over Trump”\u00a0per se<\/em> (again, I’m not of the opinion that my choices of affiliations, or activism, matter in the great scheme of things all that much).<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth?\u00a0 \u00a0I intend to fight to re-save the soul of the GOP.\u00a0 \u00a0There is a legacy worth saving, and passing on to people who haven’t seen much evidence of it in the past decade.<\/p>\n

But it ain’t gonna be easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My old friend and radio colleague Ed Morrisey is one of more than a few Republicans who, disgusted by (obviously) the riots, but\u00a0 moreso by the usurpation of the state control of elections and Electors that happened in Congress last week (the real “coup attempt”, and one of the\u00a0 most self-destructive power grabs in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,425,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-campaign-24","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76424,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76422\/revisions\/76424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}