A Right Wing Cannot Flap Alone, or, Donald Trump Screwed the Putsch

[A Black Falcon]

Nanci Pelosi needs to go.  She is PROMOTING the one anti-choice democrat in the senate over others in the primary that are against it.  Thus, she is effectively anti-choice.  Actions speak louder than words.

She's also talking up how we "need a strong republican party".  We don't need ANY specific parties.  The republican party SHOULD in fact weaken and die out.  It SHOULD be weak.  They earned having their power stripped away.  New parties will emerge to take their place.  Stop fighting for the status quo.  The status quo is killing us, literally.

For anti-choice Democrats, technically there are two, Casey and Manchin.  Casey isn't as much of an obstacle as Manchin is, but he does claim to be personally pro-life.  Democratic leadership supports both of them because parties almost always support their current office-holders.  Neither one is up for re-election this year, so I'm not sure what you're that upset about?  I agree that we should not nominate anti-abortion people, I'm sure Pennsylvania could have found someone who could win and is more pro-choice than Casey, but West Virginia? Manchin isn't up for re-election until 2024 and he's the only Democrat that even MAYBE could win West Virginia, so while he is extremely wrong on this he's still better than any Republican would be -- at least Manchin votes for our judicial nominees and such, that's huge!

On the second point, democracy requires at least two functioning, nationally competitive parties to work.  A one-party state is not a democracy and does not work, it is an autocracy which I certainly believe is an objectively worse form of government.

So while we do not need a Republican Party, we do need two functioning parties that believe in small-d democracy in order to continue to have a free country.

But as we all know, while America had that for its first 200 years-plus, we are losing that now.  Many Republicans today have become authoritarian, opposing democracy.  This is obviously a VERY VERY BAD thing for the future of our nation, if we want it to survive without becoming a right wing dictatorship.

So, do we need a Republican Party?  No, of course not.  If it died out and was replaced with another party not so cravenly subservient to authoritarians that'd be great.  But so many Republican voters have fallen for Trumpist extremism that that isn't very likely right now.  It's a really bad situation, she's right about that.  She is looking well into the past now with that statement, but given how badly wrong things are going with the Republican Party's fall to fascistic authoritarinism I get it...