Amid Democratic Woes, Republicans Expose Their Own Troubles
“We have grifters in our midst .. lie after lie after lie,” Rep Crenshaw says of some other Republicans
Despite continuing warning signs for Democrats a year away from the coming midterm elections, things are not all strength and resolve among Republicans, either.
Indeed, the Republican Party sometimes has seemed to be riven anew amid deep rancor and vicious infighting within the right-wing party.
Take just a few recent examples.
Former president Donald Trump's back in the news, railing at his one-time White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, for exposing what had been a White House cover-up a year or so ago to hide just how ill Trump had become after catching COVID-19.
Although Trump’s no longer president, and has been effectively banned from social media, much of Republican rank-and-file still offer him support in the form of extreme adoration.
So it both remains to be seen — and could be instructive — how this public split with Meadows affects the mood and motivation behind the Republican base.
Even moreso should be the Trump-backed primary challenge to incumbent Republican Gov Brian Kemp, of Georgia. The former president is supporting former Republican senator David Purdue's candidacy to take the Republican nomination for governor away from Kemp, who Trump falsely blames for failing to somehow swing the Peach State into Trump’s column in last year's presidential election despite the fact that Democrat Joe Biden was the narrow — but clear and certified — winner of the state’s 16 electoral votes.
The question will be: Will Purdue's insurgent bid fracture Georgia Republicans and allow presumptive Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams to capture the governorship?
Or will Georgia's Republican voters become motivated and turn out more strongly against an Abrams campaign?
And, then, there are the internecine political brawls breaking out among Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Specifically, right-wing Republican congressman, Dan Crenshaw, of Texas, recently lashed out at several of his most well-known fellow GOP colleagues while praising Rep Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.
Kinzinger is widely reviled within right-wing circles due to his refusal to back Trump’s “Big Lie,” that the 2020 was stolen from him, as well as for Kinzinger's willingness to serve as one of just two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the events of the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol Building.
Crenshaw trashed “Freedom Caucus” members Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, Mo Brooks, of Alabama, Louis Gohmert, of Texas, Paul Gosar, of Arizona, Jim Jordan, of Ohio, and others, as “performance artists” while defending Kinzinger.
“We have grifters in our midst .. lie after lie after lie,” Crenshaw said.
Wendy Rogers, an extreme right-wing Republican state legislator in Arizona, immediately called for Crenshaw to be punished.
“#RedFlagDan at it again. He must GO along with Mace and Ronna Romney!!! Bye!” Rogers tweeted, referring to Rep Nancy Mace of South Carolina — who is also been considered persona non grata among the Republican right — Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
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