Fox News analyst: The GOP is an anti-American party

Like the author, I have never voted a straight Democratic ticket.

I would consider it now, but it the Republican vote-suppressors in Texas removed that option.

Keep sloganeering, fellas. Your cake is all icing.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign...america-party/


Juan Williams: The GOP is an anti-America party

I am a Democrat. Yet I have voted for Republicans. In fact, one of my sons ran for office as a Republican. My other son worked for Republicans in Congress and the Republican National Committee.

But I can’t stomach what has happened to the GOP in the last year. And I can’t understand why every American isn’t screaming about it.

How can anyone dismiss a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol as just “one day in January,” to quote former Vice President Mike Pence?

{mosads}Doesn’t it infuriate you to see so many Republicans make lying about the winner of the 2020 election a test of party loyalty?

This brings a story to mind.

Four years ago, I mentioned to the late Colin Powell, the former secretary of State, that a well-known conservative media figure had cursed at the mention of his name. The power player said Republicans made Powell rich and famous, and that he showed no loyalty by endorsing President Obama in the 2008 campaign.

Powell leaned into me and said it was “jerks like that” who caused the party to leave him.

Today, another strong conservative member of the GOP, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas), offers a similar assessment. Crenshaw, speaking at a public event this month, described unnamed far-right GOP members of Congress as “grifters” and “performance artists.”

Crenshaw said the party’s commitment to public service has been replaced by media darlings who “know how to say slogans real well. They know how to recite the lines that they know our voters want to hear.”

If Crenshaw is right, the Republican Party’s problems are bigger than former President Trump. The problem is with voters willing to back Trump.

Those are people who value slogans more than the ability to govern the country.

That means ambitious GOP politicians are right to imitate Trump’s tactics of inciting outrage and demeaning anyone, including Republicans, who stand outside the cult.

It also means that Republicans are indifferent to the corruption in the Trump White House that has been detailed in numerous books.

Those books agree Trump tried to overturn the presidential election.

Those books say he bullied his own vice president and tried to intimidate Justice Department officials.

This is contemptible. Yet today’s Republican voters still tell pollsters they will support Trump for the party’s 2024 nomination.

The self-destruction of the party is evident in the GOP’s voting record in Congress.

In the last year, every congressional Republican voted against a bill to help the country recover from the economic damage caused by COVID-19.

Republicans also overwhelmingly opposed an infrastructure bill favored by most Americans.

Now the GOP is opposed to President Biden’s Build Back Better bill to lower taxes for the middle class and help with child care.

Last month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) apparently shrugged off a question about a Republican agenda to help the country move forward.

A donor at a private dinner asked McConnell about what kind of platform the GOP might actually propose, according to Axios.

McConnell, Axios reported, replied by essentially dismissing the idea that the GOP should even consider doing such a thing, when it could instead make hay just by hitting Democrats.

Republicans in the Senate, led by Utah’s Mike Lee, recently threatened a government shutdown to oppose the Biden administration’s mandate that larger businesses must require their employees to either get vaccinated or have weekly COVID-19 tests.

Opposing a mandate for vaccination is legitimate. Allowing a deadly vaccine hesitancy to grow among Republicans to score political points is worthy of scorn.

That indifference to public good leads to the conclusion that the GOP wants to collapse faith in government to gain support for a coup attempt in 2024.

{mossecondads}The Atlantic recently featured the headline “January 6 was Practice.”

Barton Gellman writes this chilling synopsis:

“For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. … They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with … the Big Lie.”

Last week, a group of academic and Democratic political strategists surveyed by The New York Times’s Thomas B. Edsall almost unanimously agreed that “the Republican Party under the leadership of Trump is a threat to democracy.”

That finding is consistent with a November letter to Congress by more than 150 scholars sounding the alarm for the future of government by and for the people.

They wrote that “this is no ordinary moment” for American democracy, but a “moment of great peril and risk,” produced by the January insurrection and efforts by Republicans nationwide to seize control of vote-counting for future elections.

Biden recently hosted the first ever White House “Summit for Democracy.”

He warned of threats to global democracy that include “voices that seek to fan the flames of societal division and political polarization.”

He had every right to include Republicans in the United States.

The time has come for every American, including the president, to stand up and act before it is too late.

Juan Williams is an author, and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

Verifying someone is a legitimate voter only suppresses illegal voting, which is why democrats hate it.

Like the author, I have never voted a straight Democratic ticket.

I would consider it now, but it the Republican vote-suppressors in Texas removed that option.

Keep sloganeering, fellas. Your cake is all icing.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign...america-party/


Juan Williams: The GOP is an anti-America party

I am a Democrat. Yet I have voted for Republicans. In fact, one of my sons ran for office as a Republican. My other son worked for Republicans in Congress and the Republican National Committee.

But I can’t stomach what has happened to the GOP in the last year. And I can’t understand why every American isn’t screaming about it.

How can anyone dismiss a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol as just “one day in January,” to quote former Vice President Mike Pence?

{mosads}Doesn’t it infuriate you to see so many Republicans make lying about the winner of the 2020 election a test of party loyalty?

This brings a story to mind.

Four years ago, I mentioned to the late Colin Powell, the former secretary of State, that a well-known conservative media figure had cursed at the mention of his name. The power player said Republicans made Powell rich and famous, and that he showed no loyalty by endorsing President Obama in the 2008 campaign.

Powell leaned into me and said it was “jerks like that” who caused the party to leave him.

Today, another strong conservative member of the GOP, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas), offers a similar assessment. Crenshaw, speaking at a public event this month, described unnamed far-right GOP members of Congress as “grifters” and “performance artists.”

Crenshaw said the party’s commitment to public service has been replaced by media darlings who “know how to say slogans real well. They know how to recite the lines that they know our voters want to hear.”

If Crenshaw is right, the Republican Party’s problems are bigger than former President Trump. The problem is with voters willing to back Trump.

Those are people who value slogans more than the ability to govern the country.

That means ambitious GOP politicians are right to imitate Trump’s tactics of inciting outrage and demeaning anyone, including Republicans, who stand outside the cult.

It also means that Republicans are indifferent to the corruption in the Trump White House that has been detailed in numerous books.

Those books agree Trump tried to overturn the presidential election.

Those books say he bullied his own vice president and tried to intimidate Justice Department officials.

This is contemptible. Yet today’s Republican voters still tell pollsters they will support Trump for the party’s 2024 nomination.

The self-destruction of the party is evident in the GOP’s voting record in Congress.

In the last year, every congressional Republican voted against a bill to help the country recover from the economic damage caused by COVID-19.

Republicans also overwhelmingly opposed an infrastructure bill favored by most Americans.

Now the GOP is opposed to President Biden’s Build Back Better bill to lower taxes for the middle class and help with child care.

Last month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) apparently shrugged off a question about a Republican agenda to help the country move forward.

A donor at a private dinner asked McConnell about what kind of platform the GOP might actually propose, according to Axios.

McConnell, Axios reported, replied by essentially dismissing the idea that the GOP should even consider doing such a thing, when it could instead make hay just by hitting Democrats.

Republicans in the Senate, led by Utah’s Mike Lee, recently threatened a government shutdown to oppose the Biden administration’s mandate that larger businesses must require their employees to either get vaccinated or have weekly COVID-19 tests.

Opposing a mandate for vaccination is legitimate. Allowing a deadly vaccine hesitancy to grow among Republicans to score political points is worthy of scorn.

That indifference to public good leads to the conclusion that the GOP wants to collapse faith in government to gain support for a coup attempt in 2024.

{mossecondads}The Atlantic recently featured the headline “January 6 was Practice.”

Barton Gellman writes this chilling synopsis:

“For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. … They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with … the Big Lie.”

Last week, a group of academic and Democratic political strategists surveyed by The New York Times’s Thomas B. Edsall almost unanimously agreed that “the Republican Party under the leadership of Trump is a threat to democracy.”

That finding is consistent with a November letter to Congress by more than 150 scholars sounding the alarm for the future of government by and for the people.

They wrote that “this is no ordinary moment” for American democracy, but a “moment of great peril and risk,” produced by the January insurrection and efforts by Republicans nationwide to seize control of vote-counting for future elections.

Biden recently hosted the first ever White House “Summit for Democracy.”

He warned of threats to global democracy that include “voices that seek to fan the flames of societal division and political polarization.”

He had every right to include Republicans in the United States.

The time has come for every American, including the president, to stand up and act before it is too late.

Juan Williams is an author, and a political analyst for Fox News Channel. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Hahaha, Juan Williams is Anti-American. He doesn't believe the premises of the foundation of this country at all.

numbskulls abound

numbskulls abound Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

My point exactly.

They tend to support the anti-American Trump cult.

My point exactly.

. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

you need a mirror

try and get one out of wtf's grasp, if that is even possible for he gets locked in a stare with his

and look in it

Who cares what the affirmative action hire thinks? They are there for color only.

My point exactly.

We tend to support the anti-American MASSIVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Democratic agenda. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

ftfy

Who cares what the affirmative action hire thinks? They are there for color only. Originally Posted by texassapper

Nice. Not surprised you’d post something like that, bud.

But your prejudice and racial insecurity is yours.

Suppose that’s just your cross to burn, errr, bear.

I’ll see if I can find a white person willing to call your ilk anti-American.

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHhahah, yee haw!

Fox has their token Liberals.
The View has their token Conservative, when they can get one to stay.
Fox treats their tokens better.
That should tell you something.

In the last year, every congressional Republican voted against a bill to help the country recover from the economic damage caused by COVID-19.

Republicans also overwhelmingly opposed an infrastructure bill favored by most Americans.

Now the GOP is opposed to President Biden’s Build Back Better bill to lower taxes for the middle class and help with child care. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Only a fool like YR would cut and paste a 4-month-old column and be totally oblivious to how it hasn't aged well.

The stupidly wasteful and profligate $1.9 billion "America Rescue Plan Act" that every Congressional Republican voted against should have been called the "Goose Inflation Now" bill.

The so-called Infrastructure Bill that Republicans overwhelmingly opposed should have been titled the "Everything But Infrastructure" bill.

And the Build Back Better bill that was mercifully killed by Manchin and Sinema should have been touted as the "Bankrupt Benefits and Bureaucracy" Act. Or, if you prefer, the "Burn Baby Burn" bill since it would have sent the US economy up in flames.

Nice. Not surprised you’d post something like that, bud.

But your prejudice and racial insecurity is yours.

Suppose that’s just your cross to burn, errr, bear.

I’ll see if I can find a white person willing to call your ilk anti-American.

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHhahah, yee haw! Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

LOL...you assumed he's there because of his race... I was referring to his politics. LOL... RAYCISST

Juan Williams is the Fox News “But Man”

Regardless of which show he is on, he will state what are obviously conservative views, say things that are in semi agreement, and then……..
“But”. Where he will then puke out what ever Democrat talking point he was ordered to relay that day.

As the saying goes, when you are involved in any conversation or discussion, anything you said before “but” is meaningless.

LOL...you assumed he's there because of his race... I was referring to his politics. LOL... RAYCISST Originally Posted by texassapper

Oh, then why did you write “affirmative action?” And what color?

Never mind, I don’t give a fuck. We all know what you’re made of, bub.

Yes haw!

Oh, then why did you write “affirmative action?” And what color?

Never mind, I don’t give a fuck. We all know what you’re made of, bub. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

affirmative action is hiring on the basis of other than merit... ie. he was hired because he's a liberal.... and you've heard of color commentary before right? lol

Stupid RACISS!