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(DIR) Post #AWNyE8v1TgHxxSVgJM by sethcotlar@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T15:19:35Z
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This weekend a faction of the Oregon GOP tried to recall long-serving National Committeeman Solomon Yue. They narrowly failed, but the resulting kerfuffle tells us a lot about the current state of the party's political culture.https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/the-anti-communist-circular-firing
(DIR) Post #AWNyE9gWd4HoKmjcLw by sethcotlar@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T15:25:44Z
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When the OR GOP is not fighting amongst itself, shadowboxing against imaginary Communists in their midst, they are doing everything they can to grind the process of governance in the state to a halt. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/oregon-legislature-republican-walkout.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AWNyEAN44uJWSidaeu by sethcotlar@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T15:28:06Z
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One of the most important stories of our time is that our political institutions are failing. They are not rising to meet the social, economic, and environmental challenges we face. That failure has many causes, but the radical dysfunction of the GOP has played an outsized role.
(DIR) Post #AWNyEB17fyMASxNa64 by sethcotlar@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T15:32:51Z
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When the most energized activists in your party are devoting a significant portion of their time and attention to the question of which people in the OR GOP are *really* doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party, you've really lost the plot.
(DIR) Post #AWNyECeVb1SJXOoY7s by sethcotlar@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T15:38:32Z
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That said, it's hard to imagine what "the plot" would be that would result in the GOP winning statewide elections any time soon. And this just incentivizes folks in the party to double down on the politically self-destructive but emotionally-satisfying apocaplyptic rhetoric.