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Mon Sep 16, 2024, 11:14 AM Monday

Supporting Kamala Harris in this election doesn't make republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 Democrats

...Dick Cheney isn't a Democrat. He's a republican.

Liz Cheney is a republican who also opposes Trump and supports Kamala Harris.

In fact, very few republicans who have abandoned their party because of Trump have also abandoned all of their dangerous and divisive anti-American conservatism.

Desperate and dispirited MAGA calling them Democrats in an attempt to divide them from their long and extensive participation in and promotion of the right wing agenda doesn't automatically make them members or supporters of the Democratic party.

The Trump shooters donating to Act Blue or putting Biden-Harris bumper stickers on a vehicle should be regarded as the same kind of dishonesty that's behind their attempting to subvert the democratic process by violently attacking the candidate they opposed.

There's only one party in this election which has repeatedly used violence and threats to further their political aims.

It is the republican party which has almost universally adopted the Trumpian assaults on our Democratic process of elections, and has taken to theatening entire communities who they believe may oppose them; and entire groups of voters who may not support them in this election, with dangerous lies and other incitements.

There are no Democrats doing this.

The hatred, threats, and violence are coming from just one side in this election; the republicans - and they refuse to denounce any of it as the perpetuate all of the rhetoric and animus in everything they say and do.

These aren't Democratic party assaults on Donald Trump. Their attempts to game the process through violence isn't Democratic ideology.

The violence and threats are part and parcel of the republican party's extremism, fomented by their followers to the point that they've turned it all against themselves.

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