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Alan Warms retweeted
People who moved here from blue states still remember what it's like to live in a blue state, and so voted for Florida Republicans overwhelmingly.
People who have been here for 20 years haven't had to deal with Democratic governance so end up with comparatively minor grievances.
Alan Warms retweeted
He ran on lowering the cost of living. Upwards of 60% of voters said tariffs raised their cost of living.
He ran on the claim tariffs would help. Voters believed him. Then the opposite happened. Voters punished him.
Alan Warms retweeted
So yeah, El-Sayed should probably not be granted a security clearance.
Whoa. That’s because of our @FreeBeacon report. Lebanese consul Ibrahim Charara, who was at an event with Abdul El-Sayed last week, is being kicked out of US for calling the Marine barracks attack “heroic resistance.” freebeacon.com/democrats/leb…
Alan Warms retweeted
The people who are devoted to wildly unpopular tariffs that voters overwhelmingly said hurt them, will spend the next few months insisting the real problem was everything else
No, it really was The War.
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Alan Warms retweeted
It may be too late for that, the moment was a couple of years ago when Tucker embraced Nazi revisionism and devoted his entire life to destroying the Jewish people, and our vice president and potential nominee embraced him and defended him. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Prepare yourselves.
The most important casualty in the Republican Party must be the Groyper class. Vance, Don Jr, their oracle Tucker, and all of them must be swept out to sea. If we don’t handle this immediately, we’ll be left with the mirror equivalent of the DSA. It will be a party where we knowingly elevate a cancer to destroy us from the inside. For our party to be credible, we must get rid of them.
Alan Warms retweeted
Breaking: I've uncovered an apparently unreported 2012 Al Jazeera article coauthored by Abdul El-Sayed that praises the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral success in Egypt and portrays the Islamist movement in remarkably flattering terms.
At the time, the Brotherhood-led bloc had just won approximately 47% of Egypt's parliamentary seats, while the ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nour bloc secured another 24%.
Together, Islamist parties controlled roughly 71% of the elected seats.
Yet El-Sayed and his coauthor (a Harvard scholar, because of course) enthusiastically described Egypt's political transformation as looking "more promising than ever."
They also argued that the Islamist parties' electoral successes reflected their domestic platforms and "histories of social justice" more than popular support for their Islamic ideologies.
El-Sayed wasn't merely celebrating the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. He was expressing optimism about Egypt's political future AFTER the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists had overwhelmingly won the parliamentary elections.
Alan Warms retweeted
Why would they care about pushing back on antisemitism when it’s winning them elections? Lib Jews made an idiotic 100-year decision to align with these people and are now reaping the results.
Alan Warms retweeted
The amount of counterprotestors in Philadelphia is incredible.
Notice which side holds the American flag and which holds foreign flags.
Alan Warms retweeted
BREAKING: The Philly Bike Boycott has reportedly ended early because of the overwhelming number of counterprotestors who showed up.
Notice which side is fully masked to hide their identities.
Alan Warms retweeted
BREAKING: Protestors are directly confronting violent Islamist rioters in Philadelphia.
The people have had enough.
Alan Warms retweeted
The most comprehensive poll of foreign policy views of MAGA voters under 30 was done by the Reagan Institute this summer.
Among other findings 73 supported military action in Iran, and 61 percent wanted to see the Iranian regime either removed or weakened, while just 35 percent said they prefer a “negotiated settlement” in which “Iran’s current government remains in exchange for verifiable limits on its nuclear and missile programs.”
Overall, MAGA Republicans are more hawkish and less isolationist than any other segment of the American electorate. And young MAGA voters don’t want America to pull back from the world; they want to lead it.
Though younger MAGA voters are less supportive than older ones, solid majorities still back the Jewish state: 60 percent of MAGA voters under 30 approve of sending U.S. weapons to Israel, compared with 72 percent of older MAGA voters — far above the paltry 37 percent of Democrats who do. And 63 percent say that the security of Israel “matters to U.S. security and prosperity.” They are not demanding we “change our relationship with Israel” as the VP claims.
Sorry, but the whole narrative of “Zombie Reaganism” driven by older Republicans with gauzy memories of a bygone era of 1980s GOP world leadership is a myth.
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I like both men. I'm adult enough to handle that Vance was publicly addressing the undeniable reality of the GOP wipeout, caused by deep national frustration with a war and its resulting spikes on gas prices and other costs, while Rubio was talking to a tiny group of people at a fancy gathering who desperately need to be comforted following that shellacking.
It's unfair to compare the two sets of remarks. If they switched their audiences and roles, they might say something similar as the other one did. That's just politics.
HOWEVER, the less people care about whether either one of these guys will win the (likely way beyond Pyrrhic) nomination that they may or may not seek of a party in crisis thanks to the failures of its leadership across all branches of government, the better the party can fix the problems that brought it to this point and the better the party can work to repair the harm done. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter who gets the nomination!
Now I know that it's absolutely true that many older GOP voters fully support the war and fully support Trump's decision to do what he did. And most diehard GOP voters in other age groups would continue voting GOP even if they were less enthusiastic about the war. We see a lot of representation of the first group in particular in the media.
I know it's unpopular to say so, but these groups comprise a dramatically shrinking minority of voters that is unable to deliver election wins. Fully 65% of the country opposes the war. It's not a winning issue. Prosecuting it resulted in serious electoral costs -- largely due to the increased gas prices but also because of the sense that the Trump administration was not focused enough on domestic crises requiring major work. You may wish it were otherwise. I'm sure you do. But the reality is that this war has never been popular and has gotten less so. Thoughtful people should care far more about the very real concerns of the recent GOP voters who left or gave up and not just the ones who don't leave.
So you can pick the person who most aligns with your particular views on the war all you want! Donors and special interests can get behind whichever person they want and maybe they even have the power to get him the nomination! They frequently do! But it's a very, very, very, VERY long road between picking that nominee and returning the Republican Party to any semblance of power.
I'd care less about the fight over who gets nominated and much more about building a winning coalition going forward.
Also, as someone who genuinely likes Rubio, I think his vocal supporters may be hurting him by positioning him as a huge fan of the war. For whatever it's worth.
Alan Warms retweeted
Pro-Palestine activists tried to cancel Jewish-owned restaurants in Philadelphia today with a boycott ride.
Instead? Massive lines wrapped around the block to support them.
You try to intimidate our local businesses, the community shows up in force.
You love to see it! 🇺🇸
Alan Warms retweeted
Here’s the scandal: Why didn’t @JDVance say any of this?
.@SecRubio: “It would have been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is just ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy."
“But this president didn't do that. He confronted it because what Iran wants to do is not just destroy our country; it's destroy our way of life and threaten our children,” he added.
Alan Warms retweeted
Senator Fetterman took only 10 seconds to say the quiet part out loud about Abdul El-Sayed: he is “running to be the head of our emerging pro-Hamas wing here in the party.”
And he says, “This guy is really the Pontiac Platner,” comparing him to the Maine Democrat forced out of the Maine race over a Nazi tattoo.
This is the new radical wing of the Democratic Party. Thanks for calling it out @SenFettermanPA
Alan Warms retweeted
.@charlescwcooke is an essential voice
.@charlescwcooke: I have no time whatsoever for people who move here and are unpatriotic. We do not have to let you in.
Alan Warms retweeted
Put all the ideological fighting aside. Rubio is mission-focused. Make a decision, and then endeavor to *see it through* to the outcome you want. When you think this way you have a much different compass.
.@SecRubio: “It would have been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is just ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy."
“But this president didn't do that. He confronted it because what Iran wants to do is not just destroy our country; it's destroy our way of life and threaten our children,” he added.