Mod: Tonight Fat Donny himself will be getting his rant on for the faithful. They sure have set quite the stage for him.'We are watching a dying political party': ex-GOP lawmaker trashes former colleagues appearing at CPAC (Raw Storylink): Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) ripped into former colleagues speaking at Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, noting that they -- and the attendees -- are there to pledge their allegiance to former President Donald Trump and not the Republican Party he once belonged to.
Speaking with host
Lindsey Reiser,
Walsh repeatedly said the
GOP is now "
Trump's party" before singling out
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) who reportedly spoke to a white nationalist gathering late Friday night.
"You mentioned, earlier in your show, a guy I served with in Congress, Paul Gosar,"Walsh stated. "He missed that Covid-relief bill vote last night because he keynoted a white-nationalist event. Gosar ought to be censured, he ought to be removed from his committees. The Republican Party should, unequivocally, condemn white supremacy, but they won't because this is Donald Trump's party.
Continuing in the vein and addressing a
USA Today opinion piece about the
GOP launching a new culture war,
Walsh claimed
Americans are watching the
Republican Party dying before their eyes.
"Lindsey, I think it's done,"Walsh pronounced. "I think the Republican Party is -- we are watching a dying political party. We're watching a political party die, before our very eyes. This Republican party is like one of those far-right, European parties. I think it's done as a national party. What used to be fringe in the Republican Party, this bigotry and this intolerance, the culture war, as you call it -- it's now the base of the party. It cannot be fixed. It cannot be reformed."
CPAC Stage Compared To Nazi Symbol On Social Media (
Forbeslink): Comparisons of law makers to fascists and
Nazis isn't uncommon these days, but on Saturday the hashtag
#Nazi was trending alongside mentions of the annual
Conservative Political Action Conference (
CPAC), where former
President Trump is set to speak on Sunday. This time it wasn't
Republican lawmakers who were compared to
Nazis however, but rather the similarity of the stage to an ancient
Norse symbol used by
Nazis was noted by thousands of users on
Twitter.
By Saturday afternoon there had been nearly
100,000 tweets that compared the
CPAC stage to the
ODAL Rune, which was used by a unit of the insidious
Waffen SS, the initially named the
SS-Volunteer Division Prinz Eugen (
SS-Freiwilligen-Division "Prinz Eugen") – later the
7th Volunteer Mountain Division. That unit was formed in
1941 and took part exclusively in action against the communist-led
Yugoslavian partisans during the
Second World War.
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