# The Republican Party is the Party of Evil **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187 "2021-03-04T17:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 152
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3022 "2024-10-06T13:32:26Z")
The “Party of Law and Order - as long as it’s them _other_ people getting lawed and ordered”. It’s “an abuse of power” and “politicizing the legal system” and “political persecution” when the legal system enforces the law against _them_. All those Black Lives Matter protests that had violent offshoots - they should all be imprisoned for life. January 6 invaders of the Capitol Building - they were just expressing their rights as citizens. Because something something something. The Republicans decry politicizing the political offices and using the justice system to go after political rivals. Except here in Texas our illustrious Attorney General, Ken Paxton, was caught doing just that and more, going after personal enemies and covering up his own misdeeds. And after over a decade, the Republican Texas House finally impeached him. Then the Republican Texas Senate acquitted him on purely political grounds, ignoring all the evidence. Now Paxton is leading an effort to unseat the Speaker of the House who oversaw the impeachment. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3023 "2024-10-06T14:06:16Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > The “Party of Law and Order - as long as it’s them _other_ people getting lawed and ordered”. > > It’s “an abuse of power” and “politicizing the legal system” and “political persecution” when the legal system enforces the law against _them_. > > All those Black Lives Matter protests that had violent offshoots - they should all be imprisoned for life. January 6 invaders of the Capitol Building - they were just expressing their rights as citizens. > > Because something something something. As the line goes: > Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. The idea that the law is _supposed_ to be grossly unfair in their favor has been a core belief of the Right for longer than this nation has existed, back to when when the term originated and it meant support for the French aristocracy. The exact identity of the “in” and out" groups may change according to time and place and they’ve become less willing to openly admit it, but the desire for an unfair society is still central to their worldview. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3024 "2024-10-06T15:29:06Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > The idea that the law is _supposed_ to be grossly unfair in their favor has been a core belief of the Right for longer than this nation has existed, back to when when the term originated and it meant support for the French aristocracy. The exact identity of the “in” and out" groups may change according to time and place and they’ve become less willing to openly admit it Philosophically based in that there is to be either a “natural” or “God-given” (depending on the alignment of the specific Right faction member) order of what’s your place in the world and all are to mind their place in that order and it’s just too bad if you’re not happy with that place. Notice that applies to a whole range of “order” including order of gender identities and roles, ethnocultural groupings, socioeconomic cohorts, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3025 "2024-10-07T19:20:39Z")
Just playing games with the help that so many of his constituents are seeking. What a great leader! > **[Ron DeSantis is refusing to take Harris' call on Hurricane Helene](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/kamala-harris/ron-desantis-harris-call-hurricane-helene-political-rcna174276)** > > An aide to the Florida governor said that Harris' call "seemed political" and that she "was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer." ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3026 "2024-10-07T22:36:28Z")
He’s also threatening to prosecute media for airing pro-choice ads. I don’t think he’s going to get far with that. Right? Please tell me I’m right. > **[Ron DeSantis’ Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/florida-amendment-4-ron-desantis-administration-prosecute-media-airing-pro-choice-ads.html)** > > There is a perverse irony here. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3027 "2024-10-07T22:52:13Z")
Get away with it in terms of actually prosecuting them? No. Get away with it in terms of convincing some networks to play it safe by dropping the ads? Unfortunately, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3028 "2024-10-19T21:13:11Z")
Overlap of evil and stupid here. Two of the hardest phrases to fight are “So what?” And “I don’t care.” > **[Conservative Influencer Says Slavery Should Be Reinstated 'If Everyone In the...](https://www.latintimes.com/slavery-reinstated-debate-conservative-influencer-debate-emily-wilson-562767)** > > A conservative Los Angeles-based influencer stated that legislative issues should be left up to individual states to be decided: including whether or not slavery is enacted. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3029 "2024-10-19T23:46:34Z")
She might care a bit if blondes were up on the auction block. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3030 "2024-10-19T23:53:17Z")
If? Not if conservative incels have anything to say about it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3031 "2024-10-20T02:34:37Z")
Interesting. I suppose if _everybody_ in Alabama wanted slavery, the big question would be who would be the slaves? If the premise is to reinstitute Black slavery, I think a bunch of Alabamans would be hard to convince to be for it. Maybe they should reinstitute slavery, only this time is the whites’ turn in chains. What, if everybody wants slavery, it’s only fair to let the other side have a turn. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3032 "2024-10-20T02:41:04Z")
You seem to be confused about who counts as “everyone”. They never really mean everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3033 "2024-10-20T02:43:11Z")
Yeah, that’s kinda my point. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3034 "2024-10-20T15:26:27Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > If the premise is to reinstitute Black slavery, I think a bunch of Alabamans would be hard to convince to be for it. “We want slavery. Who is TBD.” ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3035 "2024-10-22T21:16:08Z")
“In 2019, Radcliff [posted a photograph on Instagram of himself at CPAC posing next to Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle.” [Radcliff was arraigned on Sunday on two counts of aggravated “child sexually abusive activity,” two counts of child sexually abusive activity, and six counts of using the internet to communicate with another to commit a crime. He could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.](https://www.newsweek.com/maga-church-leader-charged-sexually-abusing-children-1972988) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3036 "2024-11-03T14:02:29Z")
These two are seriously creepy and they admire Vance and his patron. MAGA folks subscribe to sone weird ideas, it’s true, but these two people are a step beyond. Pronatalists? WTF? > **[Mass production of genetically selected humans: inside a Pennsylvania...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/03/simone-collins-pronatalist-pennsylvania-candidate)** > > Simone Collins espouses a philosophy in which voting rights would be linked to people’s contributions to society ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3037 "2024-11-03T16:04:12Z")
MAGA doesn’t even have ‘surface-level intelligence’ anymore. From a certain perspective the Earth can appear to be flat. They’re saying the Earth is marshmallow. (Too be fair, it’s probably not a NEW thing, just more prominent). ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3038 "2024-11-03T23:58:03Z")
From the article > Malcolm said he and his wife are working to create a network of other pronatalist families, with whom their children can go to summer camp, grow up alongside “knowing this isn’t weird, what we’re doing” and, ultimately, marry. But this goes beyond the average desire to find family friends with shared values and be part of a community. “What I’m really trying to do is ensure that my kids have an isolated and differential breeding network,” he said. Oh yeah, nothing weird about that at all. Those kids are going to pay off some therapist’s student loans. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3039 "2024-11-04T00:47:06Z")
From the article: > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > “What I’m really trying to do is ensure that my kids have an isolated and differential breeding network,” Good thing this is on the record - it’ll come in handy in the inevitable child abuse case. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3040 "2024-11-05T20:54:53Z")
I’ve personally known a couple of huge families – in my youth years ago – none of them were necessarily part of any specific organzation or “cult” (other than the RCC). But the kids I knew who came from those families hated how they were raised, and either hated their parents or thought they were nut cases. I don’t think it’s an especially healthy environment on the whole. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3041 "2024-11-05T21:31:39Z")
If they’re so genetically superior to the rest of us, why are they wearing coke-bottle glasses in their 30s? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=151) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=153)