# 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:** 52
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1022 "2022-03-01T16:16:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s tribalism, straying into full-on cult mentality. They know that the Republicans are terrible, but their worldview relies on the Democrats _always being worse_ , no matter what I was able to get out, but that was around 2004, long before social media. I was also too poor to have cable so wasn’t exposed to cable news, although I don’t think it is as bad as it is now. I wonder if I would’ve “escaped” if I was drowning in social media, Fox News, and other right-wing propaganda? I hope the answer is yes. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1023 "2022-03-01T16:37:16Z")
Would _you_ associate with the Left if you had any other choice? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1024 "2022-03-01T16:37:46Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And as the GOP have descended more and more into outright lying, corruption, criminality and sedition and continue to undermine the rule of law and democracy, they have accordingly adjusted their view of what Democrats **must** be like in order for them to be even worse. The Liberal Strawmen just get bigger and uglier and more fearsome as the actual GOP gets more deranged. _Our_ leopards are busy munching down on our faces, _their_ leopards must be far far worse. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1025 "2022-03-01T16:41:45Z")
We’re nightmares to associate with, nightmares, I tell you. Always discussing our sinister plans for expanding access to health care and reforming our election systems. It’s fucking Marxism is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1026 "2022-03-01T17:12:46Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I spoke with one who explained — on her own initiative, not in response to anything I’d asked — _“I think he’s an idiot, but I like his policies.”_ Sadly, I have a BIL that is mostly the same opinion. I really like the guy other than his politics. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1027 "2022-03-01T17:20:30Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > _“I think he’s an idiot, but I like his policies.”_ Mainly his “policy” of “owning the libs” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1028 "2022-03-01T17:28:08Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > > _“I think he’s an idiot, but I like his policies.”_ > > Mainly his “policy” of “owning the libs” I don’t see good odds of this going anywhere interesting, but: I’d say the idea is, _one_, foiling the libs; and then, having done that, sure, _two_, owning the libs. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1029 "2022-03-01T17:47:27Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > > I spoke with one who explained — on her own initiative, not in response to anything I’d asked — _“I think he’s an idiot, but I like his policies.”_ > > Sadly, I have a BIL that is mostly the same opinion. I really like the guy other than his politics. Just curious what happens if you follow up with, “What policies, and what makes you think they’re good for the country?” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1030 "2022-03-01T17:53:02Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Just curious what happens if you follow up with, “What policies, and what makes you think they’re good for the country? _What policies_ is easy: guns, taxes, abortion, illegal immigration, affirmative action, what’s being taught in schools these days, whether people who were assigned male at birth should compete in women’s sports and use women’s bathrooms — I’m sure you could fill in some more blanks without much effort. _What makes you think_ is a longer conversation. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1031 "2022-03-01T17:55:21Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Just curious what happens if you follow up with, “What policies, and what makes you think they’re good for the country?” My BIL told my Wife (his sister that ‘he likes his policies’). I only see him once a year or so. I suspect that as he recently retired from the oil industry, and he is well off, that he likes the Trump tax policy. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1032 "2022-03-01T17:55:36Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Just curious what happens if you follow up with, “What policies, and what makes you think they’re good for the country?” Honestly, the only thing he did that I’d consider to be a “policy” was the tax cuts, and even that was the same thing every other Republican would have done in his position. Everything else he did just seemed like blundering around knocking shit over. Did starting a trade war with Canada actually appear to be a thought-out policy, as opposed to a petulant over-reaction to Justin Trudeau making Trump look bad? ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1033 "2022-03-01T18:03:17Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > [@Akaj](#): > > > > Just curious what happens if you follow up with, “What policies, and what makes you think they’re good for the country? > > _What policies_ is easy: guns, taxes, abortion, illegal immigration, affirmative action, what’s being taught in schools these days, whether people who were assigned male at birth should compete in women’s sports and use women’s bathrooms — I’m sure you could fill in some more blanks without much effort. > > _What makes you think_ is a longer conversation. But most of those aren’t policies – they’re barely talking points. I suppose if you draw them out they can explain appointing SCOTUS judges to overturn Roe (abortion) and ruthless deportation initiatives (immigration), but do they ever have those opinions challenged on a “good for the country” basis? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1034 "2022-03-01T18:20:56Z")
Um…let’s hope the senate does better? > **[3 House Republicans Vote Against Making Lynching A Hate Crime](https://sports.yahoo.com/3-house-republicans-vote-against-171235821.html)** > > GOP Reps. Andrew Clyde, Thomas Massie and Chip Roy voted against the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. > [@](#): > > “The House today has sent a resounding message that our nation is finally reckoning with one of the darkest and most horrific periods of our history, and that we are morally and legally committed to changing course,” [Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.)] said. The bill will now go to the Senate, where it is expected to pass. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1035 "2022-03-01T18:33:33Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > But most of those aren’t policies – they’re barely talking points. I suppose if you draw them out they can explain appointing SCOTUS judges to overturn Roe (abortion) and ruthless deportation initiatives (immigration), but do they ever have those opinions challenged on a “good for the country” basis? Unfortunately, the only one there I can speak to at length is the only one I’ve asked her about: abortion. And you can pretty much guess how that went: she doesn’t believe it should be legal, because she believes it’s murder; but, so long as it is legal, she believes it shouldn’t be encouraged (let alone helped along by her tax dollars — but discouraging abortions by throwing up roadblocks, from _mandatory waiting periods causing at least some people to rethink their decisions_ to _requiring parental consent so at least some such decisions by minors will be overruled_ to _onerous restrictions that cause at least some abortion clinics to shut down_, that’s all fine in her book). And, of course, she’s okay with Supreme Court Justices striking down **Roe** for reasons other than acknowledging that ‘abortion is murder’ — so long as they _do_ so strike it down, that’s the important part. Which reminds me that I’ve drifted from your point; but all I can really say is that asking her about the “good for the country” basis for opposing abortion is, from her perspective, like asking her about the “good for the country” basis for opposing various other subsets of, y’know, the murder of innocents: sure, she’ll go into a slippery-slope argument about societal approval making it easier to okay yet other murders, and who’s to be next on the chopping block, yada yada death panels yada yada senior citizens — but she doesn’t want anyone to lose sight of the fact that she believes abortion is murder in its own right, and that it’s a little weird to ask about whether legalizing the murder of _these_ innocents or _those_ innocents would be good for the country. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1036 "2022-03-01T18:34:32Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > But most of those aren’t policies – they’re barely talking points. And most of them aren’t about how to make things better for _you_, they are how to make things worse for other people. But, to be fair, to a Republican, making things worse for the _right_ people is good for the country. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1037 "2022-03-01T18:37:12Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > _Our_ leopards are busy munching down on our faces, _their_ leopards must be far far worse. Better the leopard you know… ---
**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:** [March 2, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1038 "2022-03-02T01:36:03Z")
Hurting the “right people” ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1039 "2022-03-03T14:43:33Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I would love to see the Republican Party expel the racists. Then they could caucus in a Fiat 500! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1040 "2022-04-09T01:46:27Z")
Alabama clamps down on transgender children; more red states to follow. > **[Transgender kids fear Alabama laws targeting medicine, bathrooms](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/transgender-kids-fear-alabama-laws-targeting-medicine-bathrooms)** > > Bills have been introduced to ban gender-affirming care and block transgender children from using school restrooms or playing on sports teams that don't match their sex at birth. No idea why this thread isn’t used more often. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1041 "2022-04-09T02:01:09Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > No idea why this thread isn’t used more often. Well, you can’t expect a non-controversial statement to be a real eye-catcher… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=53)