# 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:** 90
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1782 "2023-01-14T13:07:33Z")
I first said this on this site several years ago: if the Pubs can think of a way to outlaw the Democratic Party itself, they will. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1783 "2023-01-14T15:51:34Z")
Ok, most Republicans are not overly smart but they do have great cunning. Most of them actually don’t want to outlaw the Dems. They want them around but with no power. If the Republican Jan 6 coup had been successful and Trump was “president” today they wouldn’t outlaw the Dems. They would rig things so Dems have about…oh…25%…maybe even up to a third of house and senate seats. Why? So when things go wrong or in order to divert scrutiny, they can blame the Dems. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1784 "2023-01-14T16:07:15Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > Why? So when things go wrong or in order to divert scrutiny, they can blame the Dems. To add…if republicans had no scape goats to blame everything on they will eat their own. Republicans are the party of hate. They need a target for that hate. If they cannot point at a dem they will divide their own party and hate on each other. IIRC back when the whole Cliven Bundy thing was happening many far-right groups went to the area to “defend” Bundy. When the government did nothing and they had sat there for weeks with no enemy they started fighting among themselves. More recently we see Boebert and Taylor-Greene starting to fight. Put another way, if the conservatives got their way and poofed ALL people-of-color and and LGBTQ and transgender and whatnot out of the country tomorrow they’d find some other group to hate in short order. Keep that up and there would only be one person left and I bet they’d hate theirself. They no coherent philosophy other than hate of others and that falls apart fast when pushed. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1785 "2023-01-14T16:18:20Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > If they cannot point at a dem they will divide their own party and hate on each other. Probably divided based on religion. For example, evangelicals against less radical denominations. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1786 "2023-01-14T16:20:40Z")
I don’t know if this has already been mentioned, but I just read that the far righties in the house want the not-so-insane right to expunge Trump’s impeachment from the record. Revisionist history in the finest traditions of the Soviet Union. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1787 "2023-01-14T16:23:33Z")
Is that even possible? I mean, I think they are literally asking for the impossible (or near enough). How does it work? The House says they officially expunge Trump’s impeachment. Let it be written! 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1788 "2023-01-14T16:25:15Z")
Emmanuel Goldstein never existed, why, whatever are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1789 "2023-01-14T17:19:14Z")
Keeeeviiiiinnn has put them off by saying they have to tackle immigration, government funding and other important issues first, but that he’ll “consider it”. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1790 "2023-01-14T19:07:38Z")
Good news! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1791 "2023-01-14T20:44:44Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Let it be written! I have been saying for years that is how Tan the Conman believes “presidenting” is done. Why would his supporters in congress believe their job would be done differently? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1792 "2023-01-15T03:25:40Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Keeeeviiiiinnn has put them off by saying they have to tackle immigration, government funding and other important issues first, but that he’ll “consider it”. I think they’ll need to retroactively make it so that Obama was never president first… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1793 "2023-01-15T03:26:25Z")
Has anyone seen George Santos’s long-form birth certificate? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1794 "2023-01-15T04:21:03Z")
No doubt 'twas the same dude who forged Obama’s long-form certificate! ---
**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:** [January 17, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1795 "2023-01-17T11:49:16Z")
George Santos, who you may have heard about elsewhere, [encouraged transgender people to join the GOP](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/nyregion/santos-trans-therapy-devolder.html) while supporting the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1796 "2023-01-17T12:25:40Z")
> **[Republican ex-state House candidate arrested for allegedly orchestrating...](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/17/us/solomon-pena-arrested-new-mexico-shootings/index.html)** > > A former Republican New Mexico House of Representatives candidate -- who, police say, claimed election fraud after his defeat -- was arrested by an Albuquerque SWAT team Monday in connection with a string of recent shootings at the homes of local... ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1797 "2023-01-17T12:42:32Z")
NY Times: “Chief Harold Medina of the Albuquerque Police Department said at a news conference that the former candidate, Solomon Peña, was “the mastermind” behind a conspiracy in which four other men were paid to shoot at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators.” I knew a mastermind. A mastermind was a friend of mine. Solomon Peña, you are no mastermind. (Apologies to Lloyd Bentsen. Yes, I know “mastermind” is just an expression.) ---
**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:** [January 17, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1798 "2023-01-17T15:56:44Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I knew a mastermind. A mastermind was a friend of mine. Solomon Peña, you are no mastermind. > > (Apologies to Lloyd Bentsen. Yes, I know “mastermind” is just an expression.) Yeah, you have to wonder about the inner workings of a mind that apparently truly believes that the election was stolen by some shadowy cabal of the most powerful people in the United States, and thus in the world, and their “solution” to this problem is to shoot up a ten year old girl’s bedroom in Albuquerque. I mean, how did they imagine this would play out? “Oh my god, Mr. President, four guys in Albuquerque fired a few shots!” “Damn, I guess I have to retroactively concede the 2020 election and send myself to Guantanamo. It’s the only way!” ---
**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:** [January 17, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1799 "2023-01-17T16:31:20Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I mean, how did they imagine this would play out? Maybe they imagined it would inspire others across the country to shoot up their own Democratic rivals’ homes. You gotta admit, if this started happening with regularity, shit would happen. (Might not be the kind of shit they’re hoping for, but …) ---
**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:** [January 17, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1800 "2023-01-17T16:36:59Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Maybe they imagined it would inspire others across the country to shoot up their own Democratic rivals’ homes. But it’s just so random, and unfocused. How is a series of shootings, some of which the victim didn’t even know about until after the police started asking questions, spread out over several days, with no publicity by the perpetrators, supposed to spark a revolution? “Hey, I heard about a random shooting by some unknown people that no one really knows the motives for, I guess it’s time to overthrow the government!” I mean, take a lesson from the IRA: when you bomb a pub to kill a bunch of English soldiers, put out a press release, for god’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1801 "2023-01-17T16:38:41Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > But it’s just so random, and unfocused. You might say that it’s _stochastic_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=91)