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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,483 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:34 PM Aug 9

An Inside Look: How the Law-and-Order Party became the Party of Jeffery Epstein

Let me begin with a question that a lot of us are asking ourselves. How did we get here? How is it that right now, as we speak, there are American citizens that haven't been charged with a crime, much less convicted, sitting in a concentration camp in Florida while one of the most notorious, evil, child sex traffickers of our time has cut some sweetheart deal so that she has been transferred from a prison in Florida to a Club Fed in Texas?

This sweetheart deal violates the Prison Bureau guidelines that prohibit sex offenders from minimum security prisons. But now Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in that Club Fed after two days of talking to the president's personal criminal defense attorney, who is currently masquerading as an Assistant Attorney General. How did we get to a place where innocent American citizens are held in a Florida concentration camp while this monster named Maxwell is now serving her sentence, taking yoga classes? How did it happen? Well, the easy answer is that we elected Donald Trump. But that's really a cop-out because it's not just Donald Trump.

When Trump first started to dominate the Republican Party, many of my Bush-era Republican friends talked about how Donald Trump had hijacked our party. This never made sense to me. The hijacker on the plane is not popular with the passengers. No one is thanking the hijacker for the chance to go to Cuba instead of grandma’s house. But Donald Trump quickly became the most popular figure in the Republican Party by a wide margin.

In my view, the only intellectually honest conclusion was that Trump didn’t hijack the Party, he revealed it. People don’t abandon deeply held beliefs in a matter of months. When you go from the “Character Counts” party to fervent support for a guy who talks in public about dating his daughter, it doesn’t mean that you have changed a deeply held principle. It proves that you never had deeply held beliefs. What the party called “bedrock principles” turned out to be nothing more than marketing slogans.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/an-inside-look-how-the-law-and-order

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An Inside Look: How the Law-and-Order Party became the Party of Jeffery Epstein (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 9 OP
How did we get here? J_William_Ryan Aug 9 #1
FoxNews brainwashing the GOP and insulating rightwing pols from accountability is also LymphocyteLover Aug 9 #7
Fact: sheshe2 Aug 9 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author sheshe2 Aug 9 #3
only partial article available at link unless paid subscriber RockCreek Aug 9 #4
"trump didn't hijack the Party, he revealed it." Paladin Aug 9 #5
They were never a law and order party. mwmisses4289 Aug 9 #6

J_William_Ryan

(2,991 posts)
1. How did we get here?
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:45 PM
Aug 9

The OP is mostly correct – we got here the consequence of Trump and the GOP.

We also got here the consequence of the fear, ignorance, and stupidity, the racism, bigotry, and hate of the voters.

It was the voters who put a fascist thug, authoritarian despot, criminal, and convicted felon in the WH.

And it’s the fault of the voters that innocent American citizens are held in a Florida concentration camp and a convicted sex offender is transferred to a minimum security day camp.

LymphocyteLover

(8,719 posts)
7. FoxNews brainwashing the GOP and insulating rightwing pols from accountability is also
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 09:07 PM
Aug 9

a huge part of it!

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

mwmisses4289

(2,157 posts)
6. They were never a law and order party.
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 03:58 PM
Aug 9

Nor were they ever a party of "family values" or a party of "christian values".

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