Three state senators who were defeated in Tuesday’s primary told NBC News they don’t feel differently about the redistricting vote that drew Trump’s ire.
After a group of Indiana Republican legislators rejected their party’s redistricting plan last year, they faced public ridicule from Donald Trump and millions of dollars in negative attack ads, with several ultimately losing their jobs Tuesday.
But three of those state senators told NBC News on Wednesday that they have no second thoughts about the vote that put them in the spotlight and led to their defeats at the hands of Trump-backed challengers.
ALL politicians take a Constitutional oath to defend America against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. The Founding Fathers understood that the nation has as much to fear from its own government as any foreign entity.
MAGA is a genuine, ongoing, AGGRESSIVE National Security Threat. They planned, supported, and launched an Insurrection, intended to kill the VP and numerous lawmakers, overthrow the government, and install a Dictator-For-Life. MAGA supported the theft of hundreds of classified documents. They have participated in the theft of countless and incalculable data and secrets, participated in an historical level of corruption, sold pardons to criminals, and gave pardons to cover for criminal activity. They weaponized the DoJ to attack their enemies. They have heavily protected the Epstein Files and covered for pedophiles and human traffickers. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. What more do they have to do to be considered a National Security Threat?
If ISIS or Al Qaeda or the Taliban came to America and started strategically throwing around billions of dollars to take over portions of the government, we would stop them, wouldn’t we? Would we allow a KKK party that openly calls for the return of lynching, or a Neo-Nazi Party that openly called for a Neo-Holocaust? Of course not, the First Amendment doesn’t extend to SEDITIOUS speech and behavior.
MAGA is just as dangerous as any of those organizations, literally Domestic Terrorists, and yet they been allowed to flourish, and take over. If we manage to take back this country AGAIN, we can’t squander the opportunity AGAIN. It is imperative that our elected officials find the courage to act decisively, and ban MAGA from existing, including the Republican Party.
Conservatives would not be prohibited from forming a new party, but If we had gone that far to purge MAGA, then whatever followed would have to be carefully guided, so they didn’t devolve into treason and corruption again.
That means the new party couldn’t include any of the people or philosophies that defined MAGA. They’d have to start from scratch. If they want to be the traditional party of Smaller Government, Lower Taxes, Family Values, Fiscal Responsibility, etc., that’s fine, but they better show concrete evidence that they are pursuing those goals, and not just lying to the American people to gain power, and go MAGA again.
They are a National Security Threat. We are under no obligation to honor ANY of their demands.
So I understand all the things they are doing and such. More of it doesn’t impact what CAN be done. You cannot declare what philosophys are allowed. You also can’t say who can be in a party. Only who can run for office to some extent. And I don’t want to live a place where you could. The KKK exists, and could form a party if it wanted. The only control is to not vote for them so the don’t get federal funding or whatever they get if they get some percent of a vote for pres or whatever.
It’s not about their philosophies, it’s about their crimes. The problem with ISIS/ Al Qeda/ Taliban isn’t their religion or their politics or their philosophy, it’s their crimes and their violence. In fact, it was ALWAYS the American law enforcement policy to treat terrorism as a CRIMINAL offense. Terrorists aren’t supposed to go to jail for the politics or their religion, just their crimes.
Likewise, I do not advocate for punishing MAGA Domestic Terrorists for their politics, just their CRIMES. That is more than enough. And I don’t advocate for banning MAGA for the conservative philosophies, just their corruption, Sedition, pedophilia, etc. Conservatives are more than welcome to rebuild their party, they just can’t build it around the same treasonous, corrupt, racist policies as MAGA.
And it is perfectly reasonable to punish Sedition and Treason. Those are crimes.