http://www.politico.com/news/m...blicans-rino-00088285

>>... Records aren't kept on such things, but Trump is clearly the most promiscuous user of "RINO" in Republican Party history. He applies it to everyone from Republicans who now have a genuinely strained connection to the party, like Liz Cheney, to stand-out governors like DeSantis and Brian Kemp of Georgia.

It's not as though RINO, an insult and not the most subtle one, was ever a precise term. Once upon a time, it was an acronym applied to moderate Republicans who accommodated the other side on substance and process. In recent years, though, Trump has appropriated it as completely as the phrase "fake news."

In a sign of the personalization of the Republican Party, one doesn't get deemed a RINO for showing disloyalty to the party as an institution, or to its political principles and policy commitments, but for crossing one man, who himself, as it happens, has little loyalty to the party...<<

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Seems like the trumpster might be losing his grip on the party, but he still enjoys significant devotion from the lumpen proles.

And the party lackeys are still afraid to be seen as insufficiently submissive to him.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

I saw a dotard holding a sign with it spelled "RHINO" the other day.

The best guys indeed...

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