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yuiyoshida

(41,872 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:49 PM Jun 2018

Steve Schmidt ‏quits the Republican PARTY





29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.

It is corrupt, indecent and immoral. With the exception of a few Governors like Baker, Hogan and Kasich it is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party’s greatest leaders. This child separation policy is connected to the worst abuses of

Humanity in our history. It is connected by the same evil that separated families during slavery and dislocated tribes and broke up Native American families. It is immoral and must be repudiated. Our country is in trouble. Our politics are badly broken. The first step to a

Season of renewal in our land is the absolute and utter repudiation of Trump and his vile enablers in the 2018 election by electing Democratic majorities. I do not say this as an advocate of a progressive agenda. I say it as someone who retains belief in DEMOCRACY and decency.

On Ronald Reagan’s grave are these words. “ I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” He would be ashamed of McConnell and Ryan and all the rest while this corrupt government

Establishes internment camps for babies. Everyone of these complicit leaders will carry this shame through history. There legacies will be ones of well earned ignominy. They have disgraced their country and brought dishonor to the Party of Lincoln.

I have spent much of my life working in GOP politics. I have always believed that both parties were two of the most important institutions to the advancement of human freedom and dignity in the history of the world. Today the GOP has become a danger to our democracy and values.

This Independent voter will be aligned with the only party left in America that stands for what is right and decent and remains fidelitous to our Republic, objective truth, the rule of law and our Allies. That party is the Democratic Party.

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GOOD for him
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Steve Schmidt ‏quits the Republican PARTY (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jun 2018 OP
While selling the silly and absurd notion that the Republican Party of 1854 is the same... Garrett78 Jun 2018 #1
Yeah, it hasn't been that party for a long time nt More_Cowbell Jun 2018 #2
CONGRATULATIONS, STEVE SCHMIDT! Totally Tunsie Jun 2018 #3

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
1. While selling the silly and absurd notion that the Republican Party of 1854 is the same...
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:52 PM
Jun 2018

...as the Republican Party he supported until just recently.

As if pre-Trump Republicans, including McCain, weren't constantly pushing horrific policy. As if the Southern Strategy/dog whistling, race-based voter suppression, race-based gerrymandering, xenophobia, gun-loving culture and more didn't make the rise of Trump or someone like him all but inevitable.

The blood won't come off your hands very easily, Steve.

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