Has zero chance of winning is the reason. Claiming to have a conscience looks nice on a headline.
100% this.
Might as well throw in the towel now than spend the next 10 months desperately trying to claw out some kind of position while everyone in the state wants to hang you. There’s just more opportunity to get clipped trying to defend the indefensible, meanwhile just sit out the storm and rebrand later has more chances of success.
Republican positions are going to be impossible to defend in that state, and in many other states as well. We need to all see this as a victory no matter what 3 ghosts did or did not visit this chump in the night.
But didn’t drop out of the party. Not in 2016 and not now. That tells me all I need to know.
Boy, if our democracy survives this, I’ll bet Minnesota’s state-level GOP will be a mess and will need to do a lot of backpedaling. But worse for them: even having seen over the last decade how pathetically short-sighted and amnesic people are politically, I can’t foresee Minnesota ever forgiving the GOP nationally in my lifetime. They’ve burned this bridge badly. Wishful thinking, but I think this is how you create a solid blue state.
We’ve been a solid blue state since the '70s. And we’ve only voted Republican 3 times since 1932.
Our GOP is already pathetic and impotent. Our local Democrats (DFL) are already significantly more progressive and effective than the DNC.
But this is adding fuel to the fire in a big way, no doubt.
I wouldn’t call Minnesota a “solid blue state” right now by any metric except that both of your US Senators are Democratic.
- Your Senate is split 34–33 DFL–Republican and the House 65–67 (plus two vacant).
- Your progressive governor has caved to pressure over a nonsensical scandal not to run again, and despite the fact that he was on the ticket as the VP, the Harris–Walz ticket only beat Trump – an insane fascist – by 50.92–46.68%.
- Your representatives to the US House are split evenly between Democrats and Republicans.
It honestly feels like democracy is dead already and that to be trying to get back to what USA may have once been is a bad idea because the foundation is already rotted an corrupted.
Sadly I think people need to stop trying to fix what we had and create something new. And that would probably involve a lot of bloodshed and even then the new creation will already have people trying to infiltrate and corrupt it.
Honestly… Understanding chaos and how to live in it seems like the only truth alive.
trying to fix what we had and create something new
They don’t rule each other out, also you’ll never ever get a blank page to start with even if you write a constitution and a book of laws all from scratch. But i agree that going back will very likely lead to the situation you have now.
Honestly… Understanding chaos and how to live in it seems like the only truth alive.
On an individual level i think this is the only way, you have to play the cards you’re dealt whether you like it or not. But please don’t just sit back and take it, you deserve better than that.
Rats on a sinking ship, nothing more.
In what sense is murdering Americans in their own streets “immigration enforcement”? That phrase itself is propaganda.
“Earlier this month, Madel said he helped ICE agent Jonathan Ross with paperwork to get Justice Department legal representation if he is sued or charged with a crime.”
What’s different about this one, you disingenuous piece of shit?
Get that Somali mayoral candidate to run for gov. Walz announced he isn’t running.
