It's amazing how quickly the party of small government, states rights, and the 2nd amendment quickly turned against all their principles. It really shows how many people care more about party than principle.

It's not that amazing. The Republican party has repeatedly demonstrated my entire life that their goal is power and all stated ideals can and will be sacrificed as needed to achieve that goal.

We get things like philandering individuals running on family values platforms, anti-gay individuals being caught performing gay sex acts in restaurant bathrooms, crowing about deficits and the national debt during Democrat administrations while cutting taxes and increasing spending during Republican administrations, blocking Supreme Court nominations because it's "too close to an election" while pushing through another Supreme Court nomination mere weeks before a subsequent election, etc.

The fuel running the Republican political machine is bad faith.

> shows how many people care more about party than principle

"Trump’s net approval rating on immigration has declined by about 4 points since the day before Good’s death until today. Meanwhile, his overall approval rating has declined by 2 points and is near its second-term lows" [1].

I'd encourage anyone watching to actually pay attention to "how many people care more about party than principle." I suspect it's fewer than MAGA high command thinks.

[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-is-losing-normies-on-immi...

Two percent of Americans changing their opinion in the face of state sanctioned murder is not a good number.

The people who still support the orange troll live in an echo chamber where they've been sold the bullshit that quran waiving communist terrorists and the deep state are behind all of this, and it's a con job.

Multiple state sanctioned murder

Not to mention the extrajudicial killings

Not to mention the Epstein reports

I'm really not sure what people actually care about because for some reason they won't actually tell you

> Two percent of Americans changing their opinion in the face of state sanctioned murder is not a good number

Two percent could swing an election. And two percent can convince another two percentage points to get angry. Never dismiss small swings out of hand.

I welcome it, don't get me wrong, and every little bit helps. But the fact that we have so many people like this is still a massive problem.

They haven’t turned against their principles. Party is the principle. You’re just confused because you thought their stated principles were real.

I spent too much of the 90s listening to Rush Limbaugh and consuming other conservative media and the exact same contradictions were prominently on display then. They absolutely excoriated law enforcement for things like the Waco siege. The phrase “jack-booted thugs” got used. But when LAPD beat the shit out of Rodney King on video, suddenly police could do no wrong.

It's important to distinguish between their stated principles and their actually held principles. They are quite principled.

Most people understand this. We're just using fewer words because most people understand

I assume the NRA are out in droves at a US citizen being executed for carrying a gun?

I guess this is an example of FAFO? This is what the NRA wanted, now they got to find out how what happens when there are too many guns and too many idiots with guns masquerading as law enforcement. The guy had every right to have a gun, and the masked tyrants had no right to kill him for it.

The NRA is ostensibly pro guns but they are also pro oppression.

they are pro-money and pro-gun-industry.

ain't no left wing causes giving them $$$, just the GOP, gun industry, and occasionally the Russians

They are not where I would hold them to if they were truly a principled organization and not largely a political tool for the far-right on any and every talking point, but we got far more out of them than we usually do.

They publicly called out a Trump appointee for saying you're not allowed to bring a gun to a protest, and have urged that there be an investigation in to what occurred.

They also then blamed it on the MN government, because for some reason CBP (250 miles from a border, and thus 150 miles away from their remit...) pretending to be police officers when they also lack a remit to do that and them then fucking things up and murdering people because of the lack of remit, lack of training, lack of screening on the hiring... is because of Walz and co.

So... better than I expected, but still pretty dogshit.

He was killed after he instigated a fight with law enforcement and his gun went off accidentally. Unfortunate for him, but it was entirely avoidable had he simply chosen not to attack law enforcement.

That's odd because I see him knelt with a gun to his head and a cell phone in his hand