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  • CNBC Poll: Republicans Want Trump To Remain Head of the Party

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 13th 2021 9:28am EST

    The party of Jeff Flake is dead as a doornail. CNBC: “A CNBC survey conducted in the days before former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial finds a large share of Republicans want him to remain head of their party, but a majority of Americans want him out of politics. The CNBC All-America Economic Survey shows 54% of Americans […]

  • GOP Exodus

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 5:32pm EST

    The good news keeps rolling in. New York Times: “In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations. In California, more than 33,000 registered […]

  • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Has Embraced Neoliberal Joe

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 1:06pm EST

    Good riddance. This is a huge win for Republicans. Politico: “Washington’s most powerful trade group is having a political identity crisis. Over the past month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has taken a series of steps that have enraged its traditional Republican allies. It applauded much of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan to Covid […]

  • Tucker Carlson: Oligarchs Want To Shut Down FOX News

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 12th 2021 9:25am EST

    Fascinating comments about Fox News just now from Fox CO Lachlan Murdoch: “We believe that where we are targeted, to the center-right, is where we should be targeted. We don’t believe we should go further right… and absolutely we won’t go to the left.”— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) February 9, 2021 There is only so far […]

  • The GOP Should Start Acting Like a Working Class Party

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 11th 2021 2:56pm EST

    This is also my take. There has been a dramatic resorting of the electorate. Some White working class Independents and Democrats are now Republicans. Meanwhile, some suburban Republicans have now gone over to the Democrats. The PMC ratio in the Republican Party isn’t what it used to be. The voters have changed. The rhetoric and […]

  • Neoliberal Joe Ends Border National Emergency

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 11th 2021 1:24pm EST

    Joe is already off to a great start doubling down on all of the mistakes of Barack Obama’s second term that sent MAGA voters fleeing into Donald Trump’s arms. Politico: “President Joe Biden on Thursday formally terminated former President Donald Trump’s two-year-old declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, calling the order by […]

  • Reuters: Dozens of Former Republican Officials In Talks To Form True Cons Third Party

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 11th 2021 12:22am EST

    This is fantastic news. It is the best news since that poll came out which showed 64% of Trump voters now believe that their race is very, extremely or somewhat important to their identity. Reuters: “(Reuters) – Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald […]

  • GOP Eyes Working Class Future

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 5:02pm EST

    I used to laugh at the idea of a multiracial, working class, populist Republican Party. I thought there is no way that something like that could work. I’m not so sure now though. Axios: “Republicans, long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on working class white, Hispanic and Black […]

  • Axios: GOP Eyes Working Class Future

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 5:02pm EST

    I used to laugh at the idea of a multiracial, working class, populist Republican Party. I thought there is no way that something like that could work. I’m not so sure now though. Axios: “Republicans, long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on working class white, Hispanic and Black […]

  • Poll: Trump Voters Control The GOP

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 2:24pm EST

    Donald Trump is gone. Trump voters are a different story. VOX: “A new poll hints at one potential reason so many Republican lawmakers remain wary of distancing themselves from former President Donald Trump and seem reluctant to convict him in the Senate’s impeachment trial: There’s a real possibility they’d endanger their electoral prospects. In a […]

  • FT: Big Tech Needs To Tackle The White Supremacists Of Generation Z

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 10th 2021 11:36am EST

    pic.twitter.com/qPtSTwD6Vs— Leighton Akira Woodhouse (@lwoodhouse) February 10, 2021 London doesn’t need Sadiq Khan’s ‘diversity commission’. Read my comments for @BreitbartLondon https://t.co/1Sfo613bnl— David Kurten (@davidkurten) February 10, 2021 NEW: Twitter suspends the account of Republican Rep. Devin Nunes: pic.twitter.com/6ODvTgXO8t— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) February 10, 2021 This guy thinks his opinion on groypers matters lol pic.twitter.com/9kctJLE4QW— TotallyNotAGlowie […]

  • Donald Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 9th 2021 9:22pm EST

    2nd acquittal coming … all the rest is just laughable, embarrassing Kabuki theater.— Catturd (@catturd2) February 9, 2021 The political/media system is once again consumed with debating the personal conduct of Trump. As with any chemical dependency, withdrawal is really hard and sometimes you go backward— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 9, 2021 “They could have […]

  • The Trump Coalition Is Still Intact

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 9th 2021 11:47am EST

    Shortly after the 2020 election, Ann Coulter gave a speech about Donald Trump that hit the nail on the head. She was also viciously attacked by the personality cultists for pointing out the obvious flaws of his leadership and how we wouldn’t reap the benefits of his legacy until he was gone. Breitbart: “The reason […]

  • The Week: The Realignment That Wasn’t

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 1:45pm EST

    I’ve concluded there was a realignment. The 2016 election fundamentally changed the Republican Party. The composition of the Republican base looks different now. The Trump voters came into the Republican Party in 2016 and knocked other people out of the party and the process continued in the 2020 election. The establishment wing of the party […]

  • Chris Hayes: The Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 11:45am EST

    Tried to order my thoughts on where things stand politically right now. My basic takeaway: the entire ideological basis of post Reagan conservatism has crumbled. It’s left the GOP with no real coherent program other than retaining power at all costs. https://t.co/INIHV8X87t— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 8, 2021 I enjoyed this article. It helped me […]

  • Smash Big Tech

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 1:16am EST

    If you are still under the delusion that you can bargain with Big Tech or that the free market will fix this problem, I don’t know what to say to you. Your autistic ideology has been discredited. TAC: “I want to put an end to cancel culture like every other freedom-loving American, but I certainly […]

  • White Populism Is The Future Of The GOP

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 4:07pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. .@Liz_Cheney: Donald Trump “does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward…We should not be embracing the former president.” pic.twitter.com/c0M7iFkfO4— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 7, 2021 Well, this one went off the rails a bit — okay, a lot — but in a […]

  • Sen. Ben Sasse: Message To Nebraska GOP State Central Committee

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 10:54am EST

    Donald Trump isn’t the president anymore. What effect is that having on his voters though? Are they becoming more radical with him gone? In my view, Trump was always a soothing influence on them. They literally “trusted the plan” and went to sleep for four years. It is obviously the Democrats and the media who […]

  • PMC Hysteria

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 8:40pm EST

    So many targets. Now that Donald Trump is gone, what is there to fight about? Personally, I didn’t think he was doing a good job, but he is no longer the president. Joe is the president. PBS: “As Republicans adjust to their diminished stature in Washington, they have been consumed by infighting over the party’s […]

  • Donald Trump’s Own Pollster Reveals Why He Lost

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 6:14pm EST

    I feel like a load has been dropped. In my view, Donald Trump was simply the material that was available that a rising tide of populism latched onto in the 2016 election. It wasn’t the man himself who brought all of those people into the GOP. It was the message that he ran on which […]

  • AEI: Donald Trump and the Future of the GOP

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 1:02pm EST

    This is excellent. I feel vindicated by this survey. Donald Trump won in 2016 by running as a moderate, a populist and a nationalist and away from “True Conservatism.” He won by leaning into the disaffected Center which is the reason why he electrified the Alt-Right. The so-called “far right” was the big block of […]

  • House Votes To Remove Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committee Assignments

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 4th 2021 7:37pm EST

    Glorious. pic.twitter.com/BGIZGeRBUQ— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) February 4, 2021 In 2018, Rep Greene approvingly shared a white supremacist video claiming that “an unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and Zionist supremacists has schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation, with the deliberate aim of breeding us out of existence in our own homelands”— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 4, […]

  • Mitt Romney Proposes $350 Monthly Payments For Children

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 4th 2021 1:46pm EST

    What is happening? Who reprogrammed Mitt Romney? Why does Mitt Romney suddenly want to give us money? Does Mitt know something that we don’t know about the politics of wealth redistribution? Forbes: “If Mitt Romney’s new plan becomes law, you may get up to $350 cash each month for every child that you have. Here’s […]

  • Washington Examiner: Donald Trump Voters Are Domestic Terrorists

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 1st 2021 7:06pm EST

    There is an “enemy within.” I don’t think it is the QAnon Shaman or Baked F**king Alaska though. It is hysterical people who live in a bubble, who are drunk on power and who talk like this about American citizens. Washington Examiner: “First, bring the heaviest felony charges possible on as many participants in the […]

  • GOP Proposes $1,000 Stimulus Checks

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 1st 2021 1:03pm EST

    Apparently, the Republican Senate still hasn’t learned its lesson. CNBC: “The next stimulus checks could be smaller than $1,400 and reach fewer people if a new plan put forward by some Republican senators is approved. The new proposal from a group of 10 GOP lawmakers calls for $1,000 checks per person, rather than the $1,400 sum […]