From top to bottom, the national GOP organization could soon be rid of anyone seen as insufficiently MAGA.
First came the internal grumbling about Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
Then came McDanielās decision to step down from her post at the end of February as she lost the support of Donald Trump.
After that came Trumpās move to put forward a slate of loyalists to take over the partyās top spotsāincluding an election-denying state party chair, a Trump campaign senior adviser, and the former presidentās own daughter-in-law.
Next could come the purge.
āI think within 30 days youāll see a purge of staffers from the RNC, because itās a hotbed for anti-Trumpism,ā Steve Bannon, Trumpās former chief strategist and host of the War Room podcast told The Daily Beast. āThatās the open secret.ā
Skeptical holdouts within the RNC have gotten the message: Their days are numbered.
Perhaps we didnāt learn anything from the rise of Third Reich
You know, youāre right. I may not have been around during those times, but thereās plenty of examples I should have learned from by now (Israel, China x Uyghurs, Germany (WWII), USA (Japanese Internment Camps), etc
Thereāll be quiet supporters, loud supporters, secret police (looking at you losers in yellow and black here in the states) all the cards are there really
However I will say that a purge (like the movie?) where everyone is killing each other? Probs not fam.
War isnāt the same as a horror movie trope although they can still be compared of course
I donāt think they are invoking the movie. The term purge means to remove unwanted parts of a whole. The movie just takes it to the extreme as it does its central premise
Yeah I canāt read for shit
Nah. Notice what happened here, it will happen again. The word āpurgeā has been used as a euphemism for so long that itās simple meaning isnāt the first thought anymore.
That programming ran on the moment you read the word, before you even though about the meaning of its inclusion in the context.
This is normal human behavior, and it is exploitable.
You will see Fascism (and the Media reporting throughout fascist times) get really funny with words. You will see fancy small syllable words for all kinds of innocent things, mean other things.
Always question language, itās a tool unto itself.