A Wisconsin rightwinger’s fall from conservative grace: ‘The Maga crowd despises him’
A Wisconsin rightwinger’s fall from conservative grace: ‘The Maga crowd despises him’
Robin Vos, the state assembly speaker, worked hard to consolidate GOP power by all means, only to find himself under attack from his own party
Robin Vos, the state assembly speaker, worked hard to consolidate GOP power by all means, only to find himself under attack from his own party
I guess I should be a little sympathetic because he didn’t embrace their most damaging and brazen lie. Nah, fvck this guy anyway because he is a disgraceful republican in all other respects. These are awful people worthy of disdain.
I always find myself asking, do these people just think that something like the rise of the 3rd reich could never happen here? "That could never happen to us?" or something?
What do they think prevents it? The blessings of god or something?
They've been convinced it's the other party that's going to lead us into totalitarianism, because mask mandates, forgiving student debt, and "drive thru voting" are classic precursors to fascism.
tbf, the Nazis did wear masks sometimes, particularly when gas attack was threatened. So, clearly, masks are always bad.
As a Wisconsinite, I say...
Fuck Robin Vos. He's been a blight on this state for over a decade and it's high time he is shown the door. Hopefully with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, we can finally get rid of these stupidly gerrymandered congressional maps and have representation that actually reflects the population.
But he says right in the article that it's not the maps. Republicans earning 45% of the statewide vote but ending up with 2/3 of the seats in the legislature is completely fair, apparently.
I wonder if he said the bit where he suggested that Democrats may not have more seats because of campaign or strategy with a straight face?
Maybe he's saying that the democratic need to get better at unrigging the maps? Meanwhile he has blocked effectively, so that's good strategy?
Good
"I'd never thought the leopards would eat my face" says man in charge of leopards eating face party.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The nomination reflects a stark turn of fortunes for Vos, who has spent more than a decade using every tool at his disposal to cement Republican power in Wisconsin, touting a deeply conservative record including on voting.
The same year, he followed former Republican governor Scott Walker’s lead in creating the most restrictive voter identification law in the country and passing legislation to kneecap union power in a state where organized labor was once the core of the Democratic coalition.
Now, Vos is fighting elements of his party that rejected the results of the 2020 election and have come to view him not as a hardline conservative who has done more than almost anyone else to strengthen Republicans’ power in the state, but as a corrupt establishment hack complicit in Trump’s undoing.
“There’s a segment of the Maga crowd who despises him, because they adamantly believe President Trump was cheated,” said a veteran Wisconsin GOP operative, who spoke anonymously given his role within pro-Trump circles.
In June 2021, as Wisconsin Republicans gathered for their annual convention, Trump issued a statement accusing Vos and other legislative party leaders of “working hard to cover up election corruption”.
A group that goes by the name “Wisconsin Elections Commission, Inc” has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV and newspaper ads running regularly since November pressuring Vos to impeach Wolfe.
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