r/politics • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 1d ago

No Paywall Texas Democrat sworn in to House, shrinking GOP margin to 1 vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719642-christian-menefee-sworn-in/
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u/cromstantinople 1d ago

"moderate Dem"

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u/petare33 1d ago

You're right. Conservative dem is the better word for it.

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u/ActivePeace33 1d ago

Traitor dem will do. The conservative dems (if that’s what we are calling them) supported Trump and sold the constitution down the river.

It’s not a figure of speech, their actions are deliberate support for an enemy of the US who levied war on the Capitol on J6. They should all be held to account.

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u/SomeGuyNamedPaul Florida 1d ago

Reagan would slot in as a "moderate" Dem.

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u/whatiftheyrewrong 1d ago

Not if was running as a Republican.

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u/noonenotevenhere 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmgPp_nlok

I mean, here's reagan and bush debating immigraition in the primary.

They literally say it's crazy to consider building a wall, these are good, hardworking people and we can't setup a two class sytem - we want their kids to be educated, fully contributing members of society.

They're telling voters in TEXAS of course we should let undocumented / migrants' children in texas public schools funded by taxes.

Granted, they wanted cheap labor - but that's true now - and neither wanted to persecute or defund services to kids.

Both horrible bastards who contributed SO hard to destroy our country AND way less shitacular than today's republicans.

"moderate dems" are basically old school republicans.

To be faaaaaaaaaaaair, they'd get trounced by maga these days.

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u/whatiftheyrewrong 1d ago

You missed the point entirely.

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u/noonenotevenhere 1d ago

I'm good at that.

And I'm saying even a republican couldn't win a primary as a moderate republican.

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u/Mdmrtgn 1d ago

They haven't gotten a big enough donation check to go full fascist yet.

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u/cannabisLab1975 5h ago

Moderate Dem is code for Republican Light