It's a thing. Link goes to Twitter page that collects the hashtags.
A guy uploaded a video explaining all the reasons he's liberal. The video is available everywhere, including at the top of the link, redirects here.
(I got 10 seconds into it and go, Dude, you're wearing me out.) Since you're so smart, what took so long?
Pluth he thpeakth with a lithp. Stop judging me, I can't help it. I hear thomeone thpeak and the retht of the day I'm thpeaking like they do.
Tenderhearted people are noticing the party they've sworn their fealty is actually malevolent at its core. The reasons they've joined it are the reasons they're turning their backs to it. The left is breaking apart and the pieces are explaining themselves across social media. So then, if you are not Democrat, then what are you? Trumpsters, that's what. MAGA.
The Epoch Times. Isn't the epoch/times an oxymoron?
It's interesting. It's a movement away from the Democrat party and it's picking up steam. It's all the things that we've told them now being discovered on their own.
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What did Zell Miller call it?
A National Party No More.
A couple of other points.
First, this guy wants to reject hate. Where was he when Willie practiced the Politics of Personal Destruction? Where was he when Zippy told his acolytes, "Get in their faces. Punch back twice as hard"?
The article says lifelong Democrats who simply could not take it any longer and have longed for this very moment, when somebody like them would make it safe for them to come out of the closet and speak their minds; they had 50 years to do this. Why now?
I think the impact of Donald Trump's winning is getting to them. They see a lot of old people using rhetoric they used as 20 year olds. They were raised with it and it's stopped winning.
Which is the second point. All the "traditional" Liberals in the 60 found they would either have to join the hippie dippy crowd or be left at the roadside. They went along with abortion and same sex marriage as rights, that our guys in 'Nam were baby killers and the war was "unjust" even though anybody with a brain knew the VC and the NVA were savages. They had no problem with Bill Moyers' campaign tactics in '64.
Now they say they can do it no longer. Or maybe it's just the Millenials, who go all wee wee at the first sign of conflict. Maybe it's their Tea Party.
At this point, I'm a little skeptical because these people are being shunned the way people like Georgie Jessel and Anita Bryant and Martha Raye were shunned. Those people were destroyed
They may be back on the lines after Trump's newest "outrage" (rather likely) or, like the Deplorables, they may be the beginning of a new politics.
I remember Troop said he thought Trump wasn't the Reformer, but the man who paved the way for the Reformer. A sort of Don The Baptist figure.
We may all have to rethink that idea.
Seeing the hashtag trend on Twitter myself.
Anecdotal evidence of people saying they don’t recognize that party anymore.
Interested to see if it translates in November.
Yeah, don't get your hopes up. I'm sure almost all the posters on that Twitter page are conservatives trying to make something happen. If some well-known libs with track records start joining in, I might start taking it seriously.
Don the Baptist - I like the name, but doubt that Cathy Griffin is our age's Salome.
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