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Any time a Republican politician stands up to the rot of today’s GOP, the ghost of Thomas Kuchel smiles.
In the 1960s, when the Red scare remained ascendant and the John Birch Society was taking over the GOP, the California U.S. senator made national headlines as one of the few conservatives willing to criticize them. And not with the winking tut-tuts that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) have offered against Donald Trump and freshman Georgia Rep. Marjorie “Jewish Space Lasers Cause California Wildfires” Taylor Greene.
No, Kuchel thundered with righteous disgust.
He called the right flank of the GOP “a fanatical neo-fascist political cult…driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear that is recklessly determined to control our party or destroy it.”
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Any time a Republican politician stands up to the rot of today s GOP, the ghost of Thomas Kuchel smiles.
In the 1960s, when the red scare remained ascendant and the John Birch Society was taking over the GOP, the California U.S. senator made national headlines as one of the few conservatives willing to criticize them. And not with the winking tut-tuts that Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) or Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) have offered against Donald Trump and freshman Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Jewish Space Lasers Cause California Wildfires Taylor Greene.
OC Republican Leaders Split on Who Should Win Supervisor Race, With Voting to Start Soon
Feb. 1, 2021
From left: Republican county supervisors Don Wagner and Andrew Do are backing Kevin Muldoon for the supervisor s seat, while OC Republican Party Chairman Fred Whitaker and Supervisor Lisa Bartlett are backing John Moorlach. Do also has endorsed Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
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With voters set to start casting ballots in less than two weeks, a major split has emerged among Orange County’s top Republican leaders over who should win a hotly contested, coastal county supervisors’ seat.
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