Get Out the Popcorn: The Arizona Republican Civil War is Intensifying

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This has been festering since the November 3, 2020 elections and is starting to boil.

On one side you have law and order Republicans that were willing to humor Trumpist attempts to use the legal process to prove there was widespread fraud in the elections.

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When those assertions proved baseless after a series of court hearings in Arizona (and across the country where Trump is doing worse than the New York Jets right now losing over 30 judicial rulings,) these law and order Republicans (Doug Ducey, Mark Brnovich, Rusty Bowers, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for example) accepted the election results and helped to certify them.

On the other side, there is the Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disinfowars-QAnon-Cultists like Kelli Ward, Kelly Townsend,  Mark Finchem, Paul Gosar, and Andy Biggs who do not subscribe to reality, have advanced bogus electoral fraud claims, and have championed the idea of disregarding the Biden Arizona victory and having the Arizona State Legislature appoint an alternate set of Trump Electors.

Ward has already told Ducey in a tweet to shut the hell up.

Ducey, at his Wednesday Press Conference on COVID 19, returned the sentiment toward the State Republican Party Chair.

The volatile situation between both camps has intensified over the weekend with Ducey allies Kirk Adams and Daniel Scarpinato engaging in a Twitter war with Kelly Townsend and Andy Biggs.

That of course prompted a response from fellow reactionary soul mate Paul Gosar who (wait for it) tweeted:

This civil war between the Conservative Republicans and the mentally challenged wing of the former Party of Lincoln is a potentially great political development for the Arizona Democrats where, as EJ Montini pointed out in his December 5, 2020 column:

“When the dust clears we’ll find out if the state GOP is a political party or a cult.”

If the cultists prevail and nominate candidates like Kelli Ward and Daniel McCarthy for Governor and Senate in 2022, Democrats should have an advantage going into that election cycle.

Get out the Popcorn.

It is going to be an intense ride for the next couple of years.

 

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11 thoughts on “Get Out the Popcorn: The Arizona Republican Civil War is Intensifying”

  2. Typical name calling liberal. Try watching Mark Levin’s show from tonight so you can see the fraud and improbability that has bee foisted on the American public.
    Also would be a good idea to build a wall between AZ and CA . We’d all be better off.

    • There is no widespread fraud. In case you have not noticed, court after court in this country has thrown out case after case because the Trumpists have not been able to prove any of their fraudulent allegations.

  3. You can sign a recall petition at the weekly rallies held at the Capitol. There is a rally tomorrow-Monday at 3pm.

    • leggman76, I clicked on your profile to see your larger picture and it appears to me that you are overweight yourself. The other possibility is that you are from Mississippi where all the white people have fat necks for some reason.

      Anyhow, glass houses, stones, etc…

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