Traitorous MAGA Squad (Sedition Caucus) Plots A ‘Night Of The Long Knives’ Against Fellow Republicans

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The Washington Post recently reported on the Sedition Caucus of the Republican Party that regularly uses violent eliminationist rhetoric towards their political opponents and openly advocates for civil war. House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans:

The defiant far-right [fascist] acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican caucus have embarked on a targeted campaign ahead of the midterm elections to expand their ranks — and extend their power — on Capitol Hill.

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The effort, backed by Trump and guided by House members such as Marjorie “Q” Greene (R-Ga.) and Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), is part of a broader push by followers of the “Make America Great Again” movement [personality cult of Donald Trump] to purge the GOP of those not deemed loyal to the former president and his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden [the Big Lie.]

Historical Parallel: The Night of the Long Knives was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis’ paramilitary organization, known colloquially as “Brownshirts.” Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called Röhm Putsch.

Former Army Green Beret Joe Kent is running for a U.S. House seat in Washington state held by another Republican, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach Trump over his role in the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol.

Kent said he has little interest in fighting with Democrats if he makes it to Congress. Instead, he wants to force Republicans into tough votes, starting with articles of impeachment against President Biden and a full congressional inquiry into the 2020 presidential election, which he says was stolen from Trump.

“A lot of it will be shaming Republicans,” Kent said. “I need to be going after the people in the Republican Party who want to go back to go-along-to-get-along. It’s put up or shut up.”

The goal, organizers of the effort say, is to supersize the MAGA group in the House from its current loose membership of about a half-dozen — and give it the heft that, combined with its close alliance with Trump, would put it in a position to wield significant influence should Republicans win the House majority.

Key to the strategy is to coalesce MAGA-movement support around certain candidates running in Republican primaries in heavily pro-Trump congressional districts where the primary victor is all but assured to win the seat in November. That effort is being bolstered by redistricting, as state lawmakers draw districts even more partisan than the current lines.

Under new maps already finalized in more than a dozen states, Trump would have won 78 districts by more than 15 percentage points. Under 2020 lines in those states, he won 59, according to a Washington Post analysis.

“We should be gaining MAGA seats,” Boris Epshteyn, a [coup plotter at the Willard Hotel], said on a recent episode of the radio show hosted by former Trump strategist [a fellow coup plotter at the Willard Hotel] Stephen K. Bannon. (See, Who was who in Trump’s Willard Hotel “war room”?) “It’s not just about ‘let’s add some Republican seats,’ it’s about ‘let’s add MAGA strongholds.’ ”

Why have the FBI and DOJ not arrested these coup plotters already for their high crimes of sedition, insurrection and treason? They are openly plotting, advocating, and inciting the next seditious insurrection. They are committing crimes in broad daylight without any legal consequences or accountability.

Trump critics warn that a stronger MAGA wing in Congress threatens democracy. Ya think?!

“We’re looking at a nihilistic Mad Max hellscape. It will be all about the show of 2024 to bring Donald Trump back into power. … They will impeach Biden, they will impeach Harris, they will kill everything,” [and every political opponent] said Rick Wilson [retweeted by Joe Trippi], a longtime Republican strategist who is sharply critical of Trump.

Greg Sargent post, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene aren’t fringe. They’re leading indicators. (excerpt):

Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) are often derided as fringe figures, based on their dabblings in QAnon conspiracy-theorizing and Greene’s previous trutherism about everything from Sept. 11 to mass shootings.

But it may prove more accurate to regard them as a vanguard of sorts, as leading indicators of the future direction of a certain kind of right-wing politics that will continue gaining adherents and intensity.

[For] the 2022 House races, Trump has already thrown his support behind more than two dozen Republicans, including five running against Republican incumbents.

Candidates seeking his approval meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., where he peppers them with questions that test their MAGA bona fides. A Trump spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

[T]he emerging candidates — some former collegiate athletes and military veterans, telegenic and mostly White male millennials — have benefited from publicity from Bannon and the fundraising prowess and endorsements of the alliance of Republican House members who have cast themselves in Trump’s image, including Greene, Cawthorn, Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.).

Over the summer, Greene and Gaetz went on the road together, holding “America First” rallies in various states, dishing out applause lines about the election being stolen and Trump running in 2024.

[Cawthorn] has endorsed seven Republicans in 2022 House races — a figure that could effectively double the size of the MAGA squad were they to win. Greene’s and Gaetz’s offices did not respond to questions about how many candidates they have endorsed, but they’ve made clear their intent to scout MAGA candidates. In a Vanity Fair interview published in August, Gaetz called himself and Greene Trump’s “advance team” and said Trump christened their plan to be “out there in the early-primary states keeping the band in tune, if you will.”

[S]ome of the MAGA candidates are openly disdainful of McCarthy. Witt would not say whether he would support McCarthy for speaker but did say that if Trump wanted the job — a theory that was bandied about on far-right sites — he’d “support him 100 percent.” When Hines was in Washington recently, he met with McCarthy. Asked whether that put him at odds with the MAGA squad, Hines responded, “Right now, he’s the leader of a party.”

Marjorie “Q” Greene provided the template for the candidacies now gaining strength. When she won her primary election in a stunning 2020 upset in one of the reddest districts in the country, it was a foregone conclusion that she would win the general election.

To secure the endorsement of high-profile MAGA figures like Cawthorn, Greene or Trump himself, the candidates must push the unfounded claim that the 2020 election was stolen and show complete fealty to the former president [NOT to the Constitution or American democratic principles of government] — “Pro-Trump” features prominently in their social media bios and on their campaign websites.

They talk tough on the danger they say is posed by migrants crossing the southern border [white nationalism], and they rail about prime Fox News topics such as “woke fascism,” critical race theory and transgender laws — appeals also made by Trump.

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Some of those running to join the MAGA caucus are more overtly controversial. Anthony Sabatini, a Republican state representative in Florida who doesn’t know yet what House district he is seeking, calls Democrats whosupport mask mandates “Nazis.” During the racial justice protests in May 2020, he tweeted a photo of an AR-15 as a warning to protesters. In a now-deleted tweet, he shared a link to a QAnon website that came with a warning about violent content.

In an interview, Sabatini cited McCarthy as an example when he said the “elected class of the Republican Party don’t like their own voters; they think they are better than their own voters.”

“The Republican Party is never really moving the issues that matter to the base. If they did, the entire Department of Education would be defunded,” he said. “They are not in step with what their voters want.” [The GQP needs an ignorant populace to whom to sell their shit.]

Sabatini has racked up endorsements from many MAGA members of Congress, including Cawthorn, Gaetz and Greene, and said he’s waiting for a call from Mar-a-Lago saying that Trump will endorse him.

[W]hen Herrera Beutler voted to impeach Trump, Kent said, he felt stirred to protect Trump. He visited Mar-a-Lago in May; Trump told him he needed to see whether Kent could raise money and gain traction. By midsummer, he had Trump’s endorsement. As of the end of September, he had raised more than $1 million.

“I think for the first two years our job is to be the resistance. We’re going to be fighting the Republican Party a lot,” he said. “I think for your average Republican voter, what comes out of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s mouth is what they want to hear. That’s what Trump did; he brought the average American into the room.”

Excuuuse me? Disloyal insurrectionist traitors who are anti-democracy, anti-majoritarian, and authoritarian crypto-fascist members of the personality cult of Donald Trump are not “average Americans.” How dare you compare yourself to “average Americans” who believe in the Constitution and American democracy, and who are loyal patriotic Americans who will resist you fascists at every turn.

Congress should begin by finally expelling their leader, Marjorie “Q” Greene, which should have occurred almost a year ago when she was stripped of her committee assignments, only to free up her time to become a full-time fascist troll. Marjorie Taylor Greene “must be expelled” for “toying with the idea of civil war,” congressman says:

In a tweet this Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., suggested that Democratic voters who move from blue states to red states should be subject to restrictions in order to prevent them turning red states to blue.

Greene was quote-tweeting another Twitter user who said he supports “discriminating” against “transplants like this” through legislation. “They shouldn’t be able to vote for a period, and they should have to pay a tax for their sins.”

In her tweet, Greene said the suggestion is “possible in a National Divorce scenario.”

“After Democrat voters and big donors ruin a state like California, you would think it wise to stop them from doing it to another great state like Florida. Brainwashed people that move from CA and NY really need a cooling off period,” Greene wrote.

According to Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., Greene is “toying with the idea of civil war.”

“The fact that a sitting Member of Congress is toying with the idea of a civil war 8 days before January 6 should alarm everyone. We expelled 14 Members in 1861 for supporting the confederacy,” Bowman tweeted.

“Why does Marjorie Taylor Greene still have her seat? She must be expelled,” he added.

Arizona’s Rep. Ruben Gallego chimed in. Rep. Reuben Gallego Calls Out Marjorie Taylor Greene’s National Divorce As Treason:

Rep. Reuben Gallego (D-AZ) called Marjorie Taylor Greene’s support for “national divorce” what it is. Treason.

Rep. Gallego tweeted in response to Greene:

Greene called for people who move from blue states to red states to lose their voting rights. 

It was important for Rep. Gallego to call out Greene’s BS. There is no such thing as national divorce. Greene was talking about a civil war and committing treason against the United States of America, which, to be fair, wasn’t Rep. Greene’s first time dancing with treason.

There is no other way of saying it. A faction exists within the Republican Party that wants to destroy democracy and the United States of America. They are part of the same crowd that calls the defenders of democracy socialists and communists. At the same time, they plotted to overthrow the government on January 6, 2020, and openly dream about an authoritarian takeover in 2024.

The right-wing authoritarian movement is more than just Donald Trump. People like Rep. Marjorie “Q” Greene are aching for the overthrow of democracy.

Greene can dress it up by calling for national divorce, but what she is really talking about is treason.





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