Justin Amash: Our politics is in a partisan death spiral. That’s why I’m leaving the GOP.

By artappraiser on Thu, 07/04/2019 - 5:37pm |

Justin Amash leaves the Republican Party. https://t.co/RbODWvexF6
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 4, 2019

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/justin-amash-our-politics-is-in-a-partisan-death-spiral-thats-why-im-leaving-the-gop/2019/07/04/afbe0480-9e3d-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html?utm_term=.a1ec0cdb3354

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Seamus Hughes, Deputy, @GWUPoE. Fmr Senate Counterterrorism Advisor & USG Intel Policy Officer. @icsr_centre Fellow. Occasional Journalist...:

You: Here’s my 800 word op-ed about the true meaning of the 4th of July based entirely on my political world view.

Me: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) July 4, 2019

You didn’t like this tweet because you really like bbqing but never got around to reading that first line of a treatise against tyranny.
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) July 4, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/04/2019 - 5:42pm

Sahil Kapur on Trump reaction:

“most disloyal” is the key phrase pic.twitter.com/UkcNNF2mkc
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 4, 2019

Justin Amash’s decision to become an independent means there are now zero Republicans in Congress who support impeaching the president.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 4, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/04/2019 - 6:03pm

Kiss of death?

Justin Amash is right. The toxic 2-party system has become an existential threat to the US...& the planet. Nearly 60% of US want to declare independence from 2-party tyranny. Time for #RankedChoiceVoting to bring more voices & choices, & freedom to vote our values, not our fears!
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) July 5, 2019

by artappraiser on Fri, 07/05/2019 - 7:09pm

Axelrod and Costa on Amash leaving the idea of a presidential run open:

.@justinamash has left the party. Does that mean a POTUS race would be as an Indy? As I said yesterday, I think Trump would welcome it more than a primary challenge. It would lower the threshold needed to carry a state, which is meaningful for Trump in swing states. https://t.co/k1zov0GXor
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 7, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/07/2019 - 12:43pm

Justin Amash: Our politics is in a partisan death spiral. That’s why I’m leaving the GOP.

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