Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu pinned the GOP’s underperformance in recent elections on former President Donald Trump, saying “the Trump brand just doesn’t work.”
“It’s about the former president more than anything,” Sununu said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’ve had school board members, Republican school board members, that have lost their seat because they felt like they had to constantly answer for being a Trump Republican,” Sununu said.
Trump’s negative influence on elections, Sununu argued, bleeds into local elections at all levels.
“It isn’t just the federal seats. It’s the governorships, the school boards, the congressional seats, all of them, especially in a place like New Hampshire where we can kind of get back and forth. We’re very independent minded. The Trump brand doesn’t work,” Sununu said. “It just doesn’t.”
Being a Trumpist / MAGA head is a warning sign that tells me: I don’t want this person to be in a position of authority and responsibility. In every place where one needs to judge on a persons character, this is an easy and obvious criteria for lack of moral and brains.
Even just being conservatives should raise eyebrows in a sane world. You can’t have conservative platform without racism, sexism, and so on, and attempts always lead down to that road.
That actually depends what is rated “conservative”. In my country, the US Democrats would be considered conservative, and the Republicans would be close to surveillance by the local alphabet soup for extremism.
The moderate wing of the Democratic Party do have some degree of responsibility when it comes to shifting the Overton window to the far-right, so yes, they aren’t to be free from criticism. And the Republican Party being so much worse. And Republicans are conservatives.
In comparison to other conservative parties in the world, the Republicans are so far out right, they would rated “right wing extremist” in about any European country. The Republicans don’t conserve, they want to control.