'True MAGA Supporters' Spark Raft of County Republican Party Resignations
By: Jacob Jarvis (MSN)
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Several high-ranking county GOP officials have resigned after pressure from a group of outspoken critics questioning their leadership.
Greenville County Republican Party's Chairman Jennifer Black, First Vice Chairman Stacy Shea and Executive Committeeman Randy Page released a statement announcing their departures on Thursday.
This came after a group called mySCGOP, a South Carolina group of Republicans backing a "MAGA agenda," alongside members of the Greenville Tea Party, questioned the legitimacy of the convention that led to their leadership. MAGA stands for Make America Great Again, a phrase linked with former President Donald Trump.
In joint remarks, shared via the Fresh Leadership for Greenville GOP page, on Facebook, those who resigned said: "While we have longed for the opportunity to jointly develop strategies, connect, and do the real work, we have been constantly railroaded the entire time, directly caused by leadership from MYSCGOP and the Greenville Tea Party. It has been made exponentially clear to us by leadership within these entities that their focus will solely be on continued in-fighting, discord, and placing continual barriers to any attempts at effective work on our behalf, rather than coming together jointly to be effective in the political landscape against our real opponents.
"Continual lawsuits, threats of lawsuits, intimidation, threats, bullying, disenfranchisement, and character assassination, as promised by the leadership of mySCGOP.com and the Greenville Tea Party do not advance anything positive, much less promote any level of political discourse or change. The tone of the leadership of these entities is clearly destructive to the tenets of the Republican Party, and we will not be a part of it."
The group said they had determined "our energy is best used elsewhere to positively engage legislative issues that affect us, our families, and the citizens of our great state."
"We remain in the fight for conservative ideals; however, we resign effective immediately from our county-wide posts," the statement concluded.
MySCGOP has called on those aligned with its values to push to "take our party back" and "drain the swamp in our South Carolina Republican Party."
The Post and Courier reported that Greenville Tea Party leader Pressley Stutts said he was convinced the county GOP election was mired by cheating.
At the county party's last meeting, Stutts, who helped to set up MySCGOP, called on the leadership to resign. Greenville Online reported that the meeting earlier this week was "heated."
"We are following the advice of President Trump, who encouraged all of the MAGA supporters to go out, get involved and take over the parties with their true MAGA supporters," Stutts said, in comments reported by The Post and Courier. "That's what we did."
South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick has criticized the actions of MySCGOP.
"They have essentially preyed on Trump supporters, telling them the county and state party organizations didn't support President Trump, which is a total lie," he said in an interview with The Post and Courier.
"These are people who want to turn the local party organization into their own personal hobbyhorse, and that is not our mission."
Newsweek has contacted the Greenville Republican Party, the South Carolina Republic Party, mySCGOP and the Greenville Tea Party for comment.
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So it sounds like these maga believers are running around threatening and intimidating people in their own party.
Maga seems to be a disease that rots the brain.
Yeah don’t understand what people like those discussed in the article don’t get about extremists. There is no compromise, for them compromise is a sign of weakness and treachery. Their way is the only way, end of story.
It is eating the R party from within. These MAGA Trump sycophants are stupidly diminishing the potency of the R party.
It just amazes me. As soon as someone in the party says something about it they are immediately attacked.
Stupid is as stupid does, right?
trumpster fascists are making noises like they want to progress to the next internecine step. GOPers had every opportunity to drown this bastard child in the political bathtub 6 months ago and chose not to. tough shit.
It's deliberate compaction. Clearly, large numbers are not their goal for the 2022 mid-term election. We must focus on the condensing (into what?) that is occurring in the former GOP party. Will it be potent or impotent?
they think they have enough shovels to dig themselves out of their pending shit storm.
What are these Trump republicans 'growing' right under our noses? Clearly, it is intentional. Is Trumpism creating a figurative 'bullet' aimed squarely at the heart of this democratic-republic? Has the time come for former GOP conservatives, aka, true conservatives, to dissolve the Grand Old Party and start a new party?
Where are the true conservatives? Haven't they experienced and been shamed by their conspiratorial 'family' enough already?! Why does it appear to be no conservative purist voices in our discussions? We are inundated with Trump loyalists and devotees.
Innudated, I tell you by Trump loyalists and devotees.
Conservatism is dead. Murdered by Supply Side Economics and the avarice it spawned.
Your god is false, a grifter, a supplicant of foreign interests.
And for the rational thinkers among us that shows just how far the R party has lost its way. There is a 98% approval for a charlatan who engaged in an irresponsible two-month campaign where he, with zero evidence, lied that he had won the election and worked his naive, sycophantic supporters up into a frenzy. And he continues to refuse to admit defeat even today. He is the worst loser of a presidential campaign in USA history.
98% of CPAC approve of the lying, selfish acts of a malignant narcissist and pathological liar.
I remain amazed at how gullible many conservatives have become and how they cannot comprehend that they continue to diminish the potency of the R party.
Here you are actually bragging that 98% of those polled in a CPAC poll still support the modern poster-boy for narcissism and lying.
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No you won't. Because of you I am locking a thread. Never had to do that before.
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The difference I can see is between having a large tent and purging the tent. It seems that is what the maga people want to do, purge the party of non believers.
At the rate they (Trumpettes) are going the tent will only be a pup tent.
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Doesn’t seem like that is going to happen, it may almost be too late. The forever Trumpers and Trump are firmly in charge, it is obvious with how quick cowards in the GOP are apologize for daring to say anything that contradicts Trump.
Look at Liz Cheney, she was a staunch ally throughout his presidency, but because she refused to indulge in the bullshit about Trump being cheated (he lost legitimately and it wasn’t even close) she was ousted from her leadership position and may likely be primaries out of office.
She even had a more loyal voting record than some that wanted her out.
In a better world old school BIG R Republicans would purge the Grand Old Party of Lincoln of the throwback racist sexist homophobic haters now among them.
Instead, it is entirely the other way around today.
Small r republicans devolved the GOP unto gop...
Are there any decent Republicans left in the gop?
As in the example of Liz Cheney, if there ARE decent Republicans left in the party, they too will be ostracized from the sad story that the GOP has become. I can't wait to see what will happen to them at the midterms, although there are bound to be tons of court cases, investigations and recounts to try to prove voter fraud should they be losers. Should they be losers? Hah! They already are - IMO they've already stupidly committed party suicide.
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