"I put my heart and soul into the Democratic Party and just came to the conclusion that I can't be active anymore," Mark Haugen said. "We just needed to part our ways and go in different directions."
"Trump is not just 'being Trump.' He's not entertaining. He's redefining what constitutes mainstream politicking. He is normalizing violence. How can North Dakota's Republicans look the other way?"
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors," Plato warned. He could have been talking about North Dakota today.
The NDGOP's District 2 chapter has chosen Jerol Gohrick, the founder of an extremist group called the Sons of Liberty, who threatened Grand Forks officials last year, as its new chairman.
On Nov. 29, three now-former board members of the Yankton GOP created their own political action committee. Days later, they used their waning power in the party to give it $12,000 in county funds.
"Republicans, increasingly, are aiming their legislative efforts at people who just want to live in a manner consistent with their conscience and who they are as individuals."
At the South Dakota Republican Party's annual meeting of the State Central Committee, delegates face a choice on who gets a say at party conventions, and who will lead the party into the future.
Data from this month's midterm election vote show the delegates showing up for the North Dakota Republican Party's candidate selection process are significantly out of touch with what North Dakota voters want from those candidates.
"It's not enough for Trump to go. Trumpism, which is to say the bombastic, hateful, egotistical, divisive, and ultimately self-defeating approach to politics Trump has popularized, and that many Republicans have internalized, must go with it."
I'd like to think that there was a time, not so long ago, when political candidates and activists who talked casually about Jewish media conspiracies, and flippantly used slurs, would have resigned in shame when caught, or would at the very least be ostracized by their party. But that's not happening anymore"."
Becker is a very modern sort of politician. One who has no compunctions about trafficking in even egregious falsehoods if he thinks it'll help him find an edge in his quest for status and power. He relies on the assumption that voters are stupid, and that their often understandable frustrations with politics can be leveraged into the sort of credulity that's needed to believe these whoppers.
Republican Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak joins this episode of Plain Talk for a conversation that kicks off a series of debates between North Dakota's statewide candidates. Fedorchak's Democratic-NPL challenger, Melanie Moniz, declined to participate.
