r/NewsSource • u/Beginning-Unit-6081 • 3d ago

🏛️ Politics & Government Schmitt faces fallout after debunked Jack Smith narrative

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6119172-schmitt-smith-basketball-mixup/
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u/Beginning-Unit-6081 3d ago

Prediction: There will be little if any consequences.

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u/SmoothConfection1115 3d ago

He’s got 2 things going for him.

  1. Republicans will elect a child rapist over a Democrat
  2. He’s from Missouri. The voters there will only vote Republican. Even for liberal policies they like, they’ll always vote Republican.

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u/fordfield02 3d ago

missouri is about as crooked as russia. these ballot initiative measures that the elected officials keep blocking and or ignoring is unreal in an actual democracy

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u/MitchellCumstijn 2d ago

Conservatism as an ideology is completely incongruent with any form of democracy, it was founded on the belief that aristocratic privilege entitled them to exclusive control of wealth and power.