{"id":54453,"date":"2023-03-21T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54453"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:00:24","slug":"maga-cult-redefines-rino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54453","title":{"rendered":"MAGA cult redefines RINO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Republicans In Name Only has become a sort of four-letter word among the MAGA cabal that comprises a good portion of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s examine the RINO phenomenon for a moment, OK?<\/p>\n<p>Those who now comprise the so-called RINO wing of the party are the same as they always have been. They haven&#8217;t modified their positions &#8212; as near as I can tell &#8212; from when they were first elected to office. Granted, I cannot know the history of every Republican officeholder in the land, but some of the more prominent folks, well, they&#8217;re on my radar.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is now considered to be a RINO. Same with former President George W. Bush. Even Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is forced to wear the RINO label. It&#8217;s been said that the late Ronald Reagan, the once-sainted former president, would now be thought of as RINO.<\/p>\n<p>RINOs, whoever they are, remain as they generally have always been. They just refuse to swill the Kool-Aid offered by adherents to the 45th POTUS &#8230; who, to my way of thinking is the real RINO among us. He campaigned for the presidency in 2016 as some sort of populist, espousing &#8220;America first&#8221; notions on trade and our international alliances.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-POTUS captured the fancy of the evangelical Christian movement, although the thrice-married serial philanderer doesn&#8217;t know the New Testament from a new pair of socks. Let&#8217;s remember, too, that this is the moron who once declared he&#8217;s never sought forgiveness for any of the sins he has committed. Hmm. Didn&#8217;t Jesus Christ instruct Christians to do that very thing?<\/p>\n<p>He is the RINO. Not the many public officials who wear the Republican Party label with pride in where the party formerly stood.<\/p>\n<p>The MAGA cult has changed the description of what it means to be a &#8220;true Republican.&#8221; Those who disbelieve the MAGA rants are cast as outliers. What a shameful turn of events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans In Name Only has become a sort of four-letter word among the MAGA cabal that comprises a good portion of the Republican Party. Let&#8217;s examine the RINO phenomenon for a moment, OK? Those who now comprise the so-called RINO wing of the party are the same as they always have been. They haven&#8217;t modified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MAGA cult redefines RINO<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54455,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453\/revisions\/54455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}