Another R jumping ship

[Anonymous]

Young guy in VA local politics. R party already has a dirth of young people. They just don't know how to reach anyone outside the old and uneducated white males. I have felt for a while now that the R party has become more extremist in their beliefs. I used to be a R.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2018/01/va-gop-member-resigns-renounces-party-citing-anti-immigrant-sentiment/

I’m totally out." That's what 28-year-old Republican activist Kyle McDaniel, who served on the party’s state central committee for two years, told the Washington Post after President Donald Trump's leaked remarks calling African nations "sh*thole countries" and questioning why we should welcome more Haitian immigrants.

McDaniel has volunteered in Haiti with his church and considered adopting a child from the region with his wife.

A Republican activist and party member from Northern Virginia has resigned from and renounced the GOP, calling President Trump’s vulgar comments on Haiti and African countries “the last straw.”

Kyle McDaniel released a public letter of resignation, addressed to GOP Chairman John Whitbeck and Chair of the 11th District Committee, Paul Prados. In it, he describes what he calls the Republican party’s submission to nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment.

“I held my tongue for too long; hoping things would improve. I was wrong. I can no longer stomach those who support nativism, or their apologists and enablers. After a decade of work in the Republican Party in Northern Virginia, it is time for me to step away,” McDaniel wrote in the letter.

McDaniel joined the Virginia Republican party in 2008, and was elected to serve on the state party’s board of directors in 2016. In his letter, McDaniel describes trying to lead the Republican party back to “compassionate conservatism” and away from nativism with “racial and religious overtones.”

Although he said he sensed that kind of rhetoric gaining power over the party — at first in the form of standing up to illegal immigration — he decided to wait and see how the party would evolve, but said the antagonism toward immigrants just became worse.

“As it’s evolved under the president, it’s not just anti-illegal immigrant — his comments about Haitian refugees completely capture and prove that this is not just about illegal immigration, this is a fundamental desire to not have certain people in our country based on where they happen to have been born, I fundamentally disagree with that assertion, so that’s why I resigned,” McDaniel told WTOP.

And the R old guard would rather he kept the dirty laundry out of the public eye:

The fallout from McDaniel’s departure from the party has been mostly positive, he said, but there have been some who wished he hadn’t gone public with his concerns.

“The couple of exceptions have been on the line of, ‘Well, you should just keep this in the family,’ or ‘You shouldn’t go public with this,’ and I fundamentally disagree because the best solution to these problems is sunshine, it’s not more darkness. Darkness just ferments the rot that’s caught hold in the party,” he said.

[Anonymous]

Rs have become toxic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rs have become toxic.

They don't seem to understand that their brand is poison to young people (and most educated people with an ounce of compassion and class.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rs have become toxic.

They don't seem to understand that their brand is poison to young people (and most educated people with an ounce of compassion and class.)

+2 Republicans are now a toxic brand.

[Anonymous]

Wow, good for him. Hopefully others will follow suit just as publicly.

[Anonymous]

Younger people generally not diggin the R message these days. Good for this guy.

[Anonymous]

dearth

[Anonymous]

So. Much. Winning.

[Anonymous]

Last week I wrote in another thread "You can't denigrate the poor and keep the Catholic vote. Unless he makes people forget about it, he'd lose a quarter of them at least....

So of the 45% that Trump got, probably half vote straight line Republican on the abortion issue alone. That will never change. The other half are persuadable. Lots of Catholic parishes have been supporting Haitian sister churches and other work over the last few decades. it hits home when you have to explain this stuff to school kids doing collections for a catholic orphanage or high schoolers who did a service trip there."

Not sure if this guy is Catholic, but this is exactly what I mean. You can't denigrate the poor and hold onto guys like this. Worked in Haiti for his Church.