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Wild. The victim’s wife took the seat and held it until 2015. She won a write in campaign by a landslide after the murder. But still… some voted for a murderer instead of a Democrat?
Weird how the article feels the need to say the murderer was a “Democrat turned Republican”. People change their registration? Look at Trump… do we call him “former Democrat”?
I kinda think it's interesting to know about politicians who change their party, since usually they do it because they decide they just care about winning. Trump and McCarthy are both prime examples.
Not really, no. The idea that Trump changed his party to prey on dumb republicans is funny but it’s not based in reality. If you show me 1 candidate who changed parties just to win (Lieberman maybe, but even that’s a stretch), I can give you 5 who changed for other reasons (including Trump). Not sure what you mean about McCarthy.
It's a certain mentally that sometimes makes that change. Lyndon Larouche made the change and became a conspiracy theorist, as did Jordan Peterson.
It's an interesting path, but sometimes it's expressive of someone who feels betrayed by Western Democratic Liberalism as a whole (aka society). That kind of person is often an outsider, and outsiders can do some strange and sometimes even dangerous things.
Calling him former democrat might help to stop his reelection
Whose reelection? The former democrat Donald Trump, who was determined by a judge to have committed rape and who cheated on his wife with a porn star?
it looks like he didn't just change his registration but actually held office as a Democrat in the past