There's been infighting among Right Winger's in the Miami Dade GOP,
and it's gotten pretty intense, especially with some of the more
traditional old school Jeb Bush, type republicans.
Versus the more extreme elements of the party, particularly the Proud Boys,
who have now infiltrated official political groups.
So, The New York Times reported on this, and
they start with an anecdote, a story about a scuffle that took place recently.
A scuffle broke out by the valet parking station, several men in suits,
and a woman in a cocktail dress tussled over who should and
should not have been allowed at the $250-a-plate dinner.
This was a fundraiser in April, that Ron DeSantis had hosted.
And the next day, a woman who had been escorted out of the dinner renewed
a request for a restraining order against one of the men involved in the dispute,
writing in her court petition, that he was part of a Far Right Wing Extremist Cult.
She was referring to a Proud Boy.
And to be sure, while their National Chapter,
if you wanna call it that, disbanded after January 6th,
they've now focused more on local politics, and they've gotten involved.
And guess what?
Old school Republicans apparently are late to the party,
they haven't realized that Proud Boys do represent what Republican
voters have become, that is the reality, and they just can't accept it.
It reminds me a lot of what Ben Shapiro had to say about his delusions about
the mainstream Republican Party, and how they're not full of conspiracy theorists
who spout white replacement theory, when in reality they absolutely are.
Now, let me get to the rest of the story about a half dozen Proud Boys have
actually secured seats on the Miami Dade Republican Executive Committee.
Their ranks include adherents who face criminal charges for participating in
the capitol attack, Gilbert Fonticoba has been charged with obstructing Congress.
Gabriel Garcia, a former Army captain who says he has left the group,
has been charged with interfering with law enforcement officers during the civil
disorder on January 6, 2021, and the list goes on and on.
The concerted effort by the Proud Boys to join the leadership of the party, and
in some cases, run for local office, has destabilized and
dramatically reshaped the Miami Dade Republican Party that former Governor,
Jeb Bush, and others built into a powerhouse nearly four decades ago.
Transforming it from an archetype of the strait-laced establishment
to an organization roiled by internal conflict
as it wrestles with forces pulling it to the hard right.
And I really do think, and I'll repeat it again,
the forces pulling it to the hard right are honestly more representative of
Republican voters these days than anything else.
>> Yeah, so when we say that Shapiro is wrong about the mainstream Republicans,
and these people are wrong, we back it up with facts.
So the couple of different poles out,
of one has barely a majority, but a majority of Republicans,
so, yes, most republicans, I believe in white replacement theory.
Another poll has it at nearly 70%, seven out of ten Republicans thinking,
Democrats have a plot to bring brown immigrants into the country
to replace native born white Americans.
Cuckoo for cocoa puffs, and outwardly racist,
don't replace good white people with brown people, we don't like that.
Why don't you tell me you're a racist, without telling me you're a racist?
So [LAUGH], I've never thought, hey, what if I get replaced by a Latino as a voter?
Why would I think that, what would be wrong with?
And first of all, I'm not getting replaced,
I don't then move to Guadalajara, okay?
[LAUGH] Nobody's getting replaced, but what if there's more Latino voters?
And right, that's cuz you're a racist.
And so it is the majority of the Republican Party, it's in the polling, and
I give you tons of polls of incredible extreme positions, including, for
example, 40% of Republicans saying, it's time for violence.
40%, saying violence, okay?
So Proud Boys, are often a violent group,
this is a small fringe part of the Republican Party,
we're gonna get a handle on it in Miami- >> They are so delusional.
>> We're gonna kick them out, you're delusional.
>> Yeah. >> You're an old Republican,
that basically was probably almost everybody there is probably
a corporate Republican on that side of the GOP, right?
And they're like, wow, wow, we're gonna do things the old ways, right?
Just good corruption, and get everything to the rich, and the Proud Boys are like,
hey, you know what?
Okay, I get it, we love the rich too, here take my money and give it to them,
I don't care, I'm an idiot, right?
But we like to add violence and racism on top, and they're like, no,
I didn't do that, that's not the Republican.
It is the Republican Party, you're gonna lose, they're gonna win.
>> Yeah, and look, the Proud Boys keep referring to the old Republican
faction as the country club Republicans.
>> And it's true.
>> It is true, and look, let me be clear just in case anyone needs to
hear these caveats, obviously, I am not in favor of the Proud Boys.
I don't like traditional Republicans, and
I certainly dislike the Proud Boy faction of the Republican Party right now.
But what they do is successful in calling out honestly the Elites within their
party, because ordinary Republican voters are not Elites, right?
They don't like the corruption, they don't like the crooks, and so when you have,
even if it's like an extreme element of the Republican party.
When that extreme element is calling out the corruption or calling out the greed,
it is as we saw with Trump, a pretty successful strategy.
Now I wanna go to the last graphic here, because it speaks to the disconnect,
that Jank, was referring to earlier.
Last month,
a faction led by the young Republicans tried to oust some Veteran Party leaders,
including Lilyana Ross, who has been with the party for more than 40 years.
The meeting, she says, are a bunch of fights, people screaming,
said Ms Ross, 79years old, the nice people, the decent people,
the people that are real Republicans are leaving.
And I wanna talk a little bit about what the next step is,
because we've already gotten a little taste of that, because some might think
like, the infighting in the Republican Party is funny, right?
It's amusing and it is, I'll admit that, but
the disaffected traditional Republicans then do what?
You think that they just continue voting for Republicans?
No, they end up moving over to the Democratic Party, that is looking more and
more like the Powerhouse that Jeb Bush, created back in the day.
And so when you look at our political landscape,
you don't see anything that even remotely resembles the left at this point.
You have some progressive sprinkled in Congress, sure,
mostly powerless, oftentimes cowardly, and
refused to fight against the mainstream Democratic Party, which infuriates me.
But putting them aside for a second,
mainstream Democratic Party looks like the Republican Party under George W Bush.
>> So, I have some expertise there, unfortunately, I used to be a Republican,
so, back in the 1980s and 90s, when I was a Republican.
I can tell you with great certainty, that that Republican Party, Yes,
it had awful elements, racist elements,
they were doing the Southern strategy, strong thurman, etcetera, right?
But on economic issues and
many other issues was to the left of the current Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is for today is far more conservative economically than
republicans were in the eighties and nineties.
So the entire political spectrum has moved massively to the right.
So there's a, and by the way, let me correct myself.
I said 52% earlier, I just looked it up.
So the most common poll that people referred to has 47% of republicans
saying that they're in favor of they believe the white replacement theory.
So right around half Other polls, like I said, have it nearly 70%.
So, and and then it's funny that they're called country club Republicans,
because do you remember the original founder of Proud Boys was Gavin Mcginnis.
Gavin Mcginnis left the Proud Boys because they kicked him out of his
Country Club where he lived because he was the founder of the Proud Boys and
they were doing violence.
So Mcguinness disowned his own group to get back into the Country Club, literally.
Okay, so that's hilarious that that that circles come or that's come full circle.
But now, back to there's this interesting silver lining here.
I mean, look to the credit of the right wing, they're trying to
take over their party in a populist way from corporate goons, right?
The problem is they're even bigger groups.
They are because, you know, it might not be in the same pro corporate way,
but it's what, like, what they believe is terrible in many other ways, right?
Like these are hard right wingers, many of whom spout the same garbage you hear
from like, nick fuentes types who want a white ethno state, like it's terrifying.
It's not a good thing.
I know for sure.
But look on the democratic side, they're told not to masturbate the proud boys.
Yeah, the proud boys, like, they take an oath to not masturbate.
I know that sounds like a really weird thing for me to bring up, but
I'm bringing it up for a good reason.
They're like, full of like, pent up rage, and of course it's not a good thing.
It's bad look, if you want people to, you know, that's hilarious.
If you if you want people to do violence,
the first rule you'd passes don't Mess with a 100 1%.
Okay, so, and and that's exactly what we're getting.
So it's taken a super unhealthy direction.
The right wing populism on the left wing.
We also have populism, and our populism says give us higher wages,
give us more healthcare, give us child tax credit,
paid family leave things that other developed nations have that we don't have,
and our Democratic party leadership treats us like we're the proud boys.
Like we're like some goons were like, look at these barbarians wanting universal
healthcare, like all other developed nations and then they we get in,
we don't get into physical fights, We get into shouting matches sometimes, and and
look by the way, when we win it makes a giant difference.
Left wing took over the party in Oregon and
they kicked out kurtz trader awful corporate incumbent democrat, Right?
So if the right wing minus the violence and minus the racism, but for fought,
their country club corporate wing, that would be great.
But they can't help themselves because they're right wingers,
they immediately revert to racism and violence.
And so that's why you have the mess here in where there are no winners.
You shouldn't be rooting for either side of that fight down in Miami.