Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Jan. 26, 2021.Sen. John Thune is criticizing Republican activists and party leaders for engaging in “cancel culture” by rushing to censure GOP senators who found former President Donald Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection.
“There was a strong case made,” Thune said of the Democrats’ impeachment presentation. “People could come to different conclusions. If we’re going to criticize the media and the left for cancel culture, we can’t be doing that ourselves.”and assessing the turbulent GOP politics the former president has left behind.
Thune suggested he would be taking steps to assist candidates “who don’t go off and talk about conspiracies and that sort of thing.” He praised Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, who was censured by the Wyoming GOP for voting to impeach Trump, for doing an “exceptional job on most issues” and said he was ready to jump into primary battles like the one she is sure to face.
Thune himself was hit by Trump last year after he said efforts by some GOP members in the U.S. House to reject Electoral College results would “go down like a shot dog” in the Senate. Trump called Thune a “RINO,” meaning Republican In Name Only, and “Mitch’s boy,” in reference to McConnell. The attacks inspired some Trump loyalists in South Dakota to huddle for a primary challenge to the state’s senior senator, whose candidacy has gone unchallenged in previous elections.
MeetThePress Apparently, cancel culture is valid when used on enemies of Trumpism, but completely unfair, unAmerican, and vile when used on Trump supporters. Got it.
Those senators should respond by quitting GOP party !
Republicans fighting among themselves.
Trump’s GOP is all about lying and lawlessness. If you’re not comfortable with that, you cannot be apart of the GOP making America great.
I wonder if Pence will hang around in the Republican Party?
The police waved the rioters into the Capital. There was no insurrection.
This is not cancel culture, this is getting rid of traitorous RINOS
Republicans created CancelCulture & love it when it benefits them.
But thune still voted for A Murderer
GOP Senators better help Thune fight back, or else Trump will keep moving with one goal, to become President for Life or King. It is obvious that is what he is after, not just overturning one election but killing democracy. He felt the power, he saw the money and he wants more.
Pubs are champion projectors.
Cancel party over country
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The people who are kicking people out of their own party for disagreeing with them (i.e. not hating Liberals enough) are claiming the Democrats are the ones insincere about “unity”. Think about that one for a minute.
Exactly. The only cancel culture happening is Republicans censoring their own colleagues.
Real Republicans need to split away from the Trump dicktator party FoxNews ABC CBSNews AP Reuters SenateGOP
Take’em to your Democrat party!!! There all yours
gop SenJohnThune need to standup & fight for our values. Don't rollover in bed with leftist socialists! DNC & leftist media hate SenTedCruz simply because he is a conservative who successfully defended president DonaldTrump against SpeakerPelosi SHAM impeachment!
Cancel culture is a disease that has plague both Democrats and Republicans!
You got censured not cancelled. When a liberal cancels someone they trash them for a couple weeks and then try to destroy their life.
So instead of fixing the Texas problem, we’re worrying about cancel culture. ✨America✨
Dang, is there any other news besides Trump? How could one man who isn’t the richest man on earth make every ones brain boil? He’s out of office and is still in the news daily. ABC CBSNews FoxNews CNN SpeakerPelosi JoeBiden media EnoughIsEnough
America should find a way to counter and NOT just RECOGNIZE this perceived Cancel Culture of the new QOP and slavish submissive Trumplicans. The answer is also to ensure the lives of those brave few who stood up
Yeah but the GQP is totally immune to calls of hypocrisy
It's pathetic how many GOP Senators are perfectly fine kissing Trump's old wrinkly ass! We need leaders who aren't ass kissers but actual leaders!
I don't even know what that is cancel culture
Enough already
Apparently your not allowed to hv your own opinion in the QOP.
Wonder if Thune realizes or cares that voter suppression and disenfranchisement bills are cancel culture.
Nah, couldn’t be! The right is all about free will and free speech! They would never partake in cancel culture! Not the very cancel culture they attest only comes from the left. When they do it it’s “patriotic canceling.”