"Earlier this week, Gary Kendrick, a GOP council member in the red town of El Cajon, on San Diego's eastern outskirts, announced that he was crossing the aisle and joining the Democrats. Kendrick was the longest-serving Republican official in the region's local government. "I've been a Republican for 50 years," he said, in the statement explaining his action. "I just can't stand what the Republican Party has become. I'm formally renouncing the Republican Party.""
"President Donald Trump's authoritarian project is finally running into real headwinds. That doesn't mean that the danger is passing-far from it, as Trump's escalating attacks on the voting process in the runup to the mid-term elections illustrate and as his venomous, racist social media posts testify to. But it does mean that Trump is losing control of the storyline. Even among his own base, there is a growing realization that there is something rotten at the core of his administration."
"Having failed to break the will of Minnesotans despite two months of federal occupation, humiliation rituals, and brutal violence, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday morning that it was ending the Minneapolis surge. It wasn't because the surge had failed, Tom Homan was quick to claim; it was because Minnesota authorities had begun to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Customs and Border Protection."
Gary Kendrick, a GOP council member in El Cajon, renounced the Republican Party after fifty years and joined the Democrats. Several conservatives are leaving the GOP as opposition to President Donald Trump's authoritarian tactics grows. Trump's escalating attacks on voting and racist social media posts continue, but his control of the narrative is slipping. Even parts of his base increasingly recognize failures at the administration's core. After two months of federal occupation, humiliation rituals, and violence in Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security announced an end to the surge. Large protests and community resistance helped force the withdrawal.
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