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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city.

While the Dallas mayoral office is nonpartisan, Johnson previously served as a Democrat in the Texas legislature. He slammed his former party in an op-ed for Wall Street Journal published Friday, blaming Democratic policies for “exacerbated crime and homelessness.”

“The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism,” Johnson wrote. “Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”

He added: “In other words, American cities need Republicans—and Republicans need American cities.”

Johnson’s announcement makes him the only Republican among the mayors of the 10 most populous cities in the US.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago

Why are we not running as fake conservatives in every race? Conservative voters are profoundly unintelligent and are bound to occassionally vote for us.

We could make running as a republicant a trendy hobby. We could "take the challenge" to see who can can fuck the GOP the hardest.

[-] dezmd@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Conservatives are already running as fake conservatives.

[-] flossdaily@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Honestly it's probably not happening because spending that much time with that moronic cult would be torture.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

It only works the other way around because the money supports the right wing. Nobody’s gonna fund a secret lefty on the republican ticket.

[-] tastysnacks@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago

There’s a standard playbook. Just say the same things as Don or Ron. Talk about woke pineapple slices or something and you’re in. Just commit. Like Chris Rock said, Republicans don’t let “sense” fuck up their argument.

[-] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Please tell me more about these woke pineapple slices.

[-] Alchemy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

When you the eat the pineapple, it also eats you.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I heard it was slang for stretched out Asian buttholes.

[-] PickTheStick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've thought about doing it. For a while, I was in an area so 'red' that getting even 10% D votes was horrifying to the population. Trust me, you cannot keep up with the outrage porn and virtue-signaling required. Any critical thought will have you being looked at like an alien that just popped out of the moon.

Plus, remember that the parties are private organizations. The people at 'the top' of those organizations, in the local and the state and the federal sense, are the people who decide who will be the next candidate. Unless you have Trump's money, 'charisma,' and luck (read, being able to get free press from media because they're all, gasp, horrified by what you said), you can't break into politics as a R candidate without already knowing / rubbing elbows with those people.

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