South Carolina Republicans "Kick Out" Tom Rice!

They were all good until Tom Rice impeached Donald J. Trump.

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The Republicans are going to get a wake up call in 2022 if they don't pull their heads out their asses. They better get use to the new norms.

Former president Donald J. Trump still has a hold on the Republican Party and it could be a huge problem going into the Biden presidency. President Joe Biden and his team are working to prevent the mistakes that former president Barack Obama made when Republicans were being well you know.... Republicans.

It appears that the loyalty to Trump and white nationalism continues to burden the Republican Party. A party that is pretty damn clueless about "radicalism" and the definition of patriotism.

Since the U.S. Capitol chaos, Trump was impeached for the second time and he was kicked off social media after continuously lying about the results of the presidential election.

Biden continues to deal with the elements of extremism within the Republican Party and some in the Democratic Party. 

The Democrats have a slim majority in the House and Senate. With the White House is Biden's responsibility, he inherits a mess.

Of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, three of them are facing heavy backlash from Trump and his base of extremists.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went out of his district to Wyoming to call upon Republicans to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). She was the high ranking Republican who joined nine others to impeach the 45th President of the United States for inciting an insurrection.

Now it appears that Republicans are furious with those who turned on Trump.

Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) became the latest Republican lawmaker to face the ire of Trump and his state's party.

After the vote, a letter and potential resolution at the grassroots level started forming in the South Carolina 7th Congressional District, the SCGOP said.

"We made our disappointment clear the night of the impeachment vote. Trying to impeach a president, with a week left in his term, is never legitimate and is nothing more than a political kick on the way out the door," said SCGOP Chairman Drew McKissick.

Today the SCGOP Executive Committee voted to formally censure Congressman Rice for his impeachment vote. See below for SCGOP Chairman @DrewMcKissick's full statement: pic.twitter.com/lNzDW80ljl

— South Carolina Republican Party (@SCGOP) January 30, 2021

"Congressman Rice's vote unfortunately played right into the Democrats' game, and the people in his district, and ultimately our State Executive Committee, wanted him to know they wholeheartedly disagree with his decision."

Since the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rice said he's received backlash, oftentimes from people he said he doesn't even represent, about his decision to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump.

“I am not going to stand by and watch any man trample on our Constitution. I take an oath. I will defend the Constitution. I don’t take an oath to Donald Trump. I don’t take an oath to the Republican Party. I take an oath to defend our Constitution and that’s what I will do," said Rice.

At times, Rice said he thought he might lose his political career. Recently, he was appointed to what’s called the Problem Solvers Caucus which is a bi-partisan group made up of 28 Democrats and 28 Republicans. He was voted in by other members of Congress. Ever since then, Rice said he’s moving forward and focusing on his wife, sons, and the people he serves.

State party-level censures aren’t common in South Carolina. The GOP in 2009 issued one to then-Gov. Mark Sanford after he fled the state for five days to visit a lover in Argentina. In 2009 and 2010, several county-level Republican parties censured U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for his willingness to work on bipartisan deals, with one county deriding Graham’s “condescending attitude” to the party’s grassroots organizers.

Tom Rice may face a primary challenge. 

The censure is a symbolic expression of disapproval that some warn could have electoral consequences for Rice, who has represented the 7th District since its creation in 2012. Long a reliable backer of Trump's policies, Rice campaigned with the president and, according to FiveThirtyEight, voted 94% of the time in favor of Trump-backed legislation — the highest percentage among South Carolina’s current delegation.

Rep. Tom Rice released a statement in response to the censure:

"I have been a strong and loyal supporter of the South Carolina Republican Party for more than a decade. I have stood with them, campaigned with them, provided their candidates resources, and been in their corner through thick and thin. Since being elected to Congress, I’ve contributed more than $2 million to our national Party to help Republican candidates for Congress.In Washington, I fought together with President Trump to cut taxes on small businesses, invest in new infrastructure, adopt an America First Trade policy, build our border wall, stop new restrictions on guns, and pass the historic 2018 Farm Bill. Together, and because of President Trump’s leadership, America has seen historic economic growth and we have experienced countless other historic achievements. To accuse me of not supporting President Trump is to ignore my 94% pro-Trump voting record.My vote to impeach President Trump was no reflection on his policies, his effectiveness, his accomplishments, nor my conservative values and voting record. It was a vote to honor my oath of office. That oath was not to Chairman McKissick, nor to the S.C. Republican Party, nor to President Trump. That oath, sworn to on the Bible, was to protect and defend our Constitution.I personally witnessed an insurrection in the Capitol on Jan. 6. I saw the rioters who were demanding to hang Vice President Pence. I heard the gunshots and smelled the tear gas. I was on Capitol Hill when the Capitol Police were overrun and Officer Sicknick gave his life, at the hands of this mob, to honor the oath he took to defend our Constitution. I saw, as we all did, the President’s lack of leadership in not stopping the mob, his callous actions saying Mike Pence had no courage, and his comments, in the middle of riot, that “These are the things that happen when victory is viciously stripped from these great patriots remember this day forever.

To President Trump: those weren’t “patriots” who killed Officer Sicknick. And threatening to hang our Vice President on makeshift gallows on the Capitol lawn is not something that just “happens”. You could have swiftly and forcefully intervened to stop the deadly siege on the United States Capitol and you did not.

To my friends in the S.C. Republican Party: I will not stand idly by, and ignore the oath I took before God, when the evidence is so clear. President Trump bears much of the responsibility for that attack. I cannot ignore this blatant violation of our constitution, regardless of whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat, or regardless of his name being Donald Trump. It seems my friends at the South Carolina Republican Party have fogotten their very own creed which states, “I will never cower before any master, save my God.

I was provided no notice of the meeting today. To Chairman McKissick and numerous other members of your State Executive Committee, had you returned my call, I would have told you that I have no ill-will towards the S.C. Republican Party and will continue to advance our shared values, to create opportunity for all."

This is how the Republican Party operates. If you ain't kissing Trump's ass, they'll throw you out to the fishes. That's why it's difficult for Republicans to get it through their squash brains that the party is too extreme and it's going to hurt their brand.

Now, I've said it back when Barack Obama won his elections and I seen the Republican Party magically return back to the majority and demonize the 44th President of the United States in his final years.

I am so tired of the Republican Party believing they are the rightful owners of liberty, patriotism and freedom.

The far-right is leaning towards fascism. It's a damn shame though, it was once the party of limited government, prosperity and conservatism.

Not anymore. It's the party of white nationalism with a handful of tokens to blind to see that the Republican Party looks at them as racial instruments they can dispose of at any given time.