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Opinion: In Arizona, a MAGA victory party takes a sour turn
Opinion | In Arizona, a MAGA victory party takes a sour turn
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
Updated November 9, 2022 at 12:59 a.m. EST | Published November 9, 2022 at 12:03 a.m. EST
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Has there ever been a more rage-filled celebration? ... Arizona Republicans up and down the ballot gathered at a resort here for a unified election night “party.” But things didn’t go as planned.
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For the Arizona GOP’s “Election Night Watch Party,” Lake, GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters and other Republicans arranged a joint celebration at the Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch in this upscale suburb.
After a campaign against supposed Democratic “elites,” Republican elites celebrated in style. A procession of luxury cars — BMW, Lexus, Mercedes, Tesla, even a Rolls-Royce — dotted the valet line in the conference resort’s manicured driveway, lined with palm trees. VIPs who paid $500 a head were whisked off to a private reception, and higher rollers who shelled out $1,000 for the “private experience package” to another.
Hoi polloi, for $20 a ticket, squeezed into the back of the ballroom near the media or watched on jumbo screens in two courtyards (“Paradise Park Lawn”) strung with bistro lights. They could partake of the included pizza bar and a crudite display worthy of Mehmet Oz, but the 12-year-old Glenlivet at the cash bar was $12 a shot. A man wearing a brick-patterned novelty suit explained his costume to me: “It’s a border wall!”
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Opinion by Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. He sketches the foolish, the fallacious and the felonious in politics. His new book is “The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crackup of the Republican Party” (Doubleday). Twitter https://twitter.com/Milbank
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
Updated November 9, 2022 at 12:59 a.m. EST | Published November 9, 2022 at 12:03 a.m. EST
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Has there ever been a more rage-filled celebration? ... Arizona Republicans up and down the ballot gathered at a resort here for a unified election night “party.” But things didn’t go as planned.
{snip}
For the Arizona GOP’s “Election Night Watch Party,” Lake, GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters and other Republicans arranged a joint celebration at the Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch in this upscale suburb.
After a campaign against supposed Democratic “elites,” Republican elites celebrated in style. A procession of luxury cars — BMW, Lexus, Mercedes, Tesla, even a Rolls-Royce — dotted the valet line in the conference resort’s manicured driveway, lined with palm trees. VIPs who paid $500 a head were whisked off to a private reception, and higher rollers who shelled out $1,000 for the “private experience package” to another.
Hoi polloi, for $20 a ticket, squeezed into the back of the ballroom near the media or watched on jumbo screens in two courtyards (“Paradise Park Lawn”) strung with bistro lights. They could partake of the included pizza bar and a crudite display worthy of Mehmet Oz, but the 12-year-old Glenlivet at the cash bar was $12 a shot. A man wearing a brick-patterned novelty suit explained his costume to me: “It’s a border wall!”
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Opinion by Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. He sketches the foolish, the fallacious and the felonious in politics. His new book is “The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crackup of the Republican Party” (Doubleday). Twitter https://twitter.com/Milbank
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about when it started to turn "sour for the Gaslit Elite magats. 
& AZ SHITHEADS need to have the Karma BACKLASH ASAP! 