Four Republican backbencher candidates who failed to qualify for the first 2024 GOP presidential debate this week slammed the Republican National Committee over its rules, with multiple contenders calling them “rigged.”

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    10 months ago

    I made zero statements about restricting peoples’ speech. Merely that humanity should be more intelligent than basic tribalism.

    If a basic competency test offends you, I really do not know what to say…

    No one has mentioned overt political gatekeeping. Just basic competency that we ask of all citizens. If that is too much to ask, then I’m afraid you have no idea what contributes to a competent leader…

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      10 months ago

      To make political parties illegal is an attack on free-speech and the right to peaceful assembly. You would have to directly violate the first amendment in order to ban political parties.

      I hope you are not being literal with your concept of a “competency test.”