Three state senators who were defeated in Tuesday’s primary told NBC News they don’t feel differently about the redistricting vote that drew Trump’s ire.

After a group of Indiana Republican legislators rejected their party’s redistricting plan last year, they faced public ridicule from Donald Trump and millions of dollars in negative attack ads, with several ultimately losing their jobs Tuesday.

But three of those state senators told NBC News on Wednesday that they have no second thoughts about the vote that put them in the spotlight and led to their defeats at the hands of Trump-backed challengers.

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    Well how about we just call it, Trump’s MAGA party. I just want them to wear his near like an albatross around their neck. As for the rest. Sounds a bit extreme, perhaps a little to facist for my likeing. Anyone can and should be able to form a new political party. What we really want is at least three major parties.

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      I’ve been saying for a long time that we need to OFFICIALLY start calling them the MAGA Party, and refuse to call them Republicans. The Republican Party is dead, that was just the larval stage, before they morphed into their final form - MAGA.

      That way, when we reach the endgame, we can ban MAGA as the ongoing National Security Threat that they are, and it will take the Republican Party with it. Then we can prohibit anyone who supported the Insurrection from holding office under 14A/S3, and most Conservatives will find themselves CONSTITUTIONALLY ineligible to hold office.

      Conservatives will have to rebuild a new party from the ground up, and since their precious incarnation devolved into treason, racism, pedophilia, and open corruption, they will only be allowed to exist with Federal regulation and supervision.

      Of course, they’ll scream likes the babies they are, but we are under no obligation to listen to the whines of corrupt traitors and pedophiles. They’ve been calling their opponents the Democrat Party for years, simply because they know the party hates it. I saw a MAGA completely derail a debate with Schmuck Schumer because he called them the Democrat Party in his opening statement, and Schmuck went nuts, and completely focused on that, as the MAGA sat back and smirked. Mission accomplished, he didn’t have to defend treason, and Schmuck looked like a schmuck.

      So now we should unilaterally change the name of their party, especially since we can use it as a strategy to get the entire conservative movement Constitutionally prohibited from office.

      Edit: I wrote this in answer to a comment, only to realize that that comment was in response to a nearly identical post. But I added some new stuff, so I’m leaving it. Sorry about the redundancy.