party principle

After declaring outright that high levels of voting are bad for Republicans, he persuaded his base that the election system is rotten with fraud, and to view that fiction as a bedrock party principle.

“House Republicans express endless love of local control of local affairs, their central party principle, except when it comes to the District of Columbia,” Norton said in a statement.

Democratic D.C. delegate Eleanor Norton Holmes also decried the measure, saying, “It’s a flagrant abuse of democracy by a member who comes here with a tea party principle that says power should be devolved to the local level.”

“It’s a flagrant abuse of democracy by a member who comes here with a tea party principle that says power should be devolved to the local level,” said Norton, who said Massie was “playing with the lives” of city residents, federal officials and visitors to the city.

Whenever I met any of my erstwhile comrades, they refused to acknowledge my existence in accordance with a party principle that made it imperative that all “traitors be isolated from the working class.”