Posted on 07/15/2022 9:33:13 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Trump has no war on Republicans. They have a war on Trump.
I was going to say welcome to FR, but you wrecked that just a tad.
“Trump has no war on Republicans. They have a war on Trump.
I was going to say welcome to FR, but you wrecked that just a tad.”
Huh... so you claim it’s his enemies that started this? Educate me, I beg you... what did they do to him? I thought it was the LEFT that had gone loony over Trump... not that they haven’t, but you seem to think that Republicans like Liz Cheney attacked Trump in some way... what, by accepting the results of the 2020 election? That was a blow against Trump? I’m just asking because I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing... ??
Yes. His enemies started this, even back in 2015.
I do not know what you think the present-day Republicans to be, but they are as far left as the Democrats; what is quite tragic is that we were warned two-thirds of a century ago.
Hmm. Well, good talking to you...
It's impossible to not forget him.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.So this was going on long before I was born, and before many other Freepers too.
— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA; from “The Naked Communist”, chapter 12
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
Oh, I see what you’re talking about. Yeah, I’m with you on that one. Federal gov’t is WAYYYYY out of control.
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