Posted on 01/10/2016 3:21:33 PM PST by cotton1706
The Republican Party is facing a historic split over its fundamental principles and identity, as its once powerful establishment grapples with an eruption of class tensions, ethnic resentments and mistrust among working-class conservatives who are demanding a presidential nominee who represents their interests.
At family dinners and New Year's parties, in conference calls and at private lunches, longtime Republicans are expressing a growing fear that the coming election could be shattering for the party, or reshape it in ways that leave it unrecognizable.
While warring party factions usually reconcile after brutal nomination fights, this race feels different, according to interviews with more than 50 Republican leaders, activists, donors and voters, from both elite circles and the grass roots.
Never have so many voters been attracted to Republican candidates like Donald J. Trump and Senator Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who are challenging core party beliefs on the economy and national security and new goals like winning over Hispanics through immigration reform. Rank-and-file conservatives, after decades of deferring to party elites, are trying to stage what is effectively a people's coup by selecting a standard-bearer who is not the preferred candidate of wealthy donors and elected officials.
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Whig leader: “These anti-slavery extremists are ruining the Party!”
Isn’t the Tea Party pretty much dead since June?
We just might break the stranglehold that The Cheap Labor Express has had on the party for decades
The Tea party has been pronounced dead many times and it isn’t yet
...as its once powerful establishment...
AMEN!
IN YOUR FACE GOPe, you don't represent us anymore!
Exceptionally well played. :-)
LOL! Well done. Linda might get more of the attention she seeks as a transgender. Talking to McCain ain’t cuttin’ it for dear senator.
made that point to a GOPe stalwart and his response was that ‘these issues are nothing like slavery’.
Made me wonder what the Whigs said slavery was ‘nothing like’.
The “people’s coup” - I LIKE IT! It’s about time!
Donald J. Trump and Senator Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who are challenging core party beliefs....”
What core beliefs are those, exactly? Doing what Democrats want in order to ensure invites to the god parties? Not making waves to make sure the media doesn’t call them names?
From where I sit, those are the current Republican party core beliefs.
[Isn’t the Tea Party pretty much dead since June?]
The tea party has never been a ‘party’, some have erroneously claimed to be leaders but what it is, is a very fed up grassroots movement that has found a real fearless leader to resurrect our country.
My post on Twitter last week:
In my 76 yrs I haven’t seen anything like the Trump Movement, more like a coup on the MSM, GOPe, & socialism & a beautiful thing to watch.
Sounds just like leftist elites. It’s almost like they support the same things...
So true. I was Tea Party from the first rally. As were and are so many others. The GOPe hates it because there is no roster of members for them to attack and target.
The pendulum has finally swung I hope.
this tea partier is now a trumpster! :)
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