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How to Rebuild the Republican Party
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-to-rebuild-the-republican-party/503282/ ^

Posted on 12/02/2016 12:44:06 PM PST by outpostinmass2

Bravo for the forward-looking team at Commentary. Unburdened by illusion that Donald Trump can or will “turn this thing around,” they have proceeded straightaway to the next important conversation: What comes next for America’s battered Republican Party? Noah Rothman writes: “Reunification and a recapitulation of something resembling a national governing coalition must be the foremost priority.” That’s clearly true!

How to do it?

Rothman’s answer is to try to reconstitute conservatism as it used to be, refined by the famous “autopsy” of 2013. The problem is that pro-Trump Republicans may not agree that Trumpism failed. They may not be amenable to a reconciliation based on acknowledging that they, uniquely, were wrong—and that their defeated party opponents were in the right all along.

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Good laugh for a Friday afternoon. This was written a month before the election
1 posted on 12/02/2016 12:44:06 PM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: outpostinmass2

ROFL!!!!!


2 posted on 12/02/2016 12:47:45 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: outpostinmass2

No doubt


3 posted on 12/02/2016 12:48:58 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: outpostinmass2

Thanks! This is hilarious!


4 posted on 12/02/2016 12:49:47 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: outpostinmass2

The Republican Party is going to be fundamentally transformed.
Out with the globalists and cheap labor importers and in with the America and Americans First patriots.

There are many Cheap Labor Express Republicans that need to be weeded out.
Unfortunately, McCain, Hoeven, Murkowsky and Rubio were not removed from office after their betrayal of voting for the Gang of Eight amnesty.
Heller, Corker, Hatch and Flake come up in 2018, time to start planning their replacement.
Graham and Alexander have to wait until 2020.
The House needs a housecleaning as well.


5 posted on 12/02/2016 12:51:35 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

agree


6 posted on 12/02/2016 12:53:03 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: outpostinmass2
Rebuild?

What for?

Let it continue as the DNC docile, gutless lapdog ... the two of them will eventually formalize their ‘association’ and be ONE worthless party.

7 posted on 12/02/2016 12:57:47 PM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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How to rebuild the Republican Party.

Two words.

Donald Trump!

Two more.

November eighth!

That ought to about do it.

Thanks America.

It’s so cute to see folks on the Left and GOPe Right straining to grasp meaning these days.


8 posted on 12/02/2016 1:00:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: outpostinmass2
The problem is that pro-Trump Republicans may not agree that Trumpism failed. They may not be amenable to a reconciliation based on acknowledging that they, uniquely, were wrong—and that their defeated party opponents were in the right all along.

This is too rich! The ONLY way to fix the republican party is to get right with Trump and the people who elected him. Your good old Chamber of Commerce, country club party is dead!

9 posted on 12/02/2016 1:00:11 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: outpostinmass2

So hard to pick between The Atlantic’s or The Huffington Post’s or The Nation’s helpful suggestions for how Republicans should run their party. They all have our best interests at heart.


10 posted on 12/02/2016 1:00:45 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: outpostinmass2

The Democrat party, after Barack Obama, is in its worst electoral shape nationally, at the state level and at the local level since before Roosevelt won in 1932.

The Leftists at the Atlantic are worried about the GOP “being battered”?


11 posted on 12/02/2016 1:03:36 PM PST by MNJohnnie (This revolt is not ending, it is merely beginning.- Pat Caddell)
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How did the Republican party survive the Northern Wig takeover in 1860?
12 posted on 12/02/2016 1:04:20 PM PST by Little Bill (o)
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To: outpostinmass2

We just rebuilt it with Trump election! GOPe BEWARE the Voter!-)


13 posted on 12/02/2016 1:10:47 PM PST by Harpotoo
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It's Donald Trump's party now. I'm no longer worried like I was before the election. It's the Democrats that need to rebuild and so far, they are doing the same stupid things with the same stupid people (good!).

But the Republican party WILL change. Come 2020, we won't recognize the Republican Party that we know today.

14 posted on 12/02/2016 1:13:06 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: outpostinmass2

Thanks, I can put this right next to my President Hillary Clinton Newsweek issue.


15 posted on 12/02/2016 1:13:54 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: outpostinmass2

Which turd floating in the National Review punchbowl wrote this?


16 posted on 12/02/2016 1:18:35 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: outpostinmass2

“How to Rebuild the Republican Party”

Why?


17 posted on 12/02/2016 1:22:30 PM PST by MeganC (Ik ben Geert Wilders!)
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To: outpostinmass2

“How to Rebuild the Buggy Whip Industry”.


18 posted on 12/02/2016 1:27:53 PM PST by TADSLOS (God Bless President-Elect Trump! God Bless the United States of America!)
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19 posted on 12/02/2016 1:34:49 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: TADSLOS

Posted as an aid to your idea.
The GOP might need some of these


20 posted on 12/02/2016 1:37:21 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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