Posted on 08/25/2020 7:14:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I suspect that Trump has birthed the Conservative Party.
Good comment. You’re right. It’s the MAGA party, without the confusion of switching names.
The mail in ballot effort is in strong democrat held areas that republicans typically won’t win anyhow. I suspect there will be an emergency stay petition to the SCOTUS halting widespread mail in ballots being strewn about.
I humbly disagree. For purposes of the Electoral College the mail-in vote will be HUGE. I’m a Trump voter in Pennsylvania, but if the Democrats weave their crooked magic with mail ballots in Philly he’s pretty much SCROOOOOOOOOD here.
President Trump is an anomaly just like Reagan and probably the last American President.
Trump is different. With a successful business career built on hustle and risk-taking, Trump calculated his chances and went all in, winning the Presidency and then pushing more in the way of conservative policies and ideas than anyone since Reagan. I expect Trump to be reelected and to have a tremendously successful second term. And the new GOP that he is building will continue his work for years to come.
Actually, I think he has kept it from being ABORTED!
It’s really the “Tea Party” !
The “Tea Party” was this swirling mass of discontent from people who knew we were being “misgoverned” and the nation was collapsing because of it. The “Tea Party’ as was pointed out repeatedly to the MSM had no leader. It truly was a “mass movement” but a conservative patriotic “mass movement”. However since a conservative patriotic “mass movement” it was illegitimate in the eyes of the MSM, the “beautiful people” & the left.(In their minds only they can have “mass movements”!) The thing was the Tea Party had no focus which was both a strength and a weakness. Then Trump came along and was the catalyst that “crystalized” the focus. This is why the “left” still gets it all wrong about Trump and his supporters. In their mind it’s all a cult ! (Because a “Cult of Personality” is such a leftist thing they can’t understand anything else!) It’s not Trump with followers (i.e. , TP’ers -Tea Partyers !) its TP’ers with Trump. Trump is the visible focused part of it.
Excellent observation. Whether or not the name Republican is retained the party has been transfigured, while recovering ideals that had long been abandoned.
Maga has always been there, but it had to share the stage.
Brave man to remind people he wrote that really stupid crap.
Good point!
It’s nice to see these mopes publicly eat crow.
Oh yeah!
And it was BEAUTIFUL.
Well, that’s the only path to power left for conservatives. The RINOs have destroyed the GOP brand, and collectivists like Kasich and Flake have been using the Republican Party to gain office for decades. We might as well turn the tables on the Democrats, and watch them freak out as their sheep who have been trained to vote (D) without thinking start electing Constitutionalists because the letter after their name makes them appear to “care about people like me.”
We can wistfully hope Trump might start his own party, but it would be smarter in the short run to use the collectivists’ own tools against them.
“Clinton embodied nearly everything voters had come to hate about America’s political class: the falsity, the naked hypocrisy, the barely disguised disdain for ordinary people.”
The many murders...why is she being let off the hook for the murders?
Career politicians are responsible for many of our problems. That's why I've pushed for TERM LIMITS for about thirty years now. If they can't stay employed and become wealthy, the self-serving among them will not seek office. We'll get people who want to SERVE rather than RULE.
There are still some RINOs to run off and it is vital that we not allow Establishment types like Nikki Haley to retake the party after Trump’s 2nd term. So far though, Trump has been very successful in reshaping the Republican Party. Lord knows it needed it. It simply was not addressing things that are important to the American people like controlling illegal immigration, not getting involved in unnecessary foreign wars, actually cutting taxes and regulations as well as renegotiating our awful trade deals and fully supporting fracking.
All of these from making energy affordable and domestic,reducing costs via tax cuts and deregulation and redoing our sell out trade deals had the effect of putting Americans back to work - even getting working class Americans their first pay increases in forever.
There’s still more work to be done. We need to cut legal immigration to and make it merit based. We need to radically slash H1bs. We need to complete the wall. We need to appoint more strict constructionist judges - thus far Trump has managed to just about cancel out Obama’s effect on the judiciary, now we need to make actual progress. We also need to bust up the Big Tech monopolies.
Correct. It was well-defined. The media and the parties were reading off the old script: Republicans run to the right during the primaries. Democrats run to the left. Then, they each run to the middle during the election, and you couldn't slide a dime in between what they do when they're in office.
Trump's positions were clear, the writer didn't see it because he didn't believe anyone actually ran on what they intended to do.
The nice thing is, that by Trump refusing to run to the middle, the democrats now have to run on Communism and terrorism as their values.
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