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The Republican Party Has a Split-Personality Problem
The New York Times ^ | July 20, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET | David French

Posted on 07/20/2024 12:55:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I believe we heard this before...and it was a concern that may have been legitimate in 2016. We have since had a Trump administration...and he handled it well.


41 posted on 07/20/2024 2:37:16 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

06/01/2016

Unlike Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, David French is not a household name.
But there is no doubt about where the staff writer for National Review, whose name is being floated this week by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol as a white-knight independent presidential challenger, stands on a host of issues central to the heart of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
An Iraq War veteran, constitutional lawyer and staunch opponent to Trump as the GOP nominee, French is on the record with a decade’s worth of conservative, at times provocative, essays ranging from a recap of the latest “Game of Thrones” saga tostates’ fight against the White House’ transgender bathroom guidance to the death of Prince to making the case for a third-party challenger to Trump. And that was just in the past two months.


42 posted on 07/20/2024 2:48:19 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“ They want disruptive change, and if violence is necessary, so be it.”

These people overlook actual violent political rhetoric and action by the left, blm, Antifa etc…

Riots, arson, murders, blockades.

Doesn’t even register with them despite happening in real life.


43 posted on 07/20/2024 3:05:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s always been leftard commie progressives vs moderate to liberal democrats within the dimwit party.

And conservatives vs. the moderate pubs, elRINOs and neocons is the pub party.

More or less.


44 posted on 07/20/2024 3:13:10 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Reading soy boy David French lecture us about what Republicans should be like is annoying.


45 posted on 07/20/2024 3:48:16 PM PDT by DMD13
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To: Bookshelf
whose name is being floated this week by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol

Which cesspool is Bill Kristol floating the name of this Dreckspass in?

46 posted on 07/20/2024 4:05:36 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

And of course Trump isn’t a blank slate. We’ve already seen how he governs as president.

Trump’s first term didn’t demonstrate the radicalism of Trump. It demonstrated the radicalism of the Democrat party with their spying operations and Russia Russia Russia megahoax.

I’d like to see David French prove his point about Trump’s unpredictable emotion-driven worst case policies by citing one such policy from Trump’s first term. He probably couldn’t name a single one of substance.


47 posted on 07/20/2024 4:08:12 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isn’t it expected for a major political party in a country with the population of the US to encompass different groups each with different priorities?


48 posted on 07/20/2024 4:11:00 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

David French is a POS.


49 posted on 07/20/2024 5:36:32 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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"As we have all learned, Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters have become deeply radicalized, convinced that the nation is on the verge of extinction, in need of revolution."

Huh? It's the LEFT who is saying that a Trump presidency will be the "end of democracy". It is the left that has been condemning our system and calling for destroying and replacing it for more than 50 years! David French is either a moron, a psychopath, or a liar.
50 posted on 07/20/2024 5:40:34 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Irony isn’t s that as I read the article I am listening to Frank Senator I did it my way


51 posted on 07/20/2024 5:44:18 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The people who would make Trump president want different things from him, and those differences present political perils

What crap. This is not unique to Trump. Every single constituency/voting bloc that votes for any presidential candidate wants different things from the candidate. Ultimately, some end up more satisfied, some not.

52 posted on 07/20/2024 5:50:54 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

All they have is straw men about imaginary conservative boogeymen.


53 posted on 07/20/2024 6:04:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Kenny Bania
The people who would make Trump president want different things from him, and those differences present political perils

I believe the word for this is...

...give me a second, I'll come up with it...

..."politics."

54 posted on 07/20/2024 6:30:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

David French.
One of the original infiltrators.
No one cares about David French anymore.


55 posted on 07/22/2024 7:08:02 AM PDT by Zathras
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