Posted on 08/18/2024 9:58:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“Many of the same politicians who now publicly embrace Trump privately dread him,” Nikki Haley said in February. “They know what a disaster he’s been and will continue to be for our party. They’re just too afraid to say it out loud. Well, I’m not afraid to say the hard truth out loud. I feel no need to kiss the ring.”
Yet there Haley was at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, kissing the ring. “President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity,” she said. “I’ll start by making one thing perfectly clear: Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period.”
Today’s Republican Party is what political scientists call a “personalist” party: It is built around a person, not an agenda or a coalition. The party is co-chaired by Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. Dissidents like Liz Cheney and Chris Christie and Adam Kinzinger and even former Vice President Mike Pence have been exiled.
The Democratic Party has proved itself anything but a personalist party. Its convention this week will reflect a historic, collective act: the party’s mobilization to persuade its leader, Joe Biden, to step aside.
How have the two parties come to be such perfect opposites, photo negatives of each other? One reason predates Trump. The other reason is Trump.
There is a contradiction at the heart of the Republican Party that does not exist at the heart of the Democratic Party. Democrats are united in their belief that the government can, and should, act on behalf of the public. To be on the party’s far left is to believe the government should do much more. To be among its moderates is to believe it should do somewhat more...
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Trump leads thinkers who are by nature less likely to agree on everything. The left is unified by the emotion induced stupidity of sheeple.
There is nothing ‘democratic’ about the democrat party!!!!
Why? Trump has always been pretty much an old 90s-era NYC liberal.
It's just as well. The country has moved much further to the left over the years to the point that a traditional 80s-era conservative probably couldn't get elected.
“The Democrats turning into a pitiless machine is why we nominated him in 2016.”
That started a long time before Trump.
Anyone who remembers the vicious calumny against Reagan, the hanging chads of 2000, or the High Tech Lynching of Justice Thomas will have no doubt of that.
The king of the Jour-no-list monster of old brings out his fangs.
Your party, birdbrain. And you can keep it.
Oh Ezra.... Look in the mirror. A party around a person and not ideals? Hello Barry Soetero. Uh, JOYOUS JOYFUL JOY JOY Kamala.... what frauds.
Opus?
Never mind what was done to Goldwater.
In 2016, the GOP was exactly the same as the Tory party in the UK. We would have Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as our leaders.
No.
Maybe your time would be better spent on the moderator-protected Trump Family Train threads where only glowing worship of Trump is permitted.
I hope he beats Kamala but I'm not going to champion him as some rock-ribbed conservative that he's never been and doesn't pretend to be.
This country was founded on the distrust of government.
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No government since George Washington was President has been more distrustful than the ones run by Obama and Biden. And now we’re threatened by one that may soon be controlled by a hardcore Communist.
Opus?
File that in headlines you would never expect to see in the New York Times.
We can see through them but the average voter may not.
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I can’t think of any better word that more accurately describes both Democrat voters and people who simply don’t vote than the word STUPID.
First. BS. The Repukelickens love government.
Second, many of us supporters despise government and relish the idea of it being returned to its CONSTITUTIONAL limits.
Klein has been full of it for many years.
Liz and Adam K. and Pence and Christie and even Nookie Haley have exiled themselves.
I mis-spelled a word in my post unintentionally, hopefully the mods will pull it.
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