The Republican Party Sucks

American Greatness ^ | May 14, 2021 | Tal Bachman

[Saint Athanasius]

The brute fact is that the GOP today—unlike its original incarnation—has no rootedness in any specific moral conception of political life. It is an unmoored, mercenary instrument for hire.

By Tal Bachman

Once upon a time, the Republican Party didn’t suck. Actually, there were lots of times it didn’t suck.

It didn’t suck when, at its founding in the late 1850s, it declared slavery an inhumane, barbaric practice, and eventually ended it. It didn’t suck when it ended repressive and predatory Mormon polygamy a few decades later. It didn’t suck when it declared late 19th-century corporate monopolies to be injurious to representative democracy and citizen welfare, and diminished their power.

It didn’t suck under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who presided over a postwar era of peace and prosperity. It didn’t suck when it fought segregationist Democrats to ensure equal application of the law. It didn’t suck when it fought against communism for half a century, and then won.

But starting with the presidency of George H. W. Bush, it really began sucking.

It was Bush Senior who pushed America into the first Persian Gulf War amidst a massive PR snow job involving fake stories about little Kuwaiti kids. It was Bush who framed that war as a glorious opportunity and morally obligatory step toward a “new world order”—by which he meant the eventual dissolution of national borders (including those of the United States) and the rise of one-world-government.

[Pelham]

There’s some discussion of property requirements linked to voting rights in this timeline. I didn’t go through it all. Don’t know if SCOTUS killed the policy but I suspect that they did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20Constitution%20of%20the%20United,6%25%20of%20the%20population).

[JonPreston]

Tal Bachman is a writer, Sirius XM host, and musician best known for his 1999 hit, "She's So High."

I guess that's why he knows so much about sucking.

She's so High

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