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Trump Has Turned the Democratic Party Into a Pitiless Machine
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 18, 2024, 1:00 a.m. ET | Ezra Klein

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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The modern Republican Party, by contrast, is built upon a loathing of the government. Some of its members want to see the government shrunk and hamstrung.

And the problem is?

1 posted on 08/18/2024 9:58:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s the NYT’s, Jake.


2 posted on 08/18/2024 10:00:45 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Democrats turning into a pitiless machine is why we nominated him in 2016.


3 posted on 08/18/2024 10:03:48 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One problem is that blowhards like Ezra believe his opinions are newsworthy.


4 posted on 08/18/2024 10:04:26 AM PDT by Kudsman (Stop the steal 24: Vote early)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s still the cult of Obama, why does Ezra Klein think he can slip that fact past his readers? oh , yeah, they know they can depend on the stupidity of their voters.


5 posted on 08/18/2024 10:05:01 AM PDT by sopo
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“Trump Has Turned the Democratic Party Into a Pitiless Machine”

Hell, for a party that supports abortion up to (and after sometimes)the moment of birth I believe that party was there years ago,


6 posted on 08/18/2024 10:05:41 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Its convention this week will reflect a historic, collective act:”

Why yes, the biggest riots of modern times.


7 posted on 08/18/2024 10:08:16 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This country was founded on the distrust of government.


8 posted on 08/18/2024 10:09:10 AM PDT by nwrep
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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.

This is ridiculous. Trump is basically 90s-era Bill Clinton with the occasional mean tweet.

9 posted on 08/18/2024 10:10:50 AM PDT by Drew68
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What they want is Bush, McCain, Romney.

10 posted on 08/18/2024 10:11:11 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Democrat party IS the pit!!!


11 posted on 08/18/2024 10:12:20 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Today’s Republican Party is what political scientists call a “personalist” party...

I guess NYT never heard of Obama...

12 posted on 08/18/2024 10:12:44 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wish the NYTs could tell us what Trump needs to do to beat the unstoppable team of kamala/walz666?


13 posted on 08/18/2024 10:13:56 AM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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To: Drew68

Opus?


14 posted on 08/18/2024 10:15:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sure, Ezra. We haven’t forgotten your Journo-List or your Cabal-List. All those little mocking birds are still squawking the same tune, aren’t they?


15 posted on 08/18/2024 10:15:56 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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"The modern Republican Party, by contrast, is built upon a loathing of the government. Some of its members want to see the government shrunk and hamstrung.

And the problem is?"

Yep, limited government, the underlying premise of the Constitution of the United States, that made this nation the greatest in history - a concept reviled by the nimrods who shuffle about the halls, and bounce off the walls, of the New York Slimes building.

16 posted on 08/18/2024 10:16:41 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Faux intellectual gobblety gook.

Liberals read this stuff while having sex.


17 posted on 08/18/2024 10:21:44 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.

The Democrats are running Big Brother a campaign of disrespect for the voters.

They nullified their primary and now, by refusing interviews and press conferences, are telling their voters that they don't deserve any explanations of any kind for anything.

I want to see some states sue the DNC to recover the costs to the state for their primaries that they nullified because they didn't like the winner.

-PJ

18 posted on 08/18/2024 10:25:11 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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How have the two parties come to be such perfect opposites, photo negatives of each other?
This tired old lie again, Ezra? Both parties are carbon copies of each other.

Funny how leftism squeezes the creativity and common sense out of a human being.
19 posted on 08/18/2024 10:31:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Kudsman

Matt Walsh called what is taking place in the media a fire hose of lies. Lies coming so fast and so many you can’t defend against them. We can see through them but the average voter may not. He also said he was fearful the practice may work. I do feel Trump should focus more on the policies and history of his opponents. However, the leftist media dominates. Americans seem to want to vote themselves into slavery.


20 posted on 08/18/2024 10:34:02 AM PDT by Lake Living
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