we’re not chopping off a limb or two. We’re cutting out the cancer
I agree in litmus testing in the Republican party. I have been a supporter of this for many years and I am glad that it is happening.
The WSJ is famous for having conservative editorial page writers and flaming leftist reporters.
In this case, they seem to have invited a flaming leftist in to advise the Republican Party.
As it notes at the link, Thomas Frank is “author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? (2004) about the red-state mindset. His book about conservative governance, The Wrecking Crew, was published in 2008.”
Yeah, sure. Looks like a candidate to be next chair of the RNC.
The Dems litmus test: abortion, socialism, surrender.
Dim bulb.
The “checkoff list” was pretty limp-wristed, to tell the truth.
The reference to purge trials is noxious. No trials, just stop voting for people who don’t have any principles.
And, to the GOP swells, stop asking us to vote for these people. Give us people who understand basic economics, and the basic founding principles of the republic, and we won’t have a problem. Keep sending up people who want to give away the farm and we do have a problem.
Do we want to get rid of GOP “moderates”? No. Not at all. We just don’t want them in office. If they don’t know what they stand for, let them remain in private life where they won’t do as much harm.
/sarc
Democrats did this decades ago. JFK could not be nominated today. The Henry Wallace wing of the party runs the party now.
The very first thing that we need to do is get rid of that Mitt Romney character.
Frank comes from a leftist political perspective and is highly critical of Republican governance, especially the presidency of George W. Bush. However, he has also criticized the Democratic Party for "swearing off economic 'liberalism'"[1]. He is unique among writers on the American Left both for his political outlook, which revives the discourses of the American Populist Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [2] and for his polemical style, which has been said to update that of the muckrakers of the same historical era [3].
Frank is the founder and editor of The Baffler and the author of several books, most recently The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Other writings include essays for Harper's Magazine, Le Monde diplomatique, Bookforum, and the Financial Times. His book What's the Matter with Kansas?, published in 2004, earned him nationwide and international recognition.
What is America, or any Nation actually without debate?
RINO’s are Leftists. Other Political Party’s are available for Leftists. The primary Leftist Party today is the Democrat Party. That is where Leftists belong, NOT in the Republican Party.
If the Republican Party continues to accept, and promote the “BIG TENT” direction, the “Reach across the aisle” business, of which btw the Democrats, Leftists do not reciprocate, then there will be only the Leftist perspective in our governance. There will be no debate, which is what makes our Republic unique, and successfully so.
The RINO’s must be sent scurrying back across the aisle to warm their own bench. Clean out the Leftists from the Republican Party, or lose this country for many a year to come.
If we lose our country to the Leftists due weakness to react appropriately, I wonder how many millions here, and around the World dependent upon the U.S., and our freedom will eventually die because of our weakness.
We play fair, the Leftists don’t.
Purge Trial = Primary Election
That’s the way the system works.
I agree with the owner of this site in regards to this issue.
Thomas Frank is one ultra-dense idiot if he believes conservatives had anything to do with this economic catastrophe. There have been very few conservatives in congress or the senate in recent years, even when the Republicans held the majority in both houses.
Outsouring American manufacturing and jobs to out enemies is not conservative. Fomenting an invasion of illegal aliens is not conservative. Importing 140,000 visa workers per month to displace American citizens is not conservative. Manipulating markets to the detriment of American citizens and calling it Free Trade is not conservative.
All these actions and more are the behaviors of the global socialist neo-con RINOs and their soulmates, the communist Democrats.
Conservative means conserving, protecting and defending the US Constitution, bearing true faith and allegiance to the same, against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Excluding them from committee chairmanships? Just who does he think led the Judicial Committee for Republicans in the Senate. It sure wasn’t Jeff sessions. It was the traitor in RINO cloth who is now a Democrat.
