Posted on 02/24/2016 7:41:04 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
For the last eight months or so, a significant portion of the Republican party's voters have been in thrall to a bizarre, Occupy-esque conspiracy theory, which holds as its central thesis that sabotage and pusillanimity are the root causes of the Right's recent woes. In this mistaken view, the conservative movement's failure to counter all of the Obama era's excesses is not the product of the crucial democratic and structural factors that prevent any one faction from ushering in substantial change, but of a lack of will or desire. Sure, the advocates of this view will concede, the shutdown of 2013 was doomed from the start, in large part because the public sided with President Obama. But if the GOP had just held out a little longer, they imagine, the "power of the purse" would have prevailed and the popular dynamics would magically have shifted. The same insistence obtains elsewhere: Sure, there is no precedent in which a second-term president willingly repeals his centerpiece legislative achievements simply because the legislature has elected to play hardball with its powers. But somehow, the critics believe, this time would have been different. Why, they ask repeatedly, didn’t the Republican party just "fight" harder?
Given how broadly this opinion is held, one would have expected the 2016 primary season to reveal a penchant for purity that redounded to the favor of a candidate such as Ted Cruz. And yet, oddly enough, quite the opposite has happened thus far. Led by Donald Trump, the most frustrated voters have instead put their efforts behind a well-telegraphed attempt to burn down the whole political edifice and reconstruct it from scratch. Because it has been imperfect, the GOP must be destroyed.
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i think more like satan welcomes the gop at the end of time to congratulate it. but otherwise pretty much on target.
There wasn’t this level of madness and distemper among so-called professional “conservatives” in either of Obama’s elections ... and the more I see them squeal, the more I wish for Trump to destroy every aspect of their contrived and worthless world.
Yep.
I have never seen this much energy spent on a single cause, ever.
They really, really don’t like that Trump can’t be bought.
I suspect that as he’s ascended in the past few weeks, they have tried and failed to make him offers.
Now it’s two minutes to midnight and they’re in a full-blown panic.
I genuinely, truly cannot tell WTH this guys is even talking about....I can only infer that he hates Trump....all of his big words are getting in the way.
I’m supporting Cruz and I don’t care for Trump, but for a smart sounding guy, Cooke really screws the pooch on this one. I am so sick and tired of hearing this tripe about how the Republican majority in both houses of Congress couldn’t do anything. The Constitutional system of government was exquisitely designed to give each branch tools to check the others. If, when it comes down to it, and the leadership is spending the country into oblivion, shredding individual rights, inundating the nation with foreigner who will not assimilate and bring violence, drugs, disease and even terrorism across our borders, those powers must be used to the utmost to put a stop to it. The thing that really stopped a Republican Congress from acting was fear of the consequences to their political careers and golden parachutes. Cooke argues that it would all be for naught because the public was against it. Why was that? Because it was a terrible thing to do? No! Because those weasels never fought for it, never articulated the desperate need to act.
Exactly ..
> “Led by Donald Trump, the most frustrated voters have instead put their efforts behind a well-telegraphed attempt to burn down the whole political edifice and reconstruct it from scratch. Because it has been imperfect, the GOP must be destroyed.”
The edifice this ass refers to are the cronies that think themselves as an elite ring of kingmakers and money managers, who have failed catastrophically at maintaining the GOP brand and now seek to blame anything or anyone of their malfeasance including treating rank and file republicans as irrelevant except as a paying audience for this elite’s orchestrated events. In short, what they’re selling is awful and they are upset that not many are buying their awful product.
This ‘edifice’ of old corrupt bad blood is not being ‘burned down’ by supporters of Trump (except in their hysterical desperate minds), it is being turned out to be replaced by new blood that is more representative of the GOP rank and file.
The GOP rank and file is not set to ‘destroy’ the GOP nor is it demanding perfection. It is set to destroy the corrupt elements that have damaged the party’s brand and representational capacity. It aims to restore the brand that has been soiled by the current group of occupants who have elevated themselves by default as spokespersons of the GOP when in fact they are repulsive to the GOP rank and file.
In short, GOP supporters of Trump are telling the failures of the GOP establishment “YOU’RE FIRED!”.
Trump isn't the one talking like a PC RINO.
If he were, he wouldn't be the Republican frontrunner.
The policies Trump is proposing, overwhelmingly, are the antithesis of PC RINO thinking. Trump's policies are conservative policies, by and large.
Trump:
The National Review staff lives in an alternate universe.
Get it through your thick skulls, you wanna-be gatekeepers...
I’ve been wondering .. by the time the dust settles and we have a nominee, and if that nominee is Donald Trump, what happens to all these purported “conservative” writers who spent months trashing Trump?
So much of the vitriol directed at Trump reminds me of 1980, except back then it was the Dems for the most part who were assuring use the world would end if that madman Reagan were elected. SOME establishment Republicans attacked him as well, but it wasn’t a full court press like the anti=Trump.
I also wonder how/if FR will come together after all the bitterness the primary season has generated. Lots that’s gone on here is just too ugly to ever reconcile, at least among certain individuals, if not the entire board.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Get it yet?
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Good grief, these establishment droids are losing their ever lovin minds over Trump. Pretty soon they’ll start dropping from high rises, they’re so distraught.
Can anyone ever remember seeing a front runner in a presidential election being treated this way?
I know - it’s a rhetorical question. We’re all aware by now that the reason the entire Uniparty establishment is freaking out, is because they know that Trump is coming for them, and he’s bringing a couple hundred million angry citizens with him.
I personally have no use for Trump or anyone supporting him. I will vote against Hillary or Bernie in the general election because I have no choice, but I won’t like it.
The hatred and animosity exhibited on FR between Trump and Cruz factions represents the coming split in the Republican party. The Cruz supporters represents the true Conservative philosophy while the Trump cult is the natural allies of the old Eastern Republican establishment.
LOL! That about says it!
I do agree with the theses that a lot of the anger over the GOP Congress not stopping Obama was based on unrealistic expectations. Deciding the party had to be destroyed at the very point where it might be able to regain power and undo much of what Obama did seems like a rather sad joke.
But, it is what it is at this point. The options are to either back Trump, or not back him by try to salvage as much of the House and Senate as possible. But beating him in the primary really is no longer an option.
Well if the House and Senate can bring themselves to stop attacking Trump, there could be coat tails.
Nothing.
Its a joke.
He’s an odd one. A frequent guest on Kennedy’s show on Fox biz.
It's great to be anti-incumbent if the other party controls the House, and has more Senators up for reelection. But an anti-incumbent campaign will be disaster for the Senate, where 24 GOP seats are up compared to only 10 Dem. The bums getting thrown out will be overwhelmingly Republican.
He has Trump Derangement Syndrome..
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