Posted on 07/17/2019 12:21:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
It’s been decades since Democrats had to confront a genuine challenge from the far left...
The cracks in the party were most evident last week after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) casually deployed the race card against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). To be sure, Ocasio-Cortez’s side swipe — implying Pelosi singled her and her progressive allies out for criticism because they are women of color — was bad enough. But the real depth of the challenge Democrats face is better seen by looking at comments from Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti...
Observers may wonder why Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff are engaging in this internecine battle. From the viewpoint of the evolutionary left, such efforts are futile and self-defeating...
Chakrabarti let the cat out of the bag in a recent extensive profile in The Post magazine. According to the report, Chakrabarti told an aide for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), a presidential candidate, that his boss’s Green New Deal “wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti says, “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” You can’t get much more revolutionary than that...
It’s no coincidence that the Green New Deal speaks as much about ensuring quality jobs and helping “frontline and vulnerable communities” as it does about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also calls for an “economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II,” uprooting the U.S. economy with the government calling the shots...
If the entire U.S. economy must be uprooted — if the United States is inherently a “racist system” — then those who propose evolutionary change are as culpable as those who oppose any change at all. They must be opposed as strenuously...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I respect your well thought out views on the matter.
However I just don’t see the GOP as being reformable. If Reagan and Trump couldn’t do it, that pretty much tells me its futile to try to “convert” this soulless party into committing itself to some standing principles and ideological convictions.
I speak from the advantage of knowing people who worked inside the RNC and other GOP organizations. They convinced me that the party’s culture of appeasement is permanently embedded because of the historical funding structures that the party relies on.
I concede that a third party would be challenge but I would rather put effort and money into a responsive and principled party than waste it all on a party which does not respect or fight for its political base.
I think Trump could successfully establish a third party and have no doubt that he has considered doing so many times. If anyone could do it, he could.
Just my humble opinion.
I love seeing the hard core left fight the hard core left.
Muslims are easily controlled and manipulated. Women in Europe are in for a rude awakening come 2 more generations in Europe.
At least the downfall of Europe will hopefully set a clear example for the mushy middle in the U.S.
It’s been wonderful watching President Trump hog-tie the Dems on so many issues!
I love this man more each and every day, and PRAY for his safety every night. MAGA! :)
Also respectfully, I think one must define what reforming the party means.
As president, and should the republicans lose the White House either in 2020 or 2024, Trump is the ‘head of the party’ now. But he only gets to influence where he can either appoint RNC positions or bring his coattails to help elect others. You would probably know more about the workings within the RNC than I. Clearly folks like Majority/Minority leaders and others have weight in this as well.
But the part that matters is the other 535 elected officials in Congress. Trump can campaign, but its the people who ultimately vote for those guys. That’s not converting some committee, that’s convincing voters to come out.
The country has dumbed down dramatically since our young days, and the problems we have wont be solved just be fixing a party. We need to fix our nation, our education, our respect for life and God. Its going to be a lot of work on many fronts.
They are openly supporting inane policies, taught by professors in bubbles, that have led to centuries of regional genocidal conflicts in the rest of the world. A new approach has been invented since the commie push of the 40s: Women and children to the front. The sex and race card is weaponized to invoke elevation to SaintVictimhood as a now-proven way to force their will on over-accommodating, long-cowed, ‘white savior’ virtue-signalers in DC, also educated by the same professors in bubbles. Point in fact, the proposed BDS measure. This needs to stop. Victimhood needs to be rightly viewed by the adults in the room as juvenile and irrational, nothing more than a cheap battle tactic, before our cherished Congress becomes irrelevant. When a President can be censored as racist by a disgraceful House for repeating ‘love it or leave it’, it’s a sad day for America, indeed. And high time America got a flippin’ grip.
“...Today’s republican party is marginal at best....”
That’s being way too kind.
GOPe = RAT = UniParty = Deep State = Communists
Yeah...they may all wear different hats, they all may tell different lies to get elected, but their end goal is ALL the SAME...and it sure as hell isn’t to MAGA. Right now, the only thing standing between us and them is President Trump.
See my 77 and 86.
I understand why people get mad at GOP, but they really are not the same as RATs, far from it actually. You might not be happy with the GOP but the goals of the Dem party are the death of the constitution. The GOPe just needs to clean out those pols that cant remember who they represent.
Vote conservative in primaries. Vote R in generals. A D vote or a no-vote never helps.
They are not drawn. Those that are bold were taken out by the enemedia.
The survivors quickly learn not to be "bold".
Trump has shown the enemedia can be beat.
Why? How?
Technologically, we now have some limited ways to get around their control of the narrative, their ability to select what topics are important, their ability to decide what is a scandal, and what is not.
While members of his own party stand around wringing their hands and agreeing with the MSM-Democrats.
“...Vote conservative in primaries. Vote R in generals....”
Agree. That’s how we vote here. We do NOT donate to the GOPe. Instead, we donate to specific conservative candidates and support them however we can. Those that have been flushed out as GOPe and/or wear the GOPe banner need to be primaried and/or voted out. They’re wolves in sheep’s clothing so to speak.
I also agree with you that the party needs to be taken back from within...BIG TIME.
I think that a choice between two bad choices is a “dilemma.”
Thank you very much! This is my favorite win gif :D
We (and I include myself) share some of the blame for our national mess. We put these people in office and keep returning them to Washington despite their repeated failures to do what they said they would do. We should be voting strictly on the basis of tangible accomplishments, a demonstrable willingness to fight for our principles, and evidence of making good on promises.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t matter to the RNC. We only hear from them when they want our money.
One of the last straws for me was when the GOP controlled congress allowed Paul Ryan to retire in place and spend his spare time trying to derail the Trump presidency. The GOP allowed him to do this knowing full well that their voters wanted them to support Trump and his efforts to make the country better. Imagine what could have been accomplished if the House Repukes had worked hard to back him? Instead, they opted to backslide and do as little as possible. It was simply disgraceful.
The way I look at it, few people thought Trump stood a chance of winning but he was undeterred and thank God he did what he thought was the right thing for the country. Given the repeated failures of the GOP it just seems logical to me that given Trump’s example of political courage and bold thinking, the idea a third party is not that far fetched. Its worth a try.
Exactly. I’m ‘so over’ so many of them, too!
Trump is now playing inter-dimensional chess
Good job!
“Nan has a petrol filled tire around her neck and her little girls are waving a lighter around.”
Priceless!
The Communist Donkey Party has already driven into the ditch.
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