Frank Donatelli
Posted on 08/20/2019 2:51:50 PM PDT by TBP
On the eve of World War II, the Republican Party was a shell of the one that had dominated presidential politics from the Civil War through the onset of the Great Depression.
Two individuals saved the GOP and made it relevant again.
Dwight Eisenhower ran on an internationalist platform in 1952, favoring foreign aid to Europe, the new military alliance called NATO and an aggressive stance against Soviet Communism, thereby asserting U.S. world leadership. He vanquished his isolationist foe, Sen. Robert Taft, for the GOP nomination in 1952 and then won the first Republican presidential victory in 20 years.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan sought to move the GOP beyond its narrow confines in the Northeast and Midwest. He built on Eisenhower’s internationalism, preaching limited government, free markets and supply-side economics – policies designed to bring prosperity to ALL Americans, not just the well-connected.
Two signature issues – restricting immigration and trade – have pushed back on 60 years of Republican orthodoxy and dramatically changed the party’s image and focus.
Trade policy is the first example. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), designed to marginalize China, has been shelved. Speaking of China, we are on the verge of a full-blown trade war with no end in sight and no clear end game. Presidential adviser Peter Navarro is an unabashed admirer of tariffs and believes they have contributed to our strong economy.
Most economists and virtually all CEOs would disagree.
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This idiot doesn’t get that we’re in a culture war and there’s no “run for the hills” republican that can hold a candle to Trump in this fight. Everything else is secondary, not that Trump is doing badly in everything else.
We lose this war, and we’re 80% there, you can kiss what used to be America goodbye.
No need to ditch Trump’s two signature issues, but Trump can’t win on them alone. There are tons of other great MAGA issues that he could be raising.
we need to reclaim Nixon… he was victimized by the establishment in the same way trump is being victimized
“Yup, the NeverTrumpers are out in force.”
Wait a bit...I dont see the usual suspects but give it 2 more hours and just like cockroaches, they show up later to prolong the thread...
For one thing, Bob Taft was much preferable to Eisenhower.
possibly, but Taft died in July 1953, as I recall. So even if elected it would have been his Veep that would have had his hand on the tiller of the ship of state.
This guy sounds like he just stepped out of a Chamber of Corruption meeting.
He says tariffs are taxes. He does not mention the theft by China of corporate, technological, and defense patents and secrets as a “tax”. He also does not mention as a “tax” the burden American taxpayers shoulder for allowing in legal and illegal low wage labor (free education, health care, etc., etc.).
I don't know how old you are, nor what, if anything you were taught/learned about the 1950s, but you can NOT judge Nixon's "THE OPENING OF CHINA" trip by happened in more modern times! Fault the more recent presidents for allowing Chiba to get away with murder and where that led to today, that Trump is trying to undo.
In the late '60s-early '70s, peeling China off the Sino-Russo pally-wally co-conspirators against the USA, was brilliant move.
LOL...the old "fiat money" bit. I bet you're all in for BITCOIN and/or what is being now contemplated as a rival idiocy; though.
Agreed. They should do us a favor, become Democrats, and try to win elections that way. Never Trump’s policies sound completely reasonable, they should start their own party and advocate for them.
“The country would be better off today if Pat Buchanan had gotten the nomination instead of Bush. The Globalist can all join the Dems for all I care.”
Absolutely.
Who is this knucklehead? On of those Ninja Frogs? Never heard of him.
I believe you completely. Imho your finger is on the pulse of America
Indeed, they have always been weak
They had a few decent leaders but the only thing going for them is they are better than democrats by comparison
Whoopteeedo
IOW, time to become the Whigs again.
Time for Fox to scrap the Murdock Daughters in Law decrees and go back to its roots. I don’t care what lock box the Murdock sons’ balls are in...enough is enough!
Most of the Republican party REALLY misses the days when they got away with being a bunch of do-nothing, corrupt, greedy pussies. They HATE having a real leader because they hate doing anything for their country and they hate having it exposed that things CAN (and could) be done - that THEY’RE not doing.
An absolute waste of a party.
And the RAT party is, of course, 100X worse.
Hey, President Trump... maybe not now, but in 6 years start a NEW party. Many of us are already in it, and we’re out here waiting for you.
Such hubris
Can’t win an election but they want to tell us what to do
Pound sand
Seems he connected to Young Americans for Freedom, A Project of Young America’s Foundation
https://www.yaf.org/staff/frank-donatelli/
Frank Donatelli
A long-time activist, Frank Donatelli is chairman of the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors and serves on Young America’s Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Frank served as executive vice president and director of federal public affairs for McGuireWoods LLP from 2001 through 2018, when he became a senior advisor to the organization.
Frank is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the American University Law School.
During the 2008 Presidential race, Senator John McCain tapped Frank to serve as deputy chairman of the GOP where he coordinated the RNC’s fundraising and organizing activities directly with the McCain-Palin Presidential campaign.
His previous appointments have included serving as an assistant to President Ronald Reagan for political and intergovernmental affairs and as deputy assistant to the President for public liaison at the White House. He served on White House Chief of Staff James Baker’s team that negotiated Presidential debates in 1984. Frank was also a senior advisor to Bob Dole in 1996 and represented his campaign in debate negotiations.
Frank has more than 30 years of experience in public policy advocacy and boasts substantial expertise in the legislative process. He has represented a wide variety of companies in such diverse areas as energy, taxes and trade, telecommunication, and Homeland Security and has provided strategic advice and policy guidance to many large companies and trade associations.
He has also represented US victims of international terrorism and helped to enact legislation that resulted in compensation for the families of those killed in the Marine Barracks bombing in Lebanon in 1983 and families of U.S. victims killed in the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. Funds were obtained from countries, including Iran—and intermediaries that facilitated these terrorist actions—not from U.S. taxpayers.
He has appeared on numerous public affairs programs on MSNBC, Fox News and CNN and is a noted writer whose articles have been printed in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, and New York Daily News.
In 1992, Frank chaired the Christopher Columbus Quincentennery Commission, which celebrated the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the New World.
From 2009 to 2014, Frank was Chair of GOPAC, the organization which trains and supports conservative legislators to be effective spokesmen and advocates for conservative policy proposals. During that time period, the number of conservative state legislators rose to numbers not seen since the 1920s.
jmho: “He ain’t no conservative!” Looks, walks like a rino?
“Scaramucci”
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