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Time for GOP to ditch Trump policies and 'go back' to the future
Fox News ^ | August 19, 2019 | 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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TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eisenhower; globalistcrap; gop; nevertrumpers; reagan; tpp; trump; trumpasia; trumptrade
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To: TBP

Fox News: written by Progs, for Progs.


61 posted on 08/20/2019 4:09:12 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: IWontSubmit; dp0622

Dang, he looks like one of those (possibly) crooked bankers in the old “Twilight Zone” episodes.


62 posted on 08/20/2019 4:10:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: onyx

Dole? Yikes!


63 posted on 08/20/2019 4:12:06 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: TBP

We had these kinds of ‘Republicans’ in 1980, telling us why Reagan so terrible.

Easy solution - just ignore them. This clown’s dad was probably one of them.


64 posted on 08/20/2019 4:12:22 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Williams
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain tapped Frank Donatelli to serve as Deputy Chairman of the Republican National Committee, where he coordinated the RNC’s fundraising and organizing activities directly with the McCain-Palin presidential campaign....

So, there is that .... loser.


65 posted on 08/20/2019 4:13:53 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: rintintin

Never Trumper Alert!!!


66 posted on 08/20/2019 4:19:32 PM PDT by SierraWasp (BLM = Black LIEs Matter!!! Used to be known as "Bureau of Land Management")
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To: TBP
Back to the future, where there will be no Europe.



67 posted on 08/20/2019 4:26:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: TBP

I’m not seeing Donatelli as a true NeverTrumper, but this article is erroneous and not good ideas and strategy.


68 posted on 08/20/2019 4:26:32 PM PDT by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: Williams

People forget that Nixon over McGovern was *the* standard for landslides until Reagan brought back the GOP from its post-Watergate coma with a 49-state defeat of Mondull.
He went easy on him too, so Mondull could have the consolation prize of winning his home state.


69 posted on 08/20/2019 4:29:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: traderrob6

It had to do with who, or *what* (”a Commie”), WASN’T President.


70 posted on 08/20/2019 4:31:52 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: TBP

“For one thing, Bob Taft was much preferable to Eisenhower.”

Yeah, because allowing the Soviet Union to pick off Western Europe in our absence would have been the height of wisdom. /sarc


71 posted on 08/20/2019 4:33:09 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: TBP

Another Bush League McCain stooge.

They are like cockroaches.


72 posted on 08/20/2019 4:33:48 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: Williams

“Frank J. Donatelli is a Republican Party political consultant and lawyer.”

Frank Donatelli is a GOP establishment shill. A Hugh Hewitt clone.


73 posted on 08/20/2019 4:35:00 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: PCPOET7

And for a much longer time; they were relentless towards Mr. Nixon, from the time he beat Helen Gahagan Douglas, for the Senate seat from California, because of the “PINK” flyer!


74 posted on 08/20/2019 4:43:15 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Sam Gamgee; nopardons

“I will admit what I don’t know - and frankly I know nothing really about Ike.”

Pick up a copy of Fred Greenstein’s “The Hidden-Hand Presidency”.

Not only will you learn a good deal about Eisenhower as President, you will end up suspecting that Trump has read this book and uses tactics that were first done by Ike.

And of course to really understand Eisenhower you need to read of his time as a 5 star and Supreme Allied Commander Europe during WWII. There has never been a president better prepared to deal with difficult foreign policy than Eisenhower.


75 posted on 08/20/2019 4:48:34 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: PCPOET7

Nixon not only didn’t roll back Lyndon Johnson’s massive government expansion, he added to it. The EPA, revenue sharing, wage and price controls, stagflation, a badly flawed treaty with North Vietnam... yeah he was a real prize. A precursor to the Bushes.


76 posted on 08/20/2019 4:54:30 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: traderrob6
The 50’s were arguably the single best decade this country has ever experienced and it had actually very little to do with who was President at the time.

Possibly. But Ike didn't make the kind of serious mistakes that could have ended that peace and prosperity. Later presidents did.

It's somewhat impressive how historians who looked down on Ike when he was president, came to see him as an excellent administrator.

Though Eisenhower made some serious mistakes, general competence counts for a lot.

The prosperity of the fifties didn't end with a crash, and Ike didn't get us into any major wars, so I don't begrudge him credit for that.

77 posted on 08/20/2019 5:03:31 PM PDT by x
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To: nopardons; Sam Gamgee

“LOL...the old “fiat money” bit.”

I suspect that Gamgee is thinking of Nixon’s abrogating the Bretton Woods Agreement and breaking the dollar’s last link with gold.

I think it was a very unwise decision on Nixon’s part but the pressure on the dollar had begun in the last years of Eisenhower’s presidency and it was due to using the dollar as the world’s reserve currency while running an activist foreign policy. It created something known as the Triffin Dilemma. The only way to have kept the dollar linked to gold would have been to cease using it as the reserve currency.


78 posted on 08/20/2019 5:06:11 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: TBP
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.

"Strong" in what context?

We didn't have high tariffs in recent years, so they aren't a contributing factor to the current economy.

Historically, though, tariffs did a lot to promote industry in 19th century America.

Whether or not we still need them is something people will disagree about.

I wouldn't take the CEO's word for it, though.

And economists don't have to worry about their jobs going overseas (yet).

79 posted on 08/20/2019 5:07:31 PM PDT by x
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To: Pelham

That IS a good book.


80 posted on 08/20/2019 5:11:28 PM PDT by nopardons
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