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Conservative Columnist [Max Boot] Warns Of Donald Trump’s Chilling Legacy For The GOP
huffpost ^ | Lee Moran

Posted on 11/25/2020 5:41:52 PM PST by MarvinStinson

Max Boot, a conservative columnist for The Washington Post, in his latest op-ed Monday warned of what he fears will be President Donald Trump’s legacy for the GOP.

Boot wrote of his hope that Trump’s “outrageous” bid to overturn the 2020 election would be “the last gasp of a pathetic presidency in its dying days” but also of his worry “it might represent only a middle chapter in the Republican Party’s transformation” into an authoritarian party.

Boot, a vocal critic of Trump, noted how even before Trump’s arrival on the political stage, “Republicans had shown their willingness to use any means necessary to exercise power” — citing the 2000 election as just one example.

But Trump had “turbocharged the Republican revolt against democracy” and “produced a party platform whose only tenet is fealty to the supreme leader and his nebulous agenda.”

The GOP has in recent years become the party of conspiracy theorists and right-wing extremists, said Boot, noting how instead of trying to appeal to moderate voters, Republicans had now just turned to suppressing them.

And if Trump does run in 2024, Boot cautioned, then prominent Republicans “will do nothing to check his authoritarian impulses.” “Much of the GOP has already decided that achieving its policy preferences is more important than preserving America’s democracy,” he added.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: boot; districtofcolumbia; enoughalready; huffingtonpost; huffpo; jeffbezos; leemoran; maxboot; maxbootlicker; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; rino; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: MarvinStinson

Israel first war seekers are not conservatives. Fake.


21 posted on 11/25/2020 5:57:07 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: MarvinStinson

How much of a whore do you have to be to be called a “conservative” by the commie liberal MSM?


22 posted on 11/25/2020 5:57:30 PM PST by caver
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To: MarvinStinson

Bwahahahaha

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Max Boot a conservative?????

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


23 posted on 11/25/2020 5:57:51 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: MarvinStinson
“Republicans had shown their willingness to use any means necessary to exercise power” — citing the 2000 election as just one example.

Like getting more electoral votes, winning in Florida and not allowing Gore to steal it?

Does he not see that the Democrat Party is by far the more authoritarian party? Everything is either required or prohibited. There is now "allowed" in the world of the Democrats.

24 posted on 11/25/2020 5:58:44 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: libertylover

Exactly this. Why would someone post this pointless, troublemaking sh*t?


25 posted on 11/25/2020 6:02:22 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: MarvinStinson

Max Boot is not a conservative.
No conservative considers Max Boot conservative.
Only lying propagandists would call Max Boot conservative.


26 posted on 11/25/2020 6:03:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MarvinStinson

“...chapter in the Republican Party’s transformation” into an authoritarian party.”


Yes, do feel for all of President Trump’s enemies who now languish in cells or who have been disappeared. Wait a minute, there aren’t any? It is shameful how violent Trump supporters have intimidated leftists. Oh wait, that didn’t happen either. What kind of authoritarian is Trump anyway?


27 posted on 11/25/2020 6:05:48 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: NFHale

The Neo-cons have rejoined the Dems. President Trump is building a true Multi-racial American Nationalist workers party.


28 posted on 11/25/2020 6:05:50 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up!)
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To: MarvinStinson

“a conservative columnist for The Washington Post”

There is no such thing.


29 posted on 11/25/2020 6:07:50 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: MarvinStinson
Why give FR space to a drooling super-RINO that shills for all kinds of left-wing sources?

"Who is Max Boot?

"Besides being a fellow at the CFR, Boot regular writes articles for such publications as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times."--Bill Crystal's rag and the Slimes from both coasts.

Tucker Carlson administers Max Boot a rhetorical beating on Fox News

30 posted on 11/25/2020 6:08:52 PM PST by henbane (The barbarians are inside the gates!)
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To: Fungi

Something happened to Max Boot, Jenifer Rubin, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Krystal, Mad dog Mattis, Michael Medved, Jim Comey,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

They have all been long time supporters of open borders/amnesty.
An integral part of the plan for the New World Order.
The only way to eliminate our sovereignty was to steal our country from us using the votes of foreigners.
Been underway since the last amnesty under the last 4 Presidents before Trump.


31 posted on 11/25/2020 6:10:35 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cowboyusa

American Citizen’s Party... there it is.


32 posted on 11/25/2020 6:11:33 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Maxipads Boot-in-the-Ass is a phony and a POS.


33 posted on 11/25/2020 6:13:38 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump.....one of the BEST presidents in American history!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Has “General” Max Boot formed his neo-con Lincoln Brigade to go fight and die in the Middle East?


34 posted on 11/25/2020 6:14:16 PM PST by wrcase
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To: MarvinStinson

Be sounds like a crushing bore. Pfffit!


35 posted on 11/25/2020 6:14:22 PM PST by Shady (It is the rule of law vs tyranny, plain and simple, and it is the fight of our lives...)
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To: libertylover
Max Boot, a conservative columnist for The Washington Post

Stopped. Not worth reading.

...and an Op-Ed from the Huffington Post. Yeah, that's like the mendacity trifecta.

36 posted on 11/25/2020 6:15:22 PM PST by Ranxerox
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To: MarvinStinson

When I got to “conservative columnist for the Washington Post” I stopped reading. Who do they think they’re fooling?


37 posted on 11/25/2020 6:19:46 PM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: jimfree

Max Boot conservative.

FACT CHECK:

Five pinnochios doing the backstroke in a cesspool.


38 posted on 11/25/2020 6:21:20 PM PST by thegagline
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To: MarvinStinson

Give Max Boot the boot.


39 posted on 11/25/2020 6:29:39 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Oh, STFU, Boot.


40 posted on 11/25/2020 6:31:36 PM PST by Salamander (Call them by their true name: Pedocrats.)
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