Posted on 08/13/2021 6:06:07 PM PDT by Rummyfan
To state the obvious, there is something going on out there on the Right which is a little different.
You see it clearly at the grass-roots level. It shows up brightly in the resistance to the latest round of COVID stupidity — mask mandates for school kids, vaccination discrimination in the workplace, and so on. But you’re even seeing it at the higher levels here and there.
What you’re seeing is that Bush Republicanism, to use one of the terms to describe it, is dead. It might still be twitching, mind you; the abject stupidity of the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill passing with 19 weak GOP Senators signing on demonstrates that it’s still showing spasmodic activity. But it’s off life support, and the prognosis ain’t good.
Something else has taken its place.
You can largely thank Donald Trump for that. Trump was hardly the only one who saw that the post-Reagan GOP mindset, driven as it was by think tanks and other organizations which had long since proven out Eric Hoffer’s famous maxim that “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket,” had outlived its utility. But Trump understood how to inject life back into the party. For all his faults, Trump reoriented the Right into something else, and now that something is larger than Trump.
I’ve said this before: Trump was never a conservative. He showed more fealty to center-right ideology than any of his national political predecessors, at least since Reagan, but that didn’t make him a conservative. Trump is much more accurately described as a radical centrist.
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The Bush League Republicans claimed to be conservatives and weren’t, anytime someone adds a qualifier, compassionate conservative, severely conservative, that’s your tip off that they are lying.
“ For all his faults, Trump ...”
Here’s where these people lose me.
I cancel people as soon as they give this signal of it get along with everyone’
We are all imperfect. There are some people who actively strive for sainthood.
In the squish gop of which this Scott McCray has placed himself, people who vote and comment after that the candidates and politicians must be not only striving for sainthood but must already be there, even though the Church and God Himself does not judge people until after they have left this life, as there is always opportunity for sin
These people play the leftist game of the gop must be saints and the democrats already are, they need no judgement nor repentance the democrat voters are catholic and they deem all candidates saints they must be left alone
Trump does not do that and therefore he wins everything. Including his second election in a landslide.
He has true humility. He knows who he is
And I say that as a practicing Catholic
Better hope not.
Without Bush Republicans, the GOP cannot win a majority in the House or the Senate.
In addition, the new Census will show that white voters have reached their lowest percentage in American history - around 66% of total LEGAL voters.
Since LEGAL non-whites vote 70%-80% Democrat, that is not exactly helpful news for GOP presidential ambitions, either.
Bottom Line...
The electoral game is over for Conservatives.
We have two choices.
We can do everything possible to slow down America's political and economic suicide.
Or...
We can work for a peaceful division of the former "United" States of America.
Ditto. The RATs are ruthless and the only thing consistent about anything they do is their relentless pursuit of power. You can't be mild with such evil. They must be defeated as the enemies they are.
Think of politicians as viruses. You want the good microbes to prosper but along comes this virus that tricks you into thinking it’s something it’s not. That’s a lot of Republican politicians. Once they learn a handful of words and a few steps of the dance, they get folks to accept them into their lives and defend them to the death.
Trump didn’t modify his rhetoric or actions to trick people.
None of this is intended to reprove you.
With no disrespect for Reagan intended, Trump built a
considerable amount of wall, over the objections of just
about everyone in Washington, D.C.
There was a list running around on the forum for a while there,
and it was about as impressive as it gets.
Trump did a massive amount of good for Conservatism.
Every once in a while I see someone saying Trump wasn’t all
that good, and it’s time for us to move on.
The Israelites said the same thing about Moses.
I don’t think it’s that out of line to say Trump was chosen
of God, to lead our nation.
He was intemperate, but when push came to shove, he acknowledged
God. In his own way, he was a man of God.
Not one single one of us is perfect. Trump saw a need, and
he filled the gap.
Name one president who did better. It’s impossible.
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