The Republican Party’s only principle is to have no principles. Its only strategy is preemptive surrender. Its only plan for victory is to tick off its base as much as possible.
The GOP long ago ceased to be a useful instrument for the advancement of conservatism.
The idea of the two-party is that the parties promote meaningful alternative policies. The Republicans are scared that someone might say something bad about them if they do that. They’re scared of their shadows.
The Republican Party was founded in the 1850s to replace the Whigs because the Whigs would NOT take a stand on the key issues of the day. Well, they did such a good job of replacing the Whigs that they have become the Whigs.
We’re told that a third party will guarantee permanent Democrat victories. Well, I imagine the Whigs making the same argument — look how that worked out.
“The idea of the two-party is that the parties promote meaningful alternative policies. The Republicans are scared that someone might say something bad about them if they do that. They’re scared of their shadows.”
Republicans don’t care if the media says something bad about them. No politician in an office higher than dogcatcher got there without being slammed.
Th GOP doesn’t fight back because they agree, for the most part, with the Dems.
It’s not Dem versus GOP. It’s the ruling elites versus all the rest of us.
The elite from both parties have a hell of lot more in common with each other than they do with the general population.
The leaders from both parties play us like fiddles and the general population, left and right, go on being played.