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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Max Boot is a conservative like Hillary Clinton is.
Stopped. Not worth reading.
Max Boot is a NeverTrumper that not many payed much attention to even before Donald Trump.
He’s Jennifer Rubins BFF
Phuck off max.
max is a dirty filthy liar.
Ever notice these fake conservatives project just as much as their liberal brethren?
Is no Conservative. Never has been one....
Neocon pseudo conservative.
We are not conservatives, we are Nationalists and Populists. F off Max Boot, obsolete pos.
I love it when some leftist so-and-so identifies some goon as a conservative. My brother-in-law tried that trick on me by pumping Scarborough and David Brooks of the NYT as conservatives. But he is so far left that maybe they are conservatives to him.
Max Boot has written a couple of devious editorials in the Wall Street Journal. That does not mean he is a conservative.
Max Boot ain’t a conservative.
No, a bunch of those people i never considered conservatives for one second, ever.
Hey Max, stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
What a first class loser. Perhaps he has something to hide as well.
Boot sees shadows of the Third Reich in nearly everything he disagrees with.
Dear Max:
BLow it out your ass. Trump is the MODEL of what Republicans should be.
We’re here to stay, Maxipad... sucks to be you.
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