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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: jimfree

MAX needs my steel toed size 9R BOOT up his ass.


61 posted on 11/25/2020 8:35:09 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: henbane

I can’t tell from that picture, are his eyes brown?

If not, he’s about 2 quarts low.


62 posted on 11/25/2020 8:41:27 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Although you would think so from his great knowledge of military matters and last name of “Boot”, Herr Boot, never served in the military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Boot. “Boot attended the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with high honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1991 and Yale University with an (MA in Diplomatic History in 1992).[2] He began his career in journalism writing columns for the Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian.” It was a BIG stretch for him to be a never Trumper.


63 posted on 11/25/2020 8:48:02 PM PST by PK1991 ( )
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To: MarvinStinson
Never Trumpers were all Chiefs... NOW they're all Chiefs and NO INDIANS.

Sorry Max Boot, you and the other DC never trumpers don't represent enough Republicans to elect a dog catcher in DC.

Join the democrat party Max.. just do it.

VOTER FRAUD UNDERMINES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

64 posted on 11/25/2020 9:05:49 PM PST by GOPJ (VOTER FRAUD UNDERMINES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY)
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To: Fungi

That type of republican doesn’t care what a person says when they’re running for office - but when that person gets to Washington they expect him to ‘pivot’ to the crooks in the deep state and forget about their promises to ‘the people.

That’s why they hate Trump...

Trump got to Washington and kept the promises he had made to the people who voter for him rather than spreading the wealth of American taxpayers to the thugs who run DC...


65 posted on 11/25/2020 9:13:34 PM PST by GOPJ (VOTER FRAUD UNDERMINES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY)
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To: jimfree

Yah conservative my ahz.


66 posted on 11/25/2020 9:41:43 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Osage Orange

He can come to da woodz, we give him da boot.


67 posted on 11/25/2020 9:45:24 PM PST by ScholarWarrior
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To: ScholarWarrior

Remember when they tried to promote that f** Bill Maher as a conservative?


68 posted on 11/25/2020 9:47:10 PM PST by ScholarWarrior
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To: MarvinStinson

Trump’s legacy for the GOP will indeed be chilling. The thought gives me chills of delight.


69 posted on 11/25/2020 10:32:02 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: kiryandil

“Das Boot”


70 posted on 11/25/2020 10:38:20 PM PST by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: MarvinStinson

Max Boots republican party is dead.


71 posted on 11/26/2020 12:15:11 AM PST by mimaw ( )
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To: jimfree

He wears the jersey so the Post can pretend they have one.


72 posted on 11/26/2020 10:48:51 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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