Posted on 07/11/2024 6:03:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Next week, for the third time in eight years, Donald Trump will be nominated as the Republican Party’s candidate for president of the United States. A once great political party now serves the interests of one man, a man as demonstrably unsuited for the office of president as any to run in the long history of the Republic, a man whose values, temperament, ideas and language are directly opposed to so much of what has made this country great.
It is a chilling choice against this national moment. For more than two decades, large majorities of Americans have said they are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, and the post-Covid era of stubborn inflation, high interest rates, social division and political stagnation has left many voters even more frustrated and despondent.
The Republican Party once pursued electoral power in service to solutions for such problems, to building “the shining city on a hill,” as Ronald Reagan liked to say. Its vision of the United States — embodied in principled public servants like George H.W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney — was rooted in the values of freedom, sacrifice, individual responsibility and the common good. The party’s conception of those values was reflected in its longstanding conservative policy agenda, and today many Republicans set aside their concerns about Mr. Trump because of his positions on immigration, trade and taxes. But the stakes of this election are not fundamentally about policy disagreements. The stakes are more foundational: what qualities matter most in America’s president and commander in chief.
Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people...
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They can still stitch big words into a reasonable facsimile of the Babylon Bee. :)
Jo is able to stand up..most of the time.
4 more years!
The Slimes just called for Biden to step down.
Now they want to get rid of Trump.
Are you sure about that? I think they already have.
What a pant load.
But you have to give them credit for trying!
This is tough for the times in terms of them making an endorsement in the election.
They’re saying the Trump is unfit and they’ve said that Biden is unfit, and Biden should drop out, so who the heck are they going to endorse?
Then again how many people pay attention to newspaper endorsements nowadays?
The wheels have come off the Times.
I was hoping the NYT was going to endorse Trump.
Now they want to get rid of Trump.
The New York Times is a threat to democracy.
I’d buy that for a dollar...
The same “newspaper” that didn’t notice a thing wrong with Joe Biden until the disastrous debate two weeks ago.
Coming from the NY Times who never endorsed a Republican in their lifetimes.
I would say just wipe your ass with this paper but you would undoubtedly get an incurable STD.
Irreconcilable differences. We have no shared values, no common goals with the “progressives”
Justice Alito said “One side or the other is going to win. I don’t know. I mean, there can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised. So, it’s not like you are going to split the difference.”
How hard is it to spell “Joe Biden” right?
Worst of all: mean tweets.
These people covered up for an impaired old fool. Who believes anything they write? They should be ashamed, not dishing out more propaganda gaslighting attacks.
BTW was picking Harris for VP one of the biggest backfires in US history?
And will Jo’s dementia be one of it’s luckiest breaks?
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