I usually abhor vanities.
This one was different, and on a topic worthy of reading.
Thanks foe posting it.
I find commentators beginning to propound both possibilities if Trump continues his meteoric rise in the polls and turns that into election victories (or pluralities that are almost victories).
In this regard, Trump's "policies" or "agenda" (both pretty amorphous at the moment) are essentially beside the point. He's a GOP-wrecker, not because of what he's for, but because of what he's against. He's attracting wide support in a disaffected electorate, not because of who he is (though he is entertaining!), but because of who he is not. Trump is the catalyst for wrecking things in the current GOP china shop.
I don't think conservatives like Cruz will ever have a chance in the current GOP. It's been a wet blanket that has smothered true conservatives since Reagan, and Reagan had lots of people in his own party throwing wet blankets on him and everything he tried to do.
Fallen Far they have...
Bttt.
The Republicans did such a good job of replacing the Whigs that they have become the Whigs.
Their only principle is to have no principles.
Their only strategy is preemptive surrender.
Their only plan for victory is to tick off their base as much as possible.
When Democrats are in charge, it’s as if the country is a car going off a cliff at 100 miles per hour. At least the Republicans drive the speed limit — but you’re still going off the cliff. What we need to do is to turn the car around.
The problem that the Republicans have is that the GOP establishment is as enamored of wielding power from Washington just like their Democrat counterparts. While they have talked about reducing Washington’s influence, they have done nothing to do so. And eventually there is a rift- because there has to be.
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What a fantastic contribution to this forum! Thank you!!
Great post. I think you could continue the analogy pretty far along if you substituted illegal immigration for slavery.
Please... Do you really think any large number of Northerners were “abolitionists?” They were simply anti-Southern.
But they got their wishes: just visit inner-cities Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc.
This is where I differ with almost all on FR these days..
I think there will come a day when you will want people to vote for you (and that day is coming soon)...
If you have decided the Republican party et al is the bad guy and you cannot work with them, where do you get your votes?
Even if its the Republicans that have committed Hari Kari I think you will want them breathing long enough to vote.
I personally liked Trump better when he was a Democrat. But he says he found God and turned into a Republican and Im assuming that is the party most of you want to run with. Ross Perot’s Party is hard to find these Days.
Maybe to get elected Trump will stand like the Colossus of Rhodes with one foot in The Democrat Party and one in the (now dead) Republican party.
So FR seems wedded to the idea that all Republicans (but some) are evil incarnate.
Good luck with all that
Um, that was a great vanity. Thank you.
Oh, what became of Lynn Marshall, is he still alive?
Maybe this is why your "scholar" disappeared.
The Whigs were a Big (Federal) Government Party. They favored Federal Government involvement building railroads and supporting what passed for big business in those days. The real problem for the Whigs was that they had no positions on things that were (for better or worse) the issues of the day like expansion of slavery into the territories. So prominent members of the party took opposite sides and tore the Party apart.
For a real scholar's view try Holt's The Rise and Fall of the Whig Party.
ML/NJ
Great post. Very illuminating. Thanks for posting.
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