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Bound to No Party, Trump Upends 150 Years of Two-Party Rule
New York Times ^ | SEPT. 9, 2017 | Peter Baker

Posted on 09/10/2017 6:01:52 AM PDT by Magnatron

Now in the White House, President Trump demonstrated this past week that he still imagines himself a solitary cowboy as he abandoned Republican congressional leaders to forge a short-term fiscal deal with Democrats. Although elected as a Republican last year, Mr. Trump has shown in the nearly eight months in office that he is, in many ways, the first independent to hold the presidency since the advent of the current two-party system around the time of the Civil War.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; third100days; thirdparty; trump45
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1 posted on 09/10/2017 6:01:52 AM PDT by Magnatron
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MAGA!!
2 posted on 09/10/2017 6:03:21 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Magnatron

President Trump looks like an alien creature from outer space to the Globalist-Corporate-Socialist elite ruling class.


3 posted on 09/10/2017 6:04:20 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Magnatron

Well, Extremism is the American way. If you can’t carry a thought or action or fad to the furthest reaches of extreme you are not living.

The headline is the extremely extreme extreme


4 posted on 09/10/2017 6:05:42 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Magnatron

To the MSM, Trump is the new McCain.


5 posted on 09/10/2017 6:06:20 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Magnatron

President Trump has been attacked by all sides for his entire campaign and time in office.

To say he abandoned the Republican congressional leaders is ludicrous.

He did give them a very public smackdown.


6 posted on 09/10/2017 6:06:28 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Magnatron

Have been saying since Trump began his run.....President Trump is/was creating a third party within the Republican Party and it is evolving.


7 posted on 09/10/2017 6:08:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: central_va

Of course not

Trumpis a dyed in the wool citizen of the world businessman with interests all around the world.


8 posted on 09/10/2017 6:09:11 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Magnatron

The Uni-party upended “two-party rule” about 20 years ago.


9 posted on 09/10/2017 6:09:35 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Magnatron

Even when Trump reaches across the aisle, the NYT finds fault.

Trump-Hate knows no bounds.


10 posted on 09/10/2017 6:10:38 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: bert

>>Well, Extremism is the American way. If you can’t carry a thought or action or fad to the furthest reaches of extreme you are not living.

Yep. This is a nation founded by people who got on a sailing ship and gave a big FU to the established order so they could go live or die in a wilderness as free men.


11 posted on 09/10/2017 6:11:15 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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Two party rule may not be the best system. We were warned against political parties to begin with. But two parties would be 1000 times better than the SNAFU Uniparty! We must replace the s LL- out RINOs — ASAP!


12 posted on 09/10/2017 6:11:25 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Magnatron

Two party rule may not be the best system. We were warned against political parties to begin with. But two parties would be 1000 times better than the SNAFU Uniparty! We must replace the s LL- out RINOs — ASAP!


13 posted on 09/10/2017 6:11:43 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: bert

Are you in denial? Trump is an economic nationalist or at least he ran as one. You missed the whole campaign?


14 posted on 09/10/2017 6:11:50 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Working with Democrats rather than flatly opposing them thus and seeking to defeat them at every turn is how McCain became McLame....

And people are happy Trump seems to do the same in this instance?

Remember: “bipartisanship” means going along with the left, the price you pay for their friendship and sufferance is always too high.


15 posted on 09/10/2017 6:12:54 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Magnatron

The so called “party” abandoned him. His loyalty lies with the American people...not political leaders. MAGA


16 posted on 09/10/2017 6:21:15 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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If the party had run Biden, the Dems might have had a chance. But Hiilary was the person who could raise the most money for the party....It’s the ONLY reason they let her run.


17 posted on 09/10/2017 6:27:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“...since the advent of the current two-party system around the time of the Civil War....”

Maybe it’s time for the “two-party” Uniparty System to have an Independent American Party Boot planted firmly in it’s collective arse so the governing of the People is actually BY “We The People”.

Because the Uniparty is clearly interested in only one thing - itself.

Just sayin’...


18 posted on 09/10/2017 6:31:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Magnatron

Congress is basically comprised of corporate liberals.


19 posted on 09/10/2017 6:39:01 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: Magnatron
Mr. Trump has shown in the nearly eight months in office that he is, in many ways, the first independent to hold the presidency

independent?

Trump is a free market constitution loving American party president against a globalist uniparty congress.

There is no difference between a Democrat and a Republican. They both want to continue the American fire sale for personal gain.

20 posted on 09/10/2017 6:41:30 AM PDT by Eddie01
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