Posted on 05/14/2021 4:34:17 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
What is the point of the Republican party?
This isn’t a flip question. It’s one prompted by the last four months of grappling with the fallout of the bloody insurrection on Capitol Hill, and by the last four years of grappling with the fallout of installing a fascist in the White House.
So, for real: what does the GOP stand for? Apart from trying to seize back power, what does it want to do?
The answer, as Liz Cheney has learned, is to pander to the ego of a single Florida resident who has no obvious or coherent political purpose.
This might just explain why the party has been struggling so hard to respond to the last four months of the most tenuous Democratic control in Washington.
The Biden team has not commanded the nation’s capital from a position of strength because of LBJ-like powers of persuasion, Democratic unity or structural majorities. They have succeeded because Republicans sorely lack – as George HW Bush used to put it – the vision thing.
There was a time, not so long ago, when the GOP stood for small government, or big business, or at least big churches, or sometimes the little guy. They were for standing up to foreign enemies and domestic taxes.
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Consistency meant nothing inside the cult. More billions of spending on a nonsensical border wall?....
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(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
They are still focused on trump as the cause of this. He’s not. He’s the result, not the cause.
What color is the sky in your world, Richard Wolffe????
(Noting the soyboi name spelling.)
Fabian Socialists are some of the worst kinds of people.
Talking your way into destroying the lives of millions, and never ONCE being held up for ridicule and punishment.
We are definitely gonna need whole bunch more rope . . .
the GO P party
What a dork.
Trotsky learned the hard way that the communist eventually eat their own. Bolshevik Jews like Wolffe (spelled with an e) are just useful idiots for the Guardian. /spit.
there’s been no point to the R party since Reagan. with a handful of exceptions, they seem to try harder to be sane, more reasonable democrats than actual republicans.
That’s his untouched up photo in #7? And he’s Jewish? OMG! Now I understand why I got beat up after school so much. They probably knew him and took it out on me!
LOL!!
Yeah they ‘stroked his ego’ to his face and stabbed him (and us) behind the back. What’s wrong with an ego driven truth teller who does what’s right for the nation vs. the ego driven backstabbing cabal in DC only lusting after power and self-enrichments while selling the nation down the abyss.
The Guardian... Makes the NY Times look sane... 😀
This author has gone full retard.
The primary purpose of the GOP since 1989 has been to block the citizens from stopping the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
Keeping the borders open and the laws unenforced assisting the Democrats to import a permanent Democrat majority.
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