I try to keep reminding myself that Mr. Trump is putting up the FIGHT for us like no other GOP nominee could possibly muster. It’s awful how the dems have such an electoral advantage going in. As a former democrat (thanks to Mr. Trump), I cannot fathom why my old party has fallen off the deep end of insane left wing liberalism.
Trump is going to upend the rats so-called “electoral advantage.”
Think Joe Lieberman. Highly regarded politician (as politicians go) but got primaried on the left. As they kick their 'right wing' out of the party, left is all that's left.
Back in the 1960s and 70s the Democrat party was infiltrated by the Communist Party USA, CPUSA.
Communists are patient in most cases and they slowly pushed their agenda into the mainstream of the Democrat party and brought in more communists. Moving further to the left, they started to sweep up the crazy minorities and push those agendas as turning policy into insanity is a key element in overthrowing a government. The discord and confusion allows them and the government to erode the freedoms of the the citizens and assume control.
Trump transcends Parties.
“I cannot fathom why my old party has fallen off the deep end of insane left wing liberalism.”
Because the late 1960s radicals took over the Democratic party. This POTUS election is (hopefully) their last hurrah.
They went all in with a puppet in 2008. He is going to leave with a legacy that is going to feature bathroom politics, gay everything, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the Middle East, a healthcare system that nobody likes except for the media and large insurance companies, and “saving an auto industry” that’s destined to fail yet again because the core problems were not solved when they were bailed out.
At the state level, the messiah of 2008 presided over a USA that saw vast majorities of state legislatures pretty much reject the Democratic party. The Democrats you liked were pretty much wiped out once and for all during the 2010 elections ... it seems the 60s radicals wanted party purity.
Also, the 60s radicals were too concerned about their own power. They didn’t groom a very good “next generation” since I suppose they lived in fear of being replaced by them before they decided to step down. The Dem GenXers have more in common with left-leaning Libertarians and Dem Millennials can’t spell “cat” without a participation trophy and assurance that they won’t be offended when the answer is revealed. All it’ll take to shake those demographics up a bit are some decent job opportunities along with a good economy.
Add all of that up and you have a completely destroyed political party unless you’re into the political beliefs of the late 60s free love (but death to all of those that don’t believe) radicals.
The problems it’ll face moving forward are going to be power struggles among the relics that survive. They’ll unite to blame everything on Trump should he win, but behind the scenes, they’ll *still* be fighting one another since politics is all they have to believe in.
-—As a former democrat (thanks to Mr. Trump)
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That’s where I’m at. I was a Reagan Dem, then voted for “read my lips”, then Perot, then never again voted until this year. Trump brought me back to voting. I would have never even found FR it wasn’t for following an article about Trump.
I would have never thought to go R because they were so anti-union (I’m a union pipefitter), but my party has done nothing for the unions I work with for the last 20 years except bring in illegals to take those jobs (the Republican party is the same thing, they want to export jobs, the dems want to import cheap labor), tell me I’m a homophobe, a sexist, a racist, or whatever.
When your own party is attacking you, you feel helpless. Trump (like Reagan) makes me feel like he will make a difference, that America IS great (no matter what the politicians tell you), and that I shouldn’t feel guilty for being a white male who has worked his whole life.
I didn’t care about politics until Trump, because it seems the hippies called the shots, and the Republicans just rubber stamped everything they did (only paying lip service and grumbling about it to raise money).
So, this year, for the first time in since Perot, I’m voting. I grabbed an R primary ballot, so now I’m on the R voter roll (which is not a prudent thing to do as a union contractor who works Chicagoland), and so have many of my fellow pipefitters and plumbers.
The Democrat platform has been pro-abortion since 1972. The whole party has been run by Communists since 1994.
Look up Trevor Loudon. He has the story.