Rush spent the first half hour of his show mistakenly saying the Cohen plea was about the Trump Tower meeting. Embarrassing and what are we going to “rebrand” to? Progressive is taken. Traditional? What will we rename the republican party? If you’re not a Democrat it doesn’t matter what you call yourself.
The topic is on the table for debate, so have at it. What can’t be denied, for me at least, is that the word conservative is seriously damaged. That’s his point, and given that people like Paul Ryan, Bill Kristol, Jeff Flake and John McCain all considered themselves conservatives, the word is indeed damaged.
We can rebrand to the “Normal” party, with all others “Abnormal.”
Neither word probably exemplifies what they should mean. The word “liberal” has moved away from what it used to mean. The word “Progressive” to describe a liberal completely misses the mark; that word should be “Regressive”. Not sure what a Republican should be called if the name “conservative” doesn’t apply.