Posted on 10/22/2021 10:06:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
In a recent Washington Post opinion piece, Robert Kagan presented a chilling, but disturbingly accurate, portrayal of American politics today and its dire portents given the deep political divisions and dysfunctional state of our institutions. A premise of his thesis is that “party loyalty has superseded [executive-legislative-judicial] branch loyalty … in the Trump era.” A more descriptive statement of the Republican side of the ominous national problem — Democratic extremists deserve at least equal blame — would be that loyalty to Donald Trump has superseded party loyalty.
Trump has proved himself to be the ultimate embodiment of a “Republican in name only,” or RINO, a political epithet now hurled at Republicans who dare to deviate — not from GOP principles, but from Trump adulation.
Originally a Democrat (as was Ronald Reagan), Trump suggested in 2015 he might run for president as an independent, which would have split conservative voters and ensured a Hillary Clinton victory. In the first Republican debate in 2016, he alone among a dozen GOP candidates refused to commit to support the winning party nominee.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
The GOP is damaged goods.
Give me Trump, not the GOP.
Clearly has absolutely no clue what he is talking about
He’s not president in 2021. What is this guy kveching about?
This guy never voted for Trump. Did Ann Coulter write this?
Articles like this result from the mountain of commentators on the internet writing articles, some good, most not. This is one that is not worth reading. He feels like he has to produce something from an angle no one in the whole world has thought of and so he is forced to write nonsense.
Yup- i always get emails from the GOP asking, “Are you still a Republican? and i always reply, “No- I’m a Trumplican!!”
They think their idiocy is sophisticated.
A RINO calling a Conservative a RINO. That made my day!
“RINO, a political epithet now hurled at Republicans who dare to deviate — not from GOP principles, but from Trump adulation”
Nonsense. It was never about “GOP principles”, it was about the will of the people, the conservative voter base, that is what they are supposed to be following, and what they have consistently refused to follow for decades. Trump just broke the mold and listened to what the people wanted, which is why the people are more loyal to him than the GOP traitors.
My Lord, I subjected myself to reading this garbage. UGH
Robert K has always been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump......in fact he endorsed Hillary.
He prefaces this with ...”I voted for Trump”......HAHAHAHA....His intent appears to get Trump voters to read his article. I didn’t go much further....He’s always been an Anti-Trumper.
This guy doesn’t get it. Trump won the presidency because he spoke what was on our minds, not because he ‘led’ any group of people there. We were conservative before Trump came along and will be conservative after he’s long gone.
“In a recent Washington Post opinion piece, Robert Kagan...”
And that was the big clue that a bunch of garbage was about to follow.
More hit pieces on Trump by the TDS Left.
There’s traitor RINO’s and Patriotic RINO’s.
Many Patriots like me are RINO’s. The Republican Party has left me, I haven’t left it or at least the pro-America free constitutional republic it is supposed to stand for.
Honestly, why post this crap? Demoralizing to unwary Freepers who love America.
Get with it JOSEPH BOSCO
What nonsense.
The Republican Party since NeoCon take over was just democrats-lite so I guess by extension Trump is a RINO.
They misunderstood RUSH for the same reasons.
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