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January 3 - January 13, 2021
become president when you get more votes. To lose by half a million and become president takes professionals.”
Politico called “Trump’s War on California,”
there is a long history of trends in California as harbingers of what America will become. As the largest state, it has often served to be an insight into what the country is becoming,
In 1980, California was 66 percent white and 19 percent Hispanic.23 In the 2010 census, it was 40 percent white and
37 percent Hi...
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This gets to the heart of why Republicans have now decided th...
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By contrast, in 1994 in Texas, George W. Bush ran for governor with a welcoming message to Mexican Americans, and it helped secure the Republican Party’s dominance in Texas.
In the 2018 Senate race, that support dropped to 35 percent for Ted Cruz,
a warning sign for Republicans as Texas becomes increasingly Hispanic.
political cowardice is just what it looks like: weakness and opportunism mixed with fear and self-loathing.
Mona Charen, a longtime conservative columnist, Dr. Russell Moore, a prominent Southern Baptist leader, and Bill Kristol, former editor of The Weekly Standard—have continued to stand by their principles and taken the associated heat.
a security detail had to protect Mona Charen after she said it was wrong for conservatives to support the accused child molester Roy Moore
Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist preacher, called for Russell Moore to be fired by the Southern Baptist church for Moore’s principled stand on Trump.
Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard went out of business.
it is a fantasy to think that the impact of a nation’s major center-right party embracing a racist unprepared to be president with Trump’s deep psychological problems will not be lasting.
mocked the disabled, attacked a former POW hero, paid off a porn star from the Oval Office, defended Vladimir Putin’s murder of journalists, bragged about assaulting women, and implored foreign governments to investigate his political opponents.
What does a center-right party in America stand for? Once this was easy to answer: fiscal sanity, free trade, being strong on Russia, personal responsibility, the Constitution.
Now? Can anyone honestly define what the Republican Party stands for beyond “owning the libs”?
no defined pri...
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that party trampled over every value in which they sw...
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What institution of the center right stood firm against the disgraceful idiotoc...
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the Armies of the Right fled in terror from…a tweet.
they have proven they deserve none of our respect.
They had a sworn oath to defend the country and chose to defend Donald Trump,
these men and women have proven themselves unworthy of such a benign and bland reckoning with history.
Each bent the knee and kissed the ring,
they have proven to be small men and women unworthy of the greatness of the country they were elected to defend.
This was my tribe.
but I did hold out for an assumption of decency. They have proven me wrong,
No one wanted this moral test, but most of my tribe have failed it.
the Republican Party has legitimized bigotry and hate as an organizing principle for a major political party in a country with a unique role in the world.
A few years ago it was possible to read a professional hate website like Breitbart and sort of chuckle that this was the odd corner of the political universe where the weirdos and freaks hung out to share grievances. Now that can be said of the national Republican Party.
From the party of Lincoln, Republicans have become the party that endorsed Roy Moore and cheered when the man they would choose for president called Mexicans “rapists.”
Strange, angry freaks like Sebastian Gorka and Stephen Miller are celebrated, not shunned.
The Trump Republican Party has abandoned any pretense of kindness or compassion as a desirable human quality.
Any appeal to country over party has long been proven as ineffective as a Texas governor organizing days of prayer for rain.
What must be understood is that these Republicans like what they are championing. They like being the voice of white America.
It is impossible to move them by any appea...
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it will soon not be a party that can win national elections,
There has always been a market for hate in America, but it’s never been the dominant market.
The proper perspective in contemplating the future of the Republican Party is not that of the Whigs or the Bull Moose Party but rather that of a colonial power in a foreign land.
Today there exist two Republican parties that are linked mostly in name only:
the Republican Party of Washington elected officials and the infrastructures that support them,
and the Republican g...
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Republican governors—Phil Scott of Vermont, Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, and Larry Hogan of Maryland—are among the most popular governors in America.
Their greatest electoral difficulties lie not with the larger electorate but within their own party.
it’s difficult to imagine the calm competence of these Republican governors having much impact on the direction of the Republican Party.
I find myself in a very strange and uncomfortable position of looking out at the political landscape and seeing no reason for hope that the party I spent decades working for can be redeemed.
how can the party that gave us Donald Trump be a legitimate voice for conservatism as a positive force?
A political party without a higher purpose is nothing more than a cartel, a syndicate.
