If anything I thought the GOP was the dumb part before those three. What with the sex scandals, hypocrisy, and flat out nonsense. And Newt Gingrich.
It began with Ronnie. He was amiable, but in his pleasant way clearly anti-intellectual, in a way that his GOP predecessors were not. He wasn't a guy to read books, and that was part of his appeal. We're now at the stage when a Republican Presidential candidate who did admit to reading would be viewed with distrust, as thinking he was above his voters.
It is not about facts, it Is about what the Trumpist crowd will believe. To them Clinton and the "deep state" directly hired a foreign spy to make up lies to sabotage the great leaders campaign.
And George was one of his buddies in Washington - sharing meals together with their spouses, etc. I've seen George quite a bit on the talk show circuit lately, sounding the alarm for the demise of conservatives in the republican party. He is obviously a very intelligent man with a great command of the language and able to express ideas that few contemporary conservatives can match. And I do enjoy and respect that. But the flaw in his character is that he is not introspective. Never was. Not when he was calling Vladimir Pozner a "journalist of sorts" while at the same time enjoying those evenings together with Ronnie and Mommy. He is a man that is very sure of himself and his ideas and nothing can penetrate that armor. Now rather than examine where the conservatism movement might have gone wrong, he offers that what's going on in the republican party is just an infection to extirpate, not a natural evolution of their worst tendencies. At least he is calling on "true" conservatives to vote for the democrat in the Presidential election in 2020, as he did in 2016, but only in so far as the Senate is still securely republican.
Well put. Your comment, of course, applies to pretty much all "Never Trump" Republicans. Which is understandable, They would not have been Republicans entering the Trump Era if they had confronted the party's dark side, not unless they were evil, and most of them are not. They were in denial then, and remain in denial now. As recently as 2012, a mainstream Op-Ed writer (The Wall Street Journal) would write that Democrats were the party of emotion and Republicans the party of ideas. It was dumbassery, of course, and I commented on that at the time. But nonetheless dumbassery that kinda, maybe, could sort of be defended, given that Mitt Romney was the GOP's POTUS nominee, and given that many national Republican politicians at the time fashioned themselves as rationalists. Now, only Cult Members could make such a claim. It would be instantly discarded as ludicrous by pretty much the entire world.
I honestly don’t think you’re gonna take Times Square. pic.twitter.com/niyBuhutvi— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 15, 2019
Don't believe your eyes and ears... On Fox News Sunday, Mike Pompeo nearly blows a gasket when Chris Wallace asks him very straightforward questions regarding Trump's comments about how he wouldn't contact the FBI if he's offered dirt on a 2020 opponent by a foreign government. pic.twitter.com/HgpyFDgBG5— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2019 Socialist history: Fun fact: Kentucky used to be a county in Virginia. https://t.co/D8CnBQWHPb— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 17, 2019 According to Republicans: healthcare = socialism voting = socialismcivil rights = socialismrich people paying taxes = socialismfree press = socialismpeace = socialismeducation = socialismscience = socialismI mean, you CAN see why they're afraid of socialism— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 17, 2019 McConnell apparently defines socialism as "people who aren't white having actual influence in government" https://t.co/kYQZLZTJkx— 🕷Dante Atkins🕷 (@DanteAtkins) June 17, 2019
Honestly, if you do a little digging into the conservative movement you'll find it was never all there to begin with. William Buckley's history is quite something once you dig and find that the movement has always been like that.There's a reason Buckley snapped when Vidal called him a Nazi. Of course there's the pro-Franco comments in National Review, his siblings burning a cross at a Jewish resort, or the National Review saying Eichmann shouldn't be put to trial. Conservatism has always been twisted. No matter how articulate it comes across.
The same people who opposed the 13th and 14th amendments, womens suffrage, the civil rights act, interracial marriage, gay rights, etc, are the people on the Right today. Wrong side of histories hill every time.
Reagan's success was managing to convince a generation that "liberal" was a dirty word, government was bad, and overplaying welfare fraud committed by a woman who had done much worse.
To summarize, McConnell is saying taxation without representation is democracy, but taxation with representation is socialism.
And they are wrong. If they cannot see, or be convinced, that they are wrong, they must be marginalized out of existence. That is the only way to defeat "Trumpism" is to marginalize it out of existence.
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Every once in a while I pause and am left speechless at how incredibly inept this particular government is.
the residents are angry? what about the fucking alligator? https://t.co/PDzUbNFTAw— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 15, 2019 I lost the link but someone wrote, whoever pulls the knife out is the new king of Texas.
I won’t pretend to understand this, but I’ll bet a million internet dollars that Fox talked about it. Mario Draghi just announced more stimulus could come, which immediately dropped the Euro against the Dollar, making it unfairly easier for them to compete against the USA. They have been getting away with this for years, along with China and others.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2019 European Markets rose on comments (unfair to U.S.) made today by Mario D!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2019
[Can't believe I'm explaining Ceezmad] I think that what he meant, is that for a person of faith, reality or facts are irrelevant, because beliefs. Off course for the rest of the world, reality is what matters, but Trumpers live in an alternate universe, so the set of rules they play within is totally different.. [Done clarifying ceezmad]
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Oh, I agree (both with your explanation and your dismay at trying to explain ceezmad). It does not change the fact that facts matter and are relevant.
Fredo: He’s right. https://t.co/ZRlenHkXrq— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 17, 2019 So true. I saw him picking cotton behind the White House yesterday.— Czario (@Czario) June 17, 2019 The Central Park 5 say hello...— 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 (@ChidiNwatu) June 17, 2019 1140770275904151552 is not a valid tweet id Get in the car Fredo— vanmojo (@vanmojo) June 17, 2019