If we defeat Trump, can we get the normal Republican party back please? Which Republicans have stood up to him?
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Anonymous
How was he savaged? He caught heat for saying young people should borrow $10k from their parents and take a chance by starting a business, as though that’s a viable option for many people. We were horrified that he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon on a family vacation. We laughed at “binders full of women.” |
Anonymous
Acting strong is not suggesting to use the force of the US military domestically on people who oppose you. |
Anonymous
Most average jews are progressive/liberal. The only Jews who are GOP are the orthodox/conservative ones who are strong zionists. And the only reason the Evangelical GOP is pro-Israel is for The Rapture. It is so weird. |
Anonymous
Not equating the two "sides" but your fooling yourself if you think it's one party that is responsible for all the political games that lead to a poorly functioning government. Newt's cut throat political style was a game changer and that movement along with social media and cable news exploding led to division in politics like we've never seen before. |
Anonymous
There is zero chance anyone (even current republicans) will be rehabilitating Trump's image in a decade or a century. |
Anonymous
What did the democrats do to change rules that lead us to where we are (and don't ascribe changing the filibuster that Reid did because McConnnell refused to allow Obama appointments through to the point the Chief Justice had to beg the Senate to change to rules before the judicial branch collapsed) |
Anonymous
It wasn't so long ago that people were begging the International Criminal Court to try and imprison Bush for war crimes. He was even convicted in lesser courts. Now he's an elder statemen. He got a lot more people killed and touched off a conflagration that's still burning to this day. Trump didn't kick off any wars like that or get millions of people killed. He said the quiet part out loud and grabbed some, uh, parts. It will be 10 years tops until Democrats start invoking his name, and posting things like "Trump would be rolling in his golden grave if he saw what Republicans are like today." |
Anonymous
Poor little Mitt, born no so much on third as halfway to home base. Worked for Bain and did all he could for crony capitalism. Recorded saying 47% of Americans are "takers," and no, he wasn't referring to private equity, helping themselves to workers' pension funds. "Corporations are people, my friend." He was and is quite far to the right, which is what sunk him, not some sort of dishonest attack by Democrats, who only said what was true. Still, he does believe in the Constitution and the rule of law, so he's legit. He just lost on his own merits. |
Anonymous
| I was 18 in 2004 and listening to NPR after the election - they were acting like it was a day of national mourning. "The end of America."My professor kicked a guy out of class because he said he voted for Bush. (Anthropology 101 at Michigan State). I guarantee that professor is now talking about how Bush was a great guy! |
Anonymous
Please do provide proof that liberals are saying W was a great guy. Saying that Trump is so bad he makes W look good by comparison is not the same. |
Anonymous
People have at least been willing to admit he did some good things. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/opinion/aids-pepfar-bush.html But I'll agree with you that most of what I see is people saying they wish for the day when they thought W was the worst thing ever. |
Anonymous
I’m old enough to remember people carrying posters of GWB looking like Hitler during protests of the Iraq War and liberal commentators calling GWB and Cheney fascist war criminals ad nauseam. Now Harris is parading Cheney’s daughter across the country and celebrating Dick Cheney’s endorsement. |
Anonymous
Harris is highlighting that even right wing war criminals who have never supported a Democrat before are supporting her because Trump is so dangerous. She’s touting their endorsement of her, but the endorsements don’t flow in the other direction. No one is endorsing the actions of W’s administration. |
Anonymous
Not equating two sides here. There is fair blame to be cast at who started certain things first. This doesn't change the fact that our two parties have used their power to evolve into entities that are now too big to fail as rules have been put into place to make a 3rd party emergence nearly impossible. This gives the flexibility to play political games that only serve to benefit them during election cycles and not to serve in manner that is helpful to the American people. Case in point- the Biden Administration along with Congress could have and should have pushed the border bill proposes last year much sooner. They chose to wait until election season knowing that it was unlikely the GOP would allow it to pass and therefore they could use that as a campaign tool to offset doing nothing to improve the situation at the border for the first two years of Biden's presidency and they can fairly say accuse the GOP of not passing a bill that would have been helpful. That's a political game that does nothing to help our country but it does it help Dems in re-election bids. There is no recourse for such political games because they have no fear of the American people saying we've had enough and ditching them for a 3rd party. Republicans pushed the Citizens United decision allowing money to become a much bigger influence in politics. Blame them for that. This being said; both parties have played the money game and it's both parties who are now forced to prioritize the interest of their big money donors as opposed to the prioritizing the interest of all Americans. Again, very little we can now do to change that. It is what it is. |
Anonymous
It just shows how much the GOP has fallen off a cliff. |