Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Ban abortion, cut taxes, arrest Mexican rapists. Prayer in schools! Lots to do!

[Sean Hayden]

Yeah, I'm just fooling myself.

[L'Emmerdeur]

So how do the Republicans move on after Trump? We can't work with this party if they keep going down this path, surely? So what's the plan? Are these guys even thinking about that?

Pre-Trump, the party leadership had plans of trying to recruit more broadly outside the white Christian/evangelical conservative (and increasingly aged) demographic that has become the mainstay of the party. Presumably that's because they are well aware of the trends in US society: that demographic will inevitably decrease in relative size. With the party's embrace of Trumpism, those ideas were tossed out the window. I don't see them making a comeback in the near future.

Note that even before Trump, the plan was not to try to work in a bipartisan manner to create solutions to the issues facing the country (not forgetting that denial is the more or less official Republican position on climate change), but to ensure that the party would dominate electoral politics in the US. The current Republican mindset is not to share power, but to try to have it all their own way. This stems from an ideology that has increasingly hardened over the past few decades (more or less beginning in the Reagan administration, evolving with Gingrich, then the Tea Party and on to Trumpism), which categorizes anybody who disagrees with it as 'un-American' and therefore illegitimate.

In heavily conservative rural regions, and with gerrymandering and vote suppression elsewhere, the Republicans will continue to hold on for a while, and the slew of highly partisan conservative federal judges that McConnell has been able to install to lifetime appointments will help with that program. There doesn't appear to be a long-term strategy beyond that, and true believers seem to think that somehow they're really the majority ('just look at all the red on the map!!') What is now the Trumpist party (in everything but name) seems set to marginalize itself as time goes on, and the rest of the country will have to carry on and work to overcome what will be an increasingly feeble obstructionism.

[Seabass]

Those radical, extreme, far-left Democrats have gone too far left!


Bill that would effectively make abortions illegal passes OK House

The measure would revoke the license of any doctor who performs an abortion.

https://okcfox.com/news/local/bill-that ... s-ok-house

[Sean Hayden]

So how do the Republicans move on after Trump? We can't work with this party if they keep going down this path, surely? So what's the plan? Are these guys even thinking about that?

Pre-Trump, the party leadership had plans of trying to recruit more broadly outside the white Christian/evangelical conservative (and increasingly aged) demographic that has become the mainstay of the party. Presumably that's because they are well aware of the trends in US society: that demographic will inevitably decrease in relative size. With the party's embrace of Trumpism, those ideas were tossed out the window. I don't see them making a comeback in the near future.

Note that even before Trump, the plan was not to try to work in a bipartisan manner to create solutions to the issues facing the country (not forgetting that denial is the more or less official Republican position on climate change), but to ensure that the party would dominate electoral politics in the US. The current Republican mindset is not to share power, but to try to have it all their own way. This stems from an ideology that has increasingly hardened over the past few decades (more or less beginning in the Reagan administration, evolving with Gingrich, then the Tea Party and on to Trumpism), which categorizes anybody who disagrees with it as 'un-American' and therefore illegitimate.

In heavily conservative rural regions, and with gerrymandering and vote suppression elsewhere, the Republicans will continue to hold on for a while, and the slew of highly partisan conservative federal judges that McConnell has been able to install to lifetime appointments will help with that program. There doesn't appear to be a long-term strategy beyond that, and true believers seem to think that somehow they're really the majority ('just look at all the red on the map!!') What is now the Trumpist party (in everything but name) seems set to marginalize itself as time goes on, and the rest of the country will have to carry on and work to overcome what will be an increasingly feeble obstructionism.

Thanks for the analysis.

[Tero]

Yeah but who will they get to be Trump 2? Because they can only run trumps now. No romneys. And the trump kids are not trump. You have to be at a different level of trumpiness, nut just a rich kid.

[pErvinalia]

Rush Limbaugh!

[Sean Hayden]

You're trying to give people nightmares aren't you?

[Seabass]

[pErvinalia]

Mitt Romney for Prez!

[Seabass]

You're trying to give people nightmares aren't you?

You mean you're not already having nightmares?

[Tero]

Reoublicans on mission from Trump, to impeach Biden as soon as he is elected:

"We write to request information about whether Hunter Biden used government-sponsored travel to help conduct private business, to include his work for Rosemont Seneca and related entities in China and Ukraine," the senators wrote, referring to the company co-founded by the younger Biden.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/treasu ... t-says.amp

[Cunt]

No-one is taking Biden as a serious threat for 2020

[Cunt]

Republican sources query...

Why is China/Qatar donating vast sums of money to our education institutions?

and...

Harvard leads U.S. Colleges that receiveed $1 billion from China

Probably not relevant to anything though...just throwing shade on them high-falutin academics.

[Tero]

Yeahbut Trump. Nobody took Trump seriously in 2016. We could well get Biden. He will serve one term.

Trump lost Michigan already
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epoll ... higan.html