https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/med...93.504857691.1598219603-2087748323.1598219603 Do Republicans not recognize this giant step toward autocracy? You have no voice, no debate, no individualism. Cheeto Mussolini
Look at your speakers, there are no respected voices outside of the Trump family and sycophants. No independents talking about how the Trump agenda has moved them to vote for him, and certainly no democrats crossing over.
It's just undeniable that at this point followers of Trump have completely abandoned Democracy. Since Reagan the GOP has worked overtime to instill within their voters the notion that government is the problem so it should be no shock that this embrace of fascism is now a reality. Daschuda, Texx, Mick, etc. all own this now.
theyre all a bunch of cult members and are not even trying to hide it anymore. trump supporters are pathetic.
My god. The RNC couldn't be bothered to create a new platform??? How hard could it be??? They are literally saying that enthusiastically supporting Trump IS the platform???
Do you think they care what you think about their platform. They're about Trump and MAGA. Worry about your team That being said i saw a news report that said Trump's speech will focus on positivity as if the Democrats were being negative addressing his record on the virus the virus
Geezus is Trump endorsing Biden himself then? 170K + dead after Trump himself dismantled the pandemic response agency, called it a hoax, actively held back testing & bragged about it, and actively tried to work against health protection measures such as personal PPE. If Trump wants to talk about his record on Covid, that's a pretty warm endorsement of Joe Biden.
This is actually a thoughtful piece with some interesting interviews, but we know the usual suspects will dismiss it. Really interesting quotes in it from interesting people inside the machine.
It really was, I was debating using the twitter post, or actually posting the headline and article...probably should have done the latter since most of the twitter posts don't get clicked on. I thought it was interesting that guys like Bush and Boehner were privately backing Biden, but didn't want to announce it so that they could later have influence over the party when it (hopefully) shifted back.
Sure thing: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/24/republicanmeltdown-trump-convention-400039 The Grand Old Meltdown What happens when a party gives up on ideas? More at the link at the top
Thanks, some key takeaways. “Owning the libs and pissing off the media. That’s what we believe in now.” Brendan Buck, a senior Republican congressional aide All the while, Trump kept busy suggesting a delay to the November election and predicting that the only way he will lose is if ballots are rigged against him. He repeatedly misstated the key statistics of the coronavirus and misleading citizens about its scale; condemned American cities to “rot” amid continued social unrest and violence; defended the Confederate flag and suggested that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake; promised a “full and complete health care plan” that never materialized; declined to attend the Capitol funeral of civil rights icon and beloved congressman John Lewis; dog-whistled to white suburbanites that Black and brown people are readying an “invasion” of their neighborhoods if Biden wins; extended well-wishes to Ghislaine Maxwell, who stands accused of running Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex-trafficking ring; pondered a sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service for the purpose of suppressing absentee votes; warned that Biden, a lifelong Roman Catholic, is “against God” and will “hurt God” if elected; indulged an encore presentation of birther speculation, this time with regards to Kamala Harris, the California-born Democratic VP nominee; and, naturally, pressured the governor of South Dakota to make room for him on Mount Rushmore. This is not a party struggling to find its identity. This is a party in the middle of a meltdown. “The GOP has been here before with John Birchers and it didn’t end well,” said Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator who has been a vocal if terribly inconsistent Trump critic. “The party of Lincoln and Reagan ought to have something big and bold to offer the country, but it’s got way too many grifters selling grievance politics.” Whenever I watch Gaetz—who has used his platform to publicly intimidate a federal witness, to host a Holocaust denier as his State of the Union guest, to wear a gas mask around Capitol Hill in a mockery of the Covid-19 threat—I am reminded of the admonition offered by his father, longtime Florida state Senator Don Gaetz, at Jeb Bush’s campaign launch in July 2015. “We cannot save this country,” the elder Gaetz declared, “with politicians who have no principles.”
