My colleague John Kenneth White published a provocative column in The Hill newspaper last week with a headline bearing the warning: “The Republican Party May Not Survive the Trump Day of Reckoning.”
There are two issues which have nothing to do with each other. The focus of this post is on what happens to the Republican Party. It might crash, and that's up to the Legislative and Judicial branches of government, which are largely not stopping the deterioration. Either they agree, or they're afraid to go after the princess, or they're making money every day from things like defense contracts.
The other issue is the princess. She doesn't care about the Republican Party. She cares about herself. She's an old lady now, and she's busy attracting what attention is left for her (she wants it to be as continual as possible), and skimming money she can't use. She must at some level realize that all the names, and images, and sculptures, are coming down, but she doesn't care about that. She hasn't even gotten her ballroom yet, but she's content to have destroyed the East Wing of the White House, because she just wants to be remembered for things.
If the Republican Party, as a party, is getting ready to lose its battle, the princess is winning hers. Big. And she doesn't care about any other outcome.
I'm appreciating the metaphor of Trump as princess because I'm imagining him in drag, which is something that I'm sure he would abhor thinking about. Thanks for the image!
She can't get enough bling and baubles, wants a special ballroom, is obsessed with her hair and make-up, talks about her special curtains and other fittings when everyone else is trying to talk about politics, and I didn't know what else to call her.
Meanwhile, I'm reading the Strength in Numbers blog where the author points out that a Blue wave may be needed to offset Republican super-mandering gains.
Betting on the unwashed Trump-supporting masses to not vote for GOP candidates is devoutly to be wish'd. But, I don't know how likely it is to happen. After all, the libs need to be owned -- that's the most important thing.
Crossing my fingers. The Republican party ain't dead yet.
When you describe what is happening to immigrant detention you are talking about concentration camps and you should forth rightly call them that. The language we use is important. We are experiencing life in a fascist country and while the Republican party may fall, the real damage it is doing is deadly.
I do think the GOP is headed to its own end. What I worry about is that the National Conservative movement is what will replace it in the meantime. Now, that faction seems to be maybe 40% of the current party. Maybe 60%.
I'm curious what the rest of the Republican coalition will do as its party's fracture becomes more and more inevitable. Will they become more reactionary? Or will they choose to abandon the grotesque, loudest, most extreme voices of the natcons?
You say he has “hobbled America’s press”, but how much successful censorship has there actually been? Obviously, there are some major media who are partners in crime.
I don’t suppose we could ever count on big media to serve the public good. But in any case, most Americans have all the evidence they need in order to make good decisions — if they will just choose to do so.
I perceive that most Americans don’t have enough of the right values. If they did, then it would be hard to imagine Trump ever finding enough appeal to be president. It is hard to imagine an upright person seeing anything good about Trump — or in any media that present him as a good president.
There are two issues which have nothing to do with each other. The focus of this post is on what happens to the Republican Party. It might crash, and that's up to the Legislative and Judicial branches of government, which are largely not stopping the deterioration. Either they agree, or they're afraid to go after the princess, or they're making money every day from things like defense contracts.
The other issue is the princess. She doesn't care about the Republican Party. She cares about herself. She's an old lady now, and she's busy attracting what attention is left for her (she wants it to be as continual as possible), and skimming money she can't use. She must at some level realize that all the names, and images, and sculptures, are coming down, but she doesn't care about that. She hasn't even gotten her ballroom yet, but she's content to have destroyed the East Wing of the White House, because she just wants to be remembered for things.
If the Republican Party, as a party, is getting ready to lose its battle, the princess is winning hers. Big. And she doesn't care about any other outcome.
I'm appreciating the metaphor of Trump as princess because I'm imagining him in drag, which is something that I'm sure he would abhor thinking about. Thanks for the image!
She can't get enough bling and baubles, wants a special ballroom, is obsessed with her hair and make-up, talks about her special curtains and other fittings when everyone else is trying to talk about politics, and I didn't know what else to call her.
Meanwhile, I'm reading the Strength in Numbers blog where the author points out that a Blue wave may be needed to offset Republican super-mandering gains.
Betting on the unwashed Trump-supporting masses to not vote for GOP candidates is devoutly to be wish'd. But, I don't know how likely it is to happen. After all, the libs need to be owned -- that's the most important thing.
Crossing my fingers. The Republican party ain't dead yet.
When you describe what is happening to immigrant detention you are talking about concentration camps and you should forth rightly call them that. The language we use is important. We are experiencing life in a fascist country and while the Republican party may fall, the real damage it is doing is deadly.
I do think the GOP is headed to its own end. What I worry about is that the National Conservative movement is what will replace it in the meantime. Now, that faction seems to be maybe 40% of the current party. Maybe 60%.
I'm curious what the rest of the Republican coalition will do as its party's fracture becomes more and more inevitable. Will they become more reactionary? Or will they choose to abandon the grotesque, loudest, most extreme voices of the natcons?
You say he has “hobbled America’s press”, but how much successful censorship has there actually been? Obviously, there are some major media who are partners in crime.
Colbert and Kimmel were forced off the air. Mainstream reporters are doing self censorship now.
I don’t suppose we could ever count on big media to serve the public good. But in any case, most Americans have all the evidence they need in order to make good decisions — if they will just choose to do so.
It is not an issue of evidence, but being able to discern reliable facts and grifting.
I perceive that most Americans don’t have enough of the right values. If they did, then it would be hard to imagine Trump ever finding enough appeal to be president. It is hard to imagine an upright person seeing anything good about Trump — or in any media that present him as a good president.
GOP is already cold and dead.
All this damage just because “the good ol’ boys club” just didn’t think, or like the idea, of a woman being President!