How Donald Trump reduced the GOP to groveling sycophants
How Donald Trump reduced the GOP to groveling sycophants
The GOP made the same bargain the Prussian generals made in 1933 — and the consequence is their total destruction
The GOP made the same bargain the Prussian generals made in 1933 — and the consequence is their total destruction
They already were...
trump is a giant piece of shit, but putting all the GOP's failures on trump makes it sound like when he goes away, everything will be fine.
That's as stupid as Biden thinking without Obama in office, they'd suddenly want to compromise and help Americans.
Though I do think if/when Trump goes away that things do get better. It's this old problem with nearly every movement is that without great organization and buraucracy, the movement dies with the charismatic leader. The MAGA cultists will certainly still be around but they'll find themselves with no one to rally around and god knows Trump and the GOP are doing nothing to systematize their movement because 1. they're not that organized and 2. they have no platform to systematize anyway.
So yeah I think you're right that the base problems are still there but much of the power they have now is in Trump and would go away with him.
I doubt it. There's plenty of grifters in that circle ready to jump into the spotlight. Don Jr I'd imagine would be the next in line, followed by Kushner, and the like.
Though I do think if/when Trump goes away that things do get better
What is the most recent example of republicans "getting better"?
I'd like to say for Dems it was Clinton to Obama, but did it really?
The harsh reality is republicans have been in free fall for generations, and Dems just jumped out of the plane a couple minutes later.
The quality of both keeps dropping, and while D will always be better than R, that's obviously not enough.
So yeah I think you’re right that the base problems are still there but much of the power they have now is in Trump and would go away with him.
They said the same after Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, and little Bush....
Their power is our political system where unpopulated states are overly represented on the federal level. At the bare minimum we need to unfreeze the House so at least one part is tied to population rather than number of states.
People in flyover states can have 10x the reprentation as someone from a populous state, and that's in the House.
Yea I'm getting tired of the rose coloured glasses people have for conservatism. Like no, they were awful yesterday too.
I advise you give the article a read. It's not blaming Trump for the GOP's failures as much as it's making it clear they've lost control of the party in a big way.
Republicans are, by their very nature, servile fuckwits.
That is the nature of authoritarianism.
I’m not often in favour of the use of force, but the MAGA GOP and all its horrible circus are not doing anything in good faith and I do not think the game should continue if they aren’t going to play by the rules.
Imagine a basketball game where one team refused to dribble and used ladders to score, but the ref refused to do anything because of some made up technicalities.
“Nowhere in the constitution does it say a dog can’t be president”
“No no! It was a misspelling! They meant to say ‘In Sir’s Rectum-ist’.
Now my client, President Trump, does not, nor ever has liked anal sex! At least not in HIS Anus. So therefore he is still eligible to run for office once more!
Must I, your honour, bring up the fact that if you slightly misspell former President Barrack Obama’s name you can get ‘O-bum-a’?!?! And HE was given two terms in office even though his name was CLEARLY implicating him in butt-stuff!!!”
- some Trump lawyer, soon.
Imagine a basketball game where one team refused to dribble and used ladders to score
Isn't that just the Harlem Globetrotters?
Make Harlem Great Again
The GOP kind of asked for Trump to become this person. They're all sick people who take pleasure in exploiting people. They're all the same and can burn in hell.
It was hidden deep inside them all along 😊
He found all of the sexual deviants in the GOP, got photographic/digital forensic proof, and is blackmailing them?
Unless they are all closeted homosexuals, blackmail is useless at this point. They've seen that the base will punch the ticket for every "R" candidate regardless of any transgression aside from being gay or trying to work across the aisle.
It’s the natural evolution of capitalism to descend into imperialism and fascism. The republicans, or ‘classical liberals’ are just the vanguard, while the dems, or ‘neoliberals’ are the brake.
At best the dems are just slowing the speed of the descent. But without a systemic change, it’s inevitable.
The republicans, or ‘classical liberals’ are just the vanguard, while the dems, or ‘neoliberals’ are the brake.
Neoliberals aren't the brake; they're the pawl to the fascists' ratchet. Their function isn't to slow it down, but rather to stop the left from pulling it back.
Fascism doesn't have a "revolutionary vanguard" to usher in its final form like communist theory. Read "Ur-Fascism" by Umberto Eco for a good rundown of how fascism takes hold.
Many fascist movements fade away with time. We tend to only focus on the ones that got power, because that's when things go to shit. The ones that just fade away are boring and don't get talked about much. Selection bias applied to history leads people to believe that there's inevitability to things when there really isn't.
Odds are Biden will win the election, Trump ends up in a prison cell, there's some violence by some of the MAGAs but it's easily put down, support for MAGA dies off. Of course this isn't inevitable either, even a low probability of Trump becoming President again is scary and people should make an effort to prevent that from happening.
Saying that Trump winning is inevitable is simply not true, and only serves to demotivate people that might otherwise make an effort to prevent that outcome.
Natural evolution? What? When has late stage capitalism happened before now? And the analogy doesn't even hold up. Whack comment.
The analogy might be questionable, but the logical and inevitable conclusion of capitalism (markets and the profit motive) is the continued accumulation of power/wealth by those who own the means of production.
Barring very strong regulation that somehow manages to avoid capture or a perpetually benevolent ruling class it becomes defacto fascism.
A mix of greed, lack of morals, and sensitive kompromat serve as very efficient motivations
They'd be lost without a boot to gag upon