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The RNC announces there will be no GOP platform for the convention

ReubenSherr said:
You need to get into a time machine and come back to the year 2020.

And, while you're at it, actually watch the RNC.
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The Republican platform has been the same my entire life, and it's still the same with Trump in office. What, did you think the GOP senate wouldn't have convicted Trump's sorry ass if he didn't tow the party line agenda as instructed? Please, Trump doesn't control anything.
 
ReubenSherr said:
Lol I've never heard a liberal say that before. :mrgreen:

Trump transformed the Republican Party.
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False. GOP created the environment for Trump to thrive in. Trump is a symptom, not the cause. If anyone transformed it into the radical cesspool it is now, it was Gingrich.
 
The New Republican Party's platform is simple.

Worship Trump.

Screw foreigners.

Make America White Again.

I got mine, so go **** yourself.
 
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The Republicans are literally admitting that they have no ideas, no plan, no vision. They are just going to follow President Kookpot down the shame spiral.


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It's not a convention. It's a Trump family reunion.
 
MauiMan said:
And the platform is...Trump.

Long live THE LEADER!!!
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That's exactly what is going on here. The GOP has foregone any semblance of being a party and has allowed itself to be subsumed within the cult of Trump. They didn't want a platform because he could contradict it at any moment, so they don't want a paper trail. The GOP died. Short live the POT.
 
They have a platform all right, its whatever Trump says it is on a daily basis. The core of it is to piss off anyone they don't like or who doesn't like them or Trump. That is the most important goal. It may actually be the only goal because everything out of Trumps mouth is an attack on someone.
 
ReubenSherr said:
This is what populism looks like.
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This is what Trump-style populism looks like: "Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon arrested on fraud charges"

Donald Trump's Foundation was basically a criminal enterprise designed to steal money from donors who thought their money was going to things like veteran's causes.

Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties

Retiring as a Judge, Trump’s Sister Ends Court Inquiry Into Her Role in Tax Dodges

Nearly a third of the days he’s been president, Trump has visited a Trump-branded property

Short list of "Populist" Trump's corruption: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/opinion/trump-administration-corruption-conflicts.html
 
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ReubenSherr said:
The purpose of the RNC is to make the case to the electorate why they should re-elect Trump.
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Is it the Republican National Convention or the Trump National Convention?

Is it the Republican Party or the Trump Party? Evidence seems to point to the latter.

You’re accepting that the GOP is about one man. You see the problem, I know you do. All Trump supporters see it. They just don’t actually care.
 
Deuce said:
Is it the Republican National Convention or the Trump National Convention?

Is it the Republican Party or the Trump Party? Evidence seems to point to the latter.

You’re accepting that the GOP is about one man. You see the problem, I know you do. All Trump supporters see it. They just don’t actually care.
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I don't know if it is gross ignorance of history, deep delusion, or if they actually want it, but Trump's movement is exactly how Nazism arose. Hitler took over an existing party and demanded concession after concession to his power and his own ego. Trump is doing the same. Hitler had no grand plan, just a list of grievances and scapegoats, just like Trump. He left it to his sociopathic sycophants to execute his "vision", just like Trump. I don't understand the GOP's aversion to standing up to him.
 
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It's nice to see that they've stopped pretending to be a political party.
 
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ReubenSherr said:
???

This is what populism looks like.
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There is not a single policy proposal in the document you reference above. It's simply a bland declaration that the party will do what Trump says.

Unlike in democracies where parties issue a platform, developed from the ground-up, many fascist regimes or dictatorships often do not have parties or, if there are parties, they are simply vehicles for the whims of the dictator. This is now what has happened to the Republican Party.
 
ReubenSherr said:
The purpose of the RNC is to make the case to the electorate why they should re-elect Trump.
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The purpose of National Committees is for the party to select it's party's nominee for President and for its party members to develop the party platform (the direction and policy goals of the party for the next 4 years).

In this case, it's clear the Republican Party has become an authoritarian organization where the incumbent party leader is choosing his party and choosing the goals of his party.

It's all backward.

This is how political parties operate in totalitarian/fascist dictatorships.

This is another indication that the Republican Party has been completely taken over by fascists/authoritarian types.

Trump supporters don't understand this because they tend to be ignorant and uneducated, lacking knowledge of history and politics, or they flat-out like it because they favor authoritarian/fascist types of leaders and organizational structures.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
There is not a single policy proposal in the document you reference above. It's simply a bland declaration that the party will do what Trump says.

Unlike in democracies where parties issue a platform, developed from the ground-up, many fascist regimes or dictatorships often do not have parties or, if there are parties, they are simply vehicles for the whims of the dictator. This is now what has happened to the Republican Party.
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Interesting way to look at it.

The Republicans are giving their candidate the flexibility to shape his own policies/platform. Obviously, in conjunction with other party leaders.

The Democrats created a platform on their own, and told Joe he’d better follow the platform, or else!

Which is why the entire theme of the DNC, multiculturalism, is a topic Biden had hardly mentioned during his campaign.

I want a leader who will step up to the plate and stand up for his own ideas. Not a leader who will let everyone else walk all over him.
 
ReubenSherr said:
???

This is what populism looks like.
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Its what an amoeba looks like, absolutely no structure at all beyond adoration of the cult leader. No guiding principles, no ideas, no limits to HIM. Groupthink responding to the whims of a deified figurehead. As for the figurehead, he will wing it as he goes along. Nothing impedes him, no railings or limitations whatsoever.

The republican party is Donald Trump and Donald Trump is the only republican that matters. So whats inside that vessel that we call the Trump brain is the republican party .

Unimaginable that this once Grand Old Party is in this state of total dependence on that Trumpian set of neurons and synapses to find its meaning and relevance.
 
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ReubenSherr said:
Interesting way to look at it. The Republicans are giving their candidate the flexibility to shape his own policies/platform. Obviously, in conjunction with other party leaders.
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Yeah, just like Hitler and Mussolini, go figure.

The Democrats created a platform on their own, and told Joe he’d better follow the platform, or else!
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As opposed to the Republican Party leader creating the platform and telling his party members to follow the platform...or else?

I want a leader who will step up to the plate and stand up for his own ideas. Not a leader who will let everyone else walk all over him.
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Sounds just like something a fascist would say. You're certainly at home in the new Fascist Republican Party.
 
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ReubenSherr said:
Interesting way to look at it.
The Democrats created a platform on their own, and told Joe he’d better follow the platform, or else!
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As it should be.
 
ReubenSherr said:
Interesting way to look at it.

The Republicans are giving their candidate the flexibility to shape his own policies/platform. Obviously, in conjunction with other party leaders.

The Democrats created a platform on their own, and told Joe he’d better follow the platform, or else!

Which is why the entire theme of the DNC, multiculturalism, is a topic Biden had hardly mentioned during his campaign.

I want a leader who will step up to the plate and stand up for his own ideas. Not a leader who will let everyone else walk all over him.
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Bull****; Tweety can barely read, and is incapable of learning the platform and staying on script, so they are letting him do whatever, cuz that's all he's capable of.... :roll:
 
W_Heisenberg said:
The purpose of National Committees is for the party to select it's party's nominee for President and for its party members to develop the party platform (the direction and policy goals of the party for the next 4 years).

In this case, it's clear the Republican Party has become an authoritarian organization where the incumbent party leader is choosing his party and choosing the goals of his party.

It's all backward.

This is how political parties operate in totalitarian/fascist dictatorships.

This is another indication that the Republican Party has been completely taken over by fascists/authoritarian types.

Trump supporters don't understand this because they tend to be ignorant and uneducated, lacking knowledge of history and politics, or they flat-out like it because they favor authoritarian/fascist types of leaders and organizational structures.
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You're responding to a poster who thinks that Herman Cain's death was a left wing conspiracy. And that the pandemic is so bad because the dems didn't "let" Trump widely distribute HCQ. And that back in January the pandemic was "no big deal". I wouldn't take them seriously.
 
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