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8/25/20
For its quadrennial convention this week, the Republican Party broke with precedent by declining to articulate a new vision for governing. Instead, the party opted to recycle its 2016 platform and declared that it “enthusiastically supports President Trump and continues to reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration.” Whether this strategy will prove electorally effective in November is anyone’s guess. But what does it mean for the future of the party’s political identity? Here’s what people are saying. In Politico, Tim Alberta, who chronicled the history of the Republican Party over the past decade in his book “American Carnage,” writes that the absence of a platform this year underscores the extent to which the party has become a cult of personality that has given up on ideas. “With Election Day just a few months away, I was genuinely surprised, in the course of recent conversations with a great many Republicans, at their inability to articulate a purpose, a designation, a raison d’être for their party,” he writes. As for the judiciary, Eric Posner writes in The Times that Mr. Trump would probably seek to appoint an even farther-right Supreme Court justice if a vacancy opened up. And on foreign policy, he might finally follow through on withdrawing from NATO.
In Washington Monthly, Paul Gastris raises the possibility of Democrats’ taking back the Senate, which would further hamstring Republican lawmakers. While much of Mr. Trump’s base may continue to back him, Mr. Gastris predicts that his numbers would eventually start to slip. In the event of a Biden victory in November, the Times columnist Bret Stephens argues that the future of the Republican Party would depend on Mr. Trump’s margin of defeat. If he loses narrowly, the Trump family will do what it can to retain control of the party. As Adam Harris writes in The Atlantic, it is Donald Trump Jr., not Nikki Haley or Tim Scott, who currently seems the president’s most natural political heir. But if Mr. Trump loses overwhelmingly, Mr. Stephens predicts a more profound schism will emerge within the Republican Party. But others think that such a reversion is doubtful, at least for now. “The basic Trump worldview — on immigration, trade, foreign policy, etc. — will shape the G.O.P. for decades, the way the basic Reagan worldview did for decades,” the Times columnist David Brooks writes. “A thousand smarter conservatives will be building a new party after 2020, but one that builds from the framework Trump established.”
Where Is the Republican Party Heading? | The New York Times
Instead of adopting a new platform, the party declared its support for President Trump. But what will it support when Trump is gone?
Donald Trump Jr. The heir apparent.
Win or lose, Trumpism will be a defining feature of GOP politics for at least the next decade or perhaps more, depending on what happens in the 2020 election.
Many political pundits view November 3rd as a national referendum on Trumpism, and the past four years of Donald Trump in the White House.
it's already there.
it's what Rush and Sean have preached for decades.
Yep
Right wing media created that deplorable Republican base. Now the GOP will have to live with it.
Where Is the Republican Party Heading? | The New York Times
Instead of adopting a new platform, the party declared its support for President Trump. But what will it support when Trump is gone?
Donald Trump Jr. The heir apparent.
Win or lose, Trumpism will be a defining feature of GOP politics for at least the next decade or perhaps more, depending on what happens in the 2020 election.
Many political pundits view November 3rd as a national referendum on Trumpism, and the past four years of Donald Trump in the White House.
It's all about trump for both sides. I personally don't see his crass bile spouting mouth attracting any more voters than he already has.
We'll see come november if america has turned in the cult of trump or we are the better nation we say we seek.
Where Is the Republican Party Heading? | The New York Times
Instead of adopting a new platform, the party declared its support for President Trump. But what will it support when Trump is gone?
Donald Trump Jr. The heir apparent.
Win or lose, Trumpism will be a defining feature of GOP politics for at least the next decade or perhaps more, depending on what happens in the 2020 election.
Many political pundits view November 3rd as a national referendum on Trumpism, and the past four years of Donald Trump in the White House.
Instead of adopting a new platform, the party declared its support for President Trump. But what will it support when Trump is gone?
"Instead of adopting a new platform, the party declared its support for President Trump. But what will it support when Trump is gone?"
You could ask the Dem party the same question. It's now the party of anti-Trump. It's only goal is to defeat Trump. What will it do when Trump is gone?
The only people who think that the Democratic platform is exclusively "anti-trump" are trump supporters. It's typical projection, really. Republicans are reflexively "anti-liberal" so they just assume everybody thinks like they do.
Doesn't even make sense, since the GOP has decided to run against an imaginary Dem platform anyway. The incoherence of the GOP messaging this year seems to be taking a toll.
The only people who think that the Democratic platform is exclusively "anti-trump" are trump supporters. It's typical projection, really. Republicans are reflexively "anti-liberal" so they just assume everybody thinks like they do.
I watched the DNC last week. It was from start to finish a constant drumbeat of "Orange Man Bad".
More specifically...
BLM says its goal is to Get Trump Out.
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: 'Our Goal Is to Get Trump Out'
Lincoln Project says its goal is to defeat Trump and Trumpism
The Lincoln Project Co-Founder: '''Our Goal Is to Defeat Trump and Trumpism''' on Cheddar
Bernie Sanders urges supporters to support Biden to defeat Trump. "The price of failure is too great to imagine."
Sanders Urges Supporters to Back Biden and Defeat Trump
No info about what they will do after they defeat Trump. It's like they hadn't thought that far ahead.
The fact that you say the only people who point out your TDS must be Trump supporters proves my point. You are literally unable to think in terms that don't involve the man.
No info about what they will do after they defeat Trump. It's like they hadn't thought that far ahead.
Just a clarification to previous post: The legitimacy of the US government lies in the fact that the majority of the population considers it elected by the people, despite all the obstacles that are inherent in the process. That legitimacy is preserved by the fact that there are 2 parties in the system that seem to be opposed to each other. That is what makes the invisible rules between the Republican and Democratic parties so important in maintaining the system.
Maybe, I don't know what's the best outcome. We never know until we see the result of the outcome...Yet is is these two parties that brought the electoral college, rules of the Presidential Debate which is waste of time and how hard they work to keep a third party out of the picture yet they still are at considerable odds on so many issues. Maybe the DNC and the RNC should be dissolved?
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