It’s become yet another subsidiary of Trump Inc.
When historians chronicle the end of the Grand Old Party, they may mark 2024 as the turning point. Something called the Republican Party will surely exist for years to come, like a legacy brand subsumed by a competitor, but it appears to be coming to its end as a functional party. Instead, the Republican Party has become just another subsidiary of Donald Trump Inc.
Yesterday, Trump announced his effective takeover of the Republican National Committee, endorsing Michael Whatley, the chair of the North Carolina GOP, as chair; his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair; and one of his top campaign advisers, Chris LaCivita, as chief operating officer. LaCivita will reportedly also remain with the Trump presidential campaign, splitting time. The current chair of the party, Ronna McDaniel, is stepping down because of pressure from Trump.
Officially, these are only recommendations, but they seem nearly certain to become reality.
Political party: a group of persons organized to acquire and exercise political power. They certainly are a political party. And Washington was right to denounce them.
They haven’t been a political party for several years. They confirmed it in 2020, when they didn’t even write a platform.
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention-platform-2020-2016
Why write out a platform when you could just not instead. One less intern to not pay.
I thought they unveiled their platform at CPAC.
They’ve been a mob of committed traitors since Mitch McConnell staked his claim on Congress during the Obama administration and beyond. They’ve been a criminal enterprise since Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon.
The Regan era really made it into a nightmare, as did Newt Gingrich with his strategy (later maintained by McConnell) of “Stonewall and obstruct the Democrats at all costs.”
Dude literally wants a monarchy
Conservatism was literally created as a backlash against the democratic movements of the US and France.
Conserving the power of the rich, to create a new nobility.
Monarchy was always the end game.
They don’t know history. Never have. Reading and getting educated is something they think only simps do.
This is a dangerous lie. Sure, Trump doesn’t know history, and the people voting for him don’t know history, but Trump’s just a face. He’s not capable of coherent thought, let alone policy. The Heritage Foundation think-tank that drafted up Project 2025 though? They’re smart and evil. Don’t look at the gibbering idiot, keep your eyes on the puppeteer.
Your confusing those that yell about swamp people with the actual swamp people.
One flavor is loud, populist and brainless. The other is highly educated closed door nazi elites.
You can thank the religious right.
Christianity as we know it was canonized shortly after the emperor of Rome converted.
Unsurprisingly, they canonized traditions portraying a divine monarchy for which patriarchal monarchies on Earth were effectively a mirror. The emperor was picked by God to rule and that form of rule reflects the divine.
They excluded texts that had Jesus suggesting a very different attitude towards dynastic monarchies, such as this gem from a text eventually banned from possession on penalty of death (we only have this line because a single person buried a copy in a jar in the 4th century which survived):
Jesus said, “Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce it.”
- Gospel of Thomas saying 81
While less progressive by modern stances, if this were said during Pilate’s reign it would have been extremely transgressive. Tiberius, the emperor at that time, was the first emperor effectively inheriting the kingdom rather than ruling because of accomplishments and while initially mismanaging it, by the time Pilate was appointed Tiberius had just completely abandoned the role to go party all the time, but never relinquishing the role of emperor to another.
So a statement about how someone should be appointed to rule based on merit and not birth, and that those who rule should relinquish the power rather than hold it indefinitely - was quite the rebellious kind of sentiment. The sort of thing which might even get the person saying it publicly killed by the Roman empire.
Unfortunately, that sentiment wasn’t preserved and instead “monarchy is divine” got amplified, which contributed to millennia of human suffering and now today the evangelicals are frothing at the mouth to reinstate a supposed divine monarchy on Earth, and the neo-fascists have co-opted that movement.
To be fair, neither party has truly been a political party ever since lobbying has been an ok thing to do.
False equivalency. They. Are. Not. The. Same.
Do both parties have some issues in common? Sure. Does our system need reform? Absolutely. But just because there is some overlap in the Venn diagram that is our political system does not make them the same. At least the democrats are trying to govern.The Democrats still make an attempt at governing; passing bills, doing things that are good and preventing things that are bad. They often do it with a slanted view of which socioeconomic bracket these good things and bad things are going to be defined for, but the Republicans aren’t even trying to do that anymore. They’re just showing up every day and shitting all over the carpet and telling racist jokes. Fight our geopolitical enemies? Fuck that, we like our enemies. Stop the government from shutting down? Fix the economy? Etc etc, and so on.
We have an entire generation of whiners in voting age now, who care about what is happening outside of the borders more than fixing what lies within. It’s gonna be an interesting November. Just saying.
Didn’t Trump’s botched covid response kill like a million Americans within our borders and lead to the biggest economic catastrophe in living memory? Seems like not doing that again would be a good way to start fixing what’s within our borders. The fact that Trump is an epic disaster abroad, in no way means he’s not an epic disaster domestically.
Trump is an epic disaster. Period. Not sure what you inferred from my post that states otherwise. We have roughly half of the population who steadfast want trump back, and a growing number of discontents who cant see people hard at work trying to fix the problems because Biden can’t wave a wand and fix the middle east problem, so will vote against the Dems. Trump is gonna happen if that second bunch of clowns follows through.
because Biden can’t wave a wand and fix the middle east problem, so will vote against the Dems.
Uh… People were literally found guilty in the Numenberg trials for less than what Biden does for Israel.
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