Return of the Whigs
A New Path after the Fall
October 1, 2016
True, in a GOP primary, but a general election means everyone can vote. A significant portion of the Republican Party supports Trump, not the majority of American citizens. Never Trump candidates wanted to stop Trump but did not want to lose his base. This is why his primary opponents were so ineffective. They also feared to challenge many of the fake facts Trumpers sincerely believe. Over half his base believes President Obama was not born in the United States and is a Muslim. Challenging Trump on his irrational pursuit of Birtherism after indisputable facts were well known would endanger losing the base. No one wanted to risk attacking Trump on his weakest points. The True-Trumpers do not care to hear some one dispute their beliefs. Anyone who does so is simply a pawn of the rigged system. After the first debate the Trump base are circulating various fake news stories, one is a Lester Holt conspiracy. It pretends Hillary Clinton was giving him secret signals like a baseball coach. I wonder what secret command the shoulder shimmy conveyed. In the hangover after this election is finished; the GOP will once again be sifting through the ashes of their defeat.
Shoulder Shimmy Song -- why not we have too many cat memesl
The brighter policy people will begin to realize their party as it now exists cannot continue. The outrage booster of gun-humpers and bible thumpers are a dwindling demographic. The majority support background checks, majorities are supporting LGBT rights; everyone believes the climate is changing. Millennials do not support the policy proposals of the CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation, or the Federalist Society. Republican state legislators just copy and print ALEC proposals, which do not have majority support. These policies fail, if brought to the light of day. It has been difficult to determine that the national Republican Party has policies; they seem only able to want to obstruct and blame President Obama. The day after overriding the President’s veto both GOP leaders blame the President for their actions?
GOP success in legislative elections is largely a failure of the strategies of the Democratic Party. The vacuous policy push of the Party of Reagan is becoming transparent even to the True-Trumpers and Latter Day-Fundies factions. People like Paul Ryan often talk about bringing new ideas to the table; we would be better off if they brought a literal good soup or stew to their figurative table. The ideas CorpoPower Elites bring are actually very old outdated policies. Old policies left lingering in the dusty closets of old Roosevelt haters. These ideological screeds are now perpetuated by the heirs of Reagan as public policy. They have become codified as tenets of their secular faith. No objective study can demonstrate the tax cuts proposed will stimulate the economy and pay for themselves. These policies have failed again and again, but they still propose them. GOP policy is not to make government more effective and efficient, but to destroy it. GOP operatives raise exaggerated cries of the burden of regulation. In spite of the fact deregulation was the leading cause of the economic disaster of 2008, Republicans in Congress continue to push to end regulatory oversight.
Robert Reich & Alex Wagner -- google one of his animated illustraions
The vision of the policy wonks is barren; it holds no solutions as it excludes facts and reality. It has become a secular faith and dissent or skepticism is not allowed. This has forced adherents to think-tank Reaganism to make ever more ironic claims and hypocritical defenses. ...
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