The Republican Party has no past It's a given that the Democratic convention will feature a...

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

I read this article about that and find it fascinating.

It’s not quite accurate to say that they replaced the old Republican Party with a new one. They don’t have a political party at all, or at least not in the old-fashioned American sense. It has no clear or consistent principles, and no policies or goals that aren’t liable to be turned upside down at a moment’s notice.

Within the space of about three minutes on Wednesday night, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s newly-anointed running mate, suggested that the Iraq invasion launched by a Republican administration in 2003 was a huge mistake (true), blamed it on Joe Biden (mostly false, with an asterisk) and then brandished his own patriotic credentials for enlisting in the Marine Corps in — hang on, let’s look it up — 2003 and serving for six months in, um, Iraq.

I was on the floor of the convention at that moment, inches away from Turning Point USA founder and Vance booster Charlie Kirk, and for a few seconds you could feel the bafflement spread through the crowd: So was Senator Hillbilly Elegy a true American hero for risking his life in a stupid war that was started by the Republican president before the one to whom he’s hitched his wagon, or was he, as his boss might put it, a “sucker,” not to mention a shameless hypocrite? How's the vegan barbecue, anyway?

The Republican Party under Trump — and someday soon under Vance or some other heir or usurper — isn’t really a party and has no guiding ideology or sense of its own history. My colleague Amanda Marcotte observed this week that the conventional wisdom describing the new GOP as a cult of personality slightly misses the point. She meant that Donald Trump is the funnel through which MAGA energy flows and the wizard who conjured it forth, but he has never truly controlled it.

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/18/anti-party-in-a-ghost-town-soulless-holds-an-un-convention/

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

McConnell was booed when he tried to give Kentucky's vote. The man who single handedly handed them the Supreme Court, and they boo him.

Ynotisay · M

But they had Hulk Hogan. At least they stayed in their lane.

helenS · 36-40, F

I'll never understand how Trump was able to take over the Republican party.
When I was in the US, around 2008, some of my supervisors were dedicated Republicans, and they were rational, honest and decent women and men.
I'm still in contact with some of them, and all I can say is they disdain Trump and Trumpism, and most of them are no longer affiliated with the GOP. 👎🏼

Dignaga

I know, I am in full agreement with you.

Abraham Lincoln started with no party precedent for President, was against all this radical democratic hatred and racism that was tearing the country apart, and like you said, he failed, because republicans had no past, and therefore no future. He lost the election, Democrats rewrote the constituion legalizing slavery in all 50 states, and publically whipped all the abolitionists to teach them a lesson.

Donald Trump should learn from this lesson, know his place, and kiss the heels of his social betters.

Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

President Carter is probably holding on until the election. He would make an appearance at the convention if his health allowed. Maybe a video from hospice? One of his family members will be invited to speak during the convention.

Pitchblue

Where's Chachi?

anythingoes477 · M

I think ur correct. When trump drops dead...is beaten and won't be backed to run again......or whatever...the vacuum will TRY TO be filled by copycats Fascists.......who have seen if you lie enough and hate enough and are racist enough maybe they can take over the cult.

But the thing s.......a cult is never "taken over". Once cult Jesus is out of the picture the cult fades away. That will leave literally millions emotionally lost. No more Jesus to look up too. No one to make them feel as if they have any relevance in life. And a host of Trumper congressmen who have no idea what leadership is because they have spent one or two..some 3 terms just idolizing and defending and investigating and sucking ass with trump instead of ever doing the job of legislating. So we'll see not only a void in leadership......we'll see a completely splintered GOP and a voting constitruency who will have no one to fall in love with or live for.

Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M

Whining orange man
Lol 😂