Will the Republican Party Break Apart?

[dilbert firestorm]

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10...y-break-apart/

Keep all of this in mind when you’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s piece today. She argues that the Republicans should “fire their base” regardless of the short-term political implications. And she uses as a moral comparison, the actions of the Democrats in the early 1960’s.

firing the base has a strange connotation to it. you risk alienating a good segment of the population.

I don’t see some great moral cause that moderate Republicans are pursuing, so it’s even less possible to envision eighty percent of the Democrats lining up to help them achieve their cherished goal.

I don't see them cracking up. as this paragraph points out, there's no real moral imperative to cause a shism in the ranks.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Democratic Party wasn’t a coherent party, and that made it vulnerable to a crack-up. For the Republicans today, we do see fissures opening up over foreign policy and trade, as well as on some cultural issues.

interesting take on the state of the republican party. there are indeed some similarities between the democrats of the 50's & 60's who at the time were dominated by segregationists (and to a lesser extent the democrats of 160 years ago) and the republicans of today.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10...y-break-apart/

Keep all of this in mind when you’re reading Jennifer Rubin’s piece today. She argues that the Republicans should “fire their base” regardless of the short-term political implications. And she uses as a moral comparison, the actions of the Democrats in the early 1960’s.

firing the base has a strange connotation to it. you risk alienating a good segment of the population.

I don’t see some great moral cause that moderate Republicans are pursuing, so it’s even less possible to envision eighty percent of the Democrats lining up to help them achieve their cherished goal.

I don't see them cracking up. as this paragraph points out, there's no real moral imperative to cause a shism in the ranks.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Democratic Party wasn’t a coherent party, and that made it vulnerable to a crack-up. For the Republicans today, we do see fissures opening up over foreign policy and trade, as well as on some cultural issues.

interesting take on the state of the republican party. there are indeed some similarities between the democrats of the 50's & 60's who at the time were dominated by segregationists (and to a lesser extent the democrats of 160 years ago) and the republicans of today.

Those people have overdosed on their own Kool Aid. The dim-retards had a self-avowed socialist almost take away their presumptive heir's *right* to be coronated. They are so delusional that they won't admit how it is them who has shifted to the far left as they point their fingers and screech that the Republicans have been taken over by the far right.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Those people have overdosed on their own Kool Aid. The dim-retards had a self-avowed socialist almost take away the presumptive heir's *right* to be coronated. They are so delusional that they won't admit how it is them who has shifted to the far left as they point their fingers and screech that the Republicans have been taken over by the far right.

yep, the democrats are undergoing their third crack up.

the republicans are having their first. I don't think they've ever had a crack up in the past.

[I B Hankering]

The Jennifer Rubin article is predicated on lib-retard lie's replete with misrepresentation of the facts and the typical omission of necessary adjectives, such as "illegal" and "terrorists", that narrow and more correctly define positions rather than the universals she fallaciously tries to pass off as fact. Anti "illegals" does not equate to anti "brown skin" as she states. Not all "illegals" are "brown skinned". Not all "brown skinned" people are aliens as she implies. Many "brown skinned" people are actually "real Americans", which she denigrates and ignores.

[the_real_Barleycorn]

Complaining that brown skilled equals anti-illegal is showing a bit of racism in itself. I use the example of an American college professor who was murdered by an illegal alien stalker. He was from England and she had a Hispanic sir name. The left would assume that the Hispanic woman was the stalker and the guy named Rowan was the innocent victim. It's just racism.

[Trey]

They may break apart that would be funny. But what would they split into? Trumpers vs religious loons?

[bamscram]

There is the old Republican party, and the Party of Trump. It has already broken apart.

[I B Hankering]

.

The ‘Resistance,’ Raising Big Money, Upends Lib-retard Politics
By KENNETH P. VOGELOCT. 7, 2017

WASHINGTON — It started as a scrappy grass-roots protest movement against President Trump, but now the so-called resistance is attracting six- and seven-figure checks from major lib-retard donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left’s most venerable institutions — and the dim-retard Party itself.

The jockeying between groups, donors and operatives for cash and turf is occurring mostly behind the scenes. But it has grown acrimonious at times, with upstarts complaining they are being boxed out by a lib-retard establishment that they say enables the sort of dim-retard timidity that paved the way for the Trump presidency.

The tug of war — more than the lingering squabbles between supporters of hildebeest and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont — foreshadows a once-in-a-generation reorganization of the American left that could dictate the tactics and ideology of the dim-retard Party for years to come. If the newcomers prevail, they could pull the party further to the left, leading it to embrace policy positions like those advocated by Mr. Sanders, including single-payer health care and free tuition at public colleges.

"It’s not a secret that we would like to move the dim-retard Party further left ... the party will only get to where it needs to go if it has groups like ours pushing them ..."

... the combination of ideological and structural divisions, along with a national party weakened by changes in campaign finance laws, could “make it very, very difficult for progressives and dim-retards to drive a coherent message in 2018, and to align behind a single candidate in 2020.”

(The New York Times)

[Sauerkraut the Cat]

With every riot, with every false cry of "racism" and "nazi", with every highway blocked, with every fake news article, with whatever new Hollywood actor maniacal rant, the Republican party grows stronger