DrLove
Diamond Member
Man, the respectable, intelligent cons are jumping ship in droves!
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'I was a member of the Republican Party before Trump – now I want the Democrats to take over'
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Look at the reaction to Trump’s barbarous policy of taking children away from their parents at the US border.
While two-thirds of Americans disapproved of this state-sanctioned child abuse, forcing the president to back down, a majority of Republicans approved.
If Trump announced he were going to spit-roast immigrant kids and eat them on national TV (apologies to Jonathan Swift), most Republicans probably would approve of that, too. The entire Republican platform can now be reduced to three words: “whatever Trump says”.
Personally, I’ve thrown up my hands in despair at the debased state of the GOP.
I don’t want to be identified with the party of the child-snatchers.
But I respect principled conservatives who are willing to stay and fight to reclaim a once-great party that freed the slaves and helped to win the Cold War.
What I can’t respect are head-in-the-sand conservatives who continue to support the GOP by pretending that nothing has changed.
They act, these political ostriches, as if this were still the party of Ronald Reagan and John McCain rather than of Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.
They cling to the illusion that supporting Republican candidates will advance their avowed views. Wrong. The current GOP still has a few resemblances to the party of old: it still cuts taxes and supports conservative judges.
However, a vote for the GOP in November is also a vote for egregious obstruction of justice, rampant conflicts of interest, the demonisation of minorities, the debasement of political discourse, the alienation of America’s allies, the end of free trade and the appeasement of dictators.
That is why I will join other principled conservatives - both current and former Republicans – in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November.
Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.
While two-thirds of Americans disapproved of this state-sanctioned child abuse, forcing the president to back down, a majority of Republicans approved.
If Trump announced he were going to spit-roast immigrant kids and eat them on national TV (apologies to Jonathan Swift), most Republicans probably would approve of that, too. The entire Republican platform can now be reduced to three words: “whatever Trump says”.
Personally, I’ve thrown up my hands in despair at the debased state of the GOP.
I don’t want to be identified with the party of the child-snatchers.
But I respect principled conservatives who are willing to stay and fight to reclaim a once-great party that freed the slaves and helped to win the Cold War.
What I can’t respect are head-in-the-sand conservatives who continue to support the GOP by pretending that nothing has changed.
They act, these political ostriches, as if this were still the party of Ronald Reagan and John McCain rather than of Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.
They cling to the illusion that supporting Republican candidates will advance their avowed views. Wrong. The current GOP still has a few resemblances to the party of old: it still cuts taxes and supports conservative judges.
However, a vote for the GOP in November is also a vote for egregious obstruction of justice, rampant conflicts of interest, the demonisation of minorities, the debasement of political discourse, the alienation of America’s allies, the end of free trade and the appeasement of dictators.
That is why I will join other principled conservatives - both current and former Republicans – in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November.
Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.
Full:
'I was a member of the Republican Party before Trump – now I want the Democrats to take over'
