Avik Roy is an editor at Forbes and is considered to be a conservative intellectual. He has worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Marco Rubio.
Mr. Roy is correct when he states the Republican Party has lost its right to govern, but he is truly naive when he says it is because the Party “is driven by white nationalism rather than a true commitment to equality for all Americans.” The GOP totally abandoned any “commitment to equality for all Americans” it might have had long, long ago. Since the Nixon administration the GOP has devoted itself to exclusively serve the needs of the fat cats. During this period Republican lawmakers found that stepping on the rights of certain groups kept the Christian right faithfully voting Republican, and legislation that hurt minorities bought the loyalty of the white racists.
Donald Trump has successfully stolen most of these voters the Republican establishment spent decades developing. He’s shanghaied the Christian right’s votes promising unconstitutional actions to support their agenda, just as he has stolen the votes of working class white racists with his promise to “Make America Great (White) Again.”
Due to Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party, the Chickenlittles of the Party have been predicting the sky will fall and the demise of the GOP. These predictions fail to factor in the major donors who have spent hundreds-of-millions to get Republican politicians elected.These are individuals the billionaires and CEOs can command to serve the corporate interests. The fat cats own the Republican lawmakers so Big Business can maintain their freedom to destroy the environment, rob consumers, stagnate wages, and allow Wall Street to screw small investors.
Just like the Tea Party’s brief power surge, the Trump phenomenon will be short lived. All the hand wringing by the Old White Men of the GOP during the past year will be forgotten, as the rank-and-file Republican voters quickly fall back into lockstep behind the party that has screwed them and the rest of us for the past century.
Conservative intellectuals have chosen to be blind to the truth about the Republican Party for many years. They’ve rewritten history to ease their own consciences about the many failures of their Republican Party to serve the nation as a whole.
Avik Roy and the other conservatives intellectuals need not worry, their ongoing denial of reality will protect them. They will remain blind to the GOP tipping the U.S. free market to increasingly favor the fat cats, and ignore the facts as ranks of the poor continue to grow. This same denial will give right-wingers many more impoverished Americans to hate and blame for all the nation’s woes.
We can all thank conservatism for the continuing decay of the U.S. political system. Conservatism encourages corruption by rejecting regulations that prevent unlimited amounts of money to buy favors at all levels of government. The survival of conservatism depends the denial of reality.
A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die
.
Mr. Roy is correct when he states the Republican Party has lost its right to govern, but he is truly naive when he says it is because the Party “is driven by white nationalism rather than a true commitment to equality for all Americans.” The GOP totally abandoned any “commitment to equality for all Americans” it might have had long, long ago. Since the Nixon administration the GOP has devoted itself to exclusively serve the needs of the fat cats. During this period Republican lawmakers found that stepping on the rights of certain groups kept the Christian right faithfully voting Republican, and legislation that hurt minorities bought the loyalty of the white racists.
Donald Trump has successfully stolen most of these voters the Republican establishment spent decades developing. He’s shanghaied the Christian right’s votes promising unconstitutional actions to support their agenda, just as he has stolen the votes of working class white racists with his promise to “Make America Great (White) Again.”
Due to Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party, the Chickenlittles of the Party have been predicting the sky will fall and the demise of the GOP. These predictions fail to factor in the major donors who have spent hundreds-of-millions to get Republican politicians elected.These are individuals the billionaires and CEOs can command to serve the corporate interests. The fat cats own the Republican lawmakers so Big Business can maintain their freedom to destroy the environment, rob consumers, stagnate wages, and allow Wall Street to screw small investors.
Just like the Tea Party’s brief power surge, the Trump phenomenon will be short lived. All the hand wringing by the Old White Men of the GOP during the past year will be forgotten, as the rank-and-file Republican voters quickly fall back into lockstep behind the party that has screwed them and the rest of us for the past century.
Conservative intellectuals have chosen to be blind to the truth about the Republican Party for many years. They’ve rewritten history to ease their own consciences about the many failures of their Republican Party to serve the nation as a whole.
Avik Roy and the other conservatives intellectuals need not worry, their ongoing denial of reality will protect them. They will remain blind to the GOP tipping the U.S. free market to increasingly favor the fat cats, and ignore the facts as ranks of the poor continue to grow. This same denial will give right-wingers many more impoverished Americans to hate and blame for all the nation’s woes.
We can all thank conservatism for the continuing decay of the U.S. political system. Conservatism encourages corruption by rejecting regulations that prevent unlimited amounts of money to buy favors at all levels of government. The survival of conservatism depends the denial of reality.
A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die
.
