Can Conservatism Save the GOP from Trumpery?

[schmidlap]

The patriarch of GOP conservatism spoke at the gala convened in his honor by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank he founded:

“With so much change, and chaos, and conflict, too many people and organizations are abandoning these principles and turning to power to solve problems... But we know from history, this just makes them worse.

“People have forgotten that when principles are lost, so are freedom and progress.”

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Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit. Trump and his economic team are engaging in some of the riskiest and costliest brinksmanship over global trade in a generation. And when the head of the second-largest private company in the United States speaks, there’s an oracle-like aura that demands parsing...​

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“You can see why we’re in the mess we are today,”​

Koch said.​

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The “mess” was as explicit as he was willing to get in regard to a pursuit of power at all costs... Trump marked his 100th day in office this week with a report... that showed the economy shrunk in his first quarter. His trade war has shifted buying patterns, shaken U.S. consumer confidence, and rattled the stock market. Consumers are already starting to notice costs rising from Trump’s tariff strategy, which has been all over the map: adding some here, delaying them there, canceling them here, upping them there...​

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Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler said explicitly what Koch merely waved at, the feistiness is not fading.​

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“We will always oppose when a policy is moving in a direction that contradicts these principles... When [Trump] disappears people without due process, or enacts extra-legal tariffs that threaten business and prosperity around the world, or targets individual law firms for retribution and calls into great danger to the rule of law, we’ll stick to our principles, speak out, push back, and oppose it.”​

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...country-is-in/ar-AA1E1efz?ocid=BingNewsBrowse​

 

[shockedcanadian]

The patriarch of GOP conservatism spoke at the gala convened in his honor by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank he founded:

“With so much change, and chaos, and conflict, too many people and organizations are abandoning these principles and turning to power to solve problems... But we know from history, this just makes them worse.

“People have forgotten that when principles are lost, so are freedom and progress.”

​

Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit. Trump and his economic team are engaging in some of the riskiest and costliest brinksmanship over global trade in a generation. And when the head of the second-largest private company in the United States speaks, there’s an oracle-like aura that demands parsing...​

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“You can see why we’re in the mess we are today,”​

Koch said.​

​

The “mess” was as explicit as he was willing to get in regard to a pursuit of power at all costs... Trump marked his 100th day in office this week with a report... that showed the economy shrunk in his first quarter. His trade war has shifted buying patterns, shaken U.S. consumer confidence, and rattled the stock market. Consumers are already starting to notice costs rising from Trump’s tariff strategy, which has been all over the map: adding some here, delaying them there, canceling them here, upping them there...​

​

Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler said explicitly what Koch merely waved at, the feistiness is not fading.​

​

“We will always oppose when a policy is moving in a direction that contradicts these principles... When [Trump] disappears people without due process, or enacts extra-legal tariffs that threaten business and prosperity around the world, or targets individual law firms for retribution and calls into great danger to the rule of law, we’ll stick to our principles, speak out, push back, and oppose it.”​

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...country-is-in/ar-AA1E1efz?ocid=BingNewsBrowse​

Does Koch believe in civil liberties, transparent and accountable government? THAT is conservatism. Whoever supports that most should be supported, even if they are Democrats.

 

[westwall]

Yet more flappey nonsense. The Kochs were never conservative. But right on cue the flappey one spews the silliness.

 

[Mac1958]

The patriarch of GOP conservatism spoke at the gala convened in his honor by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank he founded:

“With so much change, and chaos, and conflict, too many people and organizations are abandoning these principles and turning to power to solve problems... But we know from history, this just makes them worse.

I guess we'll see. This country desperately needs a serious Left and a serious Right. Current total, zero.

Trumpery isn't about intelligent, thoughtful conservatism. It's about manic, paranoid anti-Leftism.

 

[SeaMajor7]

The patriarch of GOP conservatism spoke at the gala convened in his honor by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank he founded:

“With so much change, and chaos, and conflict, too many people and organizations are abandoning these principles and turning to power to solve problems... But we know from history, this just makes them worse.

“People have forgotten that when principles are lost, so are freedom and progress.”

​

Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit. Trump and his economic team are engaging in some of the riskiest and costliest brinksmanship over global trade in a generation. And when the head of the second-largest private company in the United States speaks, there’s an oracle-like aura that demands parsing...​

​

​

View attachment 1106721​

“You can see why we’re in the mess we are today,”​

Koch said.​

​

The “mess” was as explicit as he was willing to get in regard to a pursuit of power at all costs... Trump marked his 100th day in office this week with a report... that showed the economy shrunk in his first quarter. His trade war has shifted buying patterns, shaken U.S. consumer confidence, and rattled the stock market. Consumers are already starting to notice costs rising from Trump’s tariff strategy, which has been all over the map: adding some here, delaying them there, canceling them here, upping them there...​

​

Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler said explicitly what Koch merely waved at, the feistiness is not fading.​

​

“We will always oppose when a policy is moving in a direction that contradicts these principles... When [Trump] disappears people without due process, or enacts extra-legal tariffs that threaten business and prosperity around the world, or targets individual law firms for retribution and calls into great danger to the rule of law, we’ll stick to our principles, speak out, push back, and oppose it.”​

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...country-is-in/ar-AA1E1efz?ocid=BingNewsBrowse​

Oh noes, not the RINO's.

 

[Mac-7]

Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit.

The CATO Institute is Libertarian not Conservative

China does not practice free trade

It practices mercantilism, which is government controlled economic aggression and imperialism

Something that conservatives and libertarians should fight against

 

[BluesLegend]

It's interesting, Democrats spend all their time trying to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters and ZERO time promoting their own policies, ideas and leaders.

 

[BrokeLoser]

The patriarch of GOP conservatism spoke at the gala convened in his honor by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank he founded:

“With so much change, and chaos, and conflict, too many people and organizations are abandoning these principles and turning to power to solve problems... But we know from history, this just makes them worse.

“People have forgotten that when principles are lost, so are freedom and progress.”

​

Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit. Trump and his economic team are engaging in some of the riskiest and costliest brinksmanship over global trade in a generation. And when the head of the second-largest private company in the United States speaks, there’s an oracle-like aura that demands parsing...​

​

​

View attachment 1106721​

“You can see why we’re in the mess we are today,”​

Koch said.​

​

The “mess” was as explicit as he was willing to get in regard to a pursuit of power at all costs... Trump marked his 100th day in office this week with a report... that showed the economy shrunk in his first quarter. His trade war has shifted buying patterns, shaken U.S. consumer confidence, and rattled the stock market. Consumers are already starting to notice costs rising from Trump’s tariff strategy, which has been all over the map: adding some here, delaying them there, canceling them here, upping them there...​

​

Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler said explicitly what Koch merely waved at, the feistiness is not fading.​

​

“We will always oppose when a policy is moving in a direction that contradicts these principles... When [Trump] disappears people without due process, or enacts extra-legal tariffs that threaten business and prosperity around the world, or targets individual law firms for retribution and calls into great danger to the rule of law, we’ll stick to our principles, speak out, push back, and oppose it.”​

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...country-is-in/ar-AA1E1efz?ocid=BingNewsBrowse​

Can Conservatism Save the GOP from Trumpery?​

Translation:
“I really miss those traditional hardcore Bible thumping ‘Conservatives’….the ones who didn’t conserve, preserve or protect anything, the ones with no ball-sack, the one’s that would polish the AR-15’s they’d never have the nuts to use, the foolish suckers we could easily bully, easily steer their way of thinking by throwing a Bible verse in their face…we could get those passive dumbass pussies to accept anything with a simple guilt trip. DAMNIT…The nutless bastards finally grew a pair of balls and now they won’t ignore us filthy, disgusting, immoral globalist degenerates as we run amok, trashing and transforming their nation into the no borders, no boundaries anything goes dark socialist foreign shithole we seek.”

 

[Billiejeens]

The patriarch of GOP conservatism spoke at the gala convened in his honor by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank he founded:

“With so much change, and chaos, and conflict, too many people and organizations are abandoning these principles and turning to power to solve problems... But we know from history, this just makes them worse.

“People have forgotten that when principles are lost, so are freedom and progress.”

​

Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit. Trump and his economic team are engaging in some of the riskiest and costliest brinksmanship over global trade in a generation. And when the head of the second-largest private company in the United States speaks, there’s an oracle-like aura that demands parsing...​

​

​

View attachment 1106721​

“You can see why we’re in the mess we are today,”​

Koch said.​

​

The “mess” was as explicit as he was willing to get in regard to a pursuit of power at all costs... Trump marked his 100th day in office this week with a report... that showed the economy shrunk in his first quarter. His trade war has shifted buying patterns, shaken U.S. consumer confidence, and rattled the stock market. Consumers are already starting to notice costs rising from Trump’s tariff strategy, which has been all over the map: adding some here, delaying them there, canceling them here, upping them there...​

​

Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler said explicitly what Koch merely waved at, the feistiness is not fading.​

​

“We will always oppose when a policy is moving in a direction that contradicts these principles... When [Trump] disappears people without due process, or enacts extra-legal tariffs that threaten business and prosperity around the world, or targets individual law firms for retribution and calls into great danger to the rule of law, we’ll stick to our principles, speak out, push back, and oppose it.”​

​

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...country-is-in/ar-AA1E1efz?ocid=BingNewsBrowse​

I admit
That was funny

 

[Rawley]

I guess we'll see. This country desperately needs a serious Left and a serious Right. Current total, zero.

Trumpery isn't about intelligent, thoughtful conservatism. It's about manic, paranoid anti-Leftism.

We on the right are totally serious. You loons on the left have gone off the rails

 

[Billiejeens]

It's interesting, Democrats spend all their time trying to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters and ZERO time promoting their own policies, ideas and leaders.

And,
Koch is not a Conservative or a Republican
Or a Predident Trump supporter.

 

[westwall]

We on the right are totally serious. You loons on the left have gone off the rails

Actually, they have always been Marxist loons, they just hid it well.

Trump has them so worked up that they are losing control and no longer able to hide what they are.

 

[1srelluc]

Why would Trump supporters care what he says? He's a total RINO and supports the same. Nothing new under the sun there.

LOL....I swear, the left must not be aware of this thing called a search engine.

Where the Koch Network Is Putting Their Money—Anywhere But Trump

Even with Kamala Harris as the nominee, the powerful network led by billionaire Charles Koch is not putting money toward Trump.

time.com

......billionaire industrialist Charles Koch had officially remained neutral in Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, a sign of how uncomfortable his allies were with a candidate whose positions were so far afoul from their own on so many issues.

 

[Mac-7]

It's interesting, Democrats spend all their time trying to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters and ZERO time promoting their own policies, ideas and leaders.

Libs have no ideas other than de facto marxism and bigger government

 

[Correll]

The patriarch of GOP conservatism spoke at the gala convened in his honor by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank he founded:

“With so much change, and chaos, and conflict, too many people and organizations are abandoning these principles and turning to power to solve problems... But we know from history, this just makes them worse.

“People have forgotten that when principles are lost, so are freedom and progress.”

​

Charles Koch has long been a foe of protectionism and an evangelist for free markets, competitive advantage, and mutual benefit. Trump and his economic team are engaging in some of the riskiest and costliest brinksmanship over global trade in a generation. And when the head of the second-largest private company in the United States speaks, there’s an oracle-like aura that demands parsing...​

​

​

View attachment 1106721​

“You can see why we’re in the mess we are today,”​

Koch said.​

​

The “mess” was as explicit as he was willing to get in regard to a pursuit of power at all costs... Trump marked his 100th day in office this week with a report... that showed the economy shrunk in his first quarter. His trade war has shifted buying patterns, shaken U.S. consumer confidence, and rattled the stock market. Consumers are already starting to notice costs rising from Trump’s tariff strategy, which has been all over the map: adding some here, delaying them there, canceling them here, upping them there...​

​

Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler said explicitly what Koch merely waved at, the feistiness is not fading.​

​

“We will always oppose when a policy is moving in a direction that contradicts these principles... When [Trump] disappears people without due process, or enacts extra-legal tariffs that threaten business and prosperity around the world, or targets individual law firms for retribution and calls into great danger to the rule of law, we’ll stick to our principles, speak out, push back, and oppose it.”​

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...country-is-in/ar-AA1E1efz?ocid=BingNewsBrowse​

Any publication that would use that photo is not to be taken seriously.

 

[Polishprince]

20 years ago, Charles Koch was attacked by libs as a "Hitler" and a "Nazi" as his dad was one the original Birchers.

What makes libs think they can recruit him to take down the Republicans so they can rise to power again?

Koch may be old, but he isn't stupid, he remembers the way he was cussed at by libs.

 

[schmidlap]

I guess we'll see. This country desperately needs a serious Left and a serious Right. Current total, zero.

Trumpery isn't about intelligent, thoughtful conservatism. It's about manic, paranoid anti-Leftism.

Principled patriots, regardless of ideological inclinations, are about to incur the consequences of Trumpery and the reckless tariffmania that is the blowhard's signature trade policy.

Trump's desperate attempts to blame his predecessor for the havoc he is wreaking is insipid.

On his 101st day in office, Trump blames Biden for the stock market

Trump Blames Biden for First U.S. GDP Decline Since 2022

Trump says he'll blame Biden AGAIN for 2nd quarter GDP after blaming him for Q1 drop

Trump blames Biden for shrinking economy: ‘He left us with bad numbers’
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Product shortages and empty store shelves loom​

Who will be blamed in perpetuity?

Still Shoveling it after all these years!

When are you going to stop blaming the dog we don't have,
and start blaming Biden?​

 

[1srelluc]

In this thread the OP is turned into a toad.

 

[Billiejeens]

Does Koch believe in civil liberties, transparent and accountable government? THAT is conservatism. Whoever supports that most should be supported, even if they are Democrats.

In no instance will it be a Democrat.

 

[jc456]

November 5th 320 to 216! 81 million


keep trying to reverse the clock. It ain't working.