Can Conservatism Save the GOP from Trumpery?

[jwoodie]

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

So he opposes protectionism but favors competitive advantage? What does that mean?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

If it is Koch vs. Soros, we are all screwed.

 

[Meister]

Whatever Trump is doing, I hope he continues. He is righting the ship as the leftwing loons
continue their tantrum.

 

[Correll]

Whatever Trump is doing, I hope he continues. He is righting the ship as the leftwing loons
continue their tantrum.

The more they whine, the more you know we are on the right track.

 

[Contumacious]

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​

HUH?

The corollary to that question being "CAN FUCKING SAVE A WOMAN'S VIRGINITY ?


Conservatism never meant warmongering , neocraziness and blindly supporting war profiteers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dekster]

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​

Well I am not sure that I would put much stock in the wisdom of the man who funded the Tea Party from which MAGA grew.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The more they whine, the more you know we are on the right track.

 

[jc456]

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there you go!

 

[Invisibleflash]

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​

 

[schmidlap]

Abandoning the international trade policies that America established after WWII resulted in its rise to greatness - global preeminence in power and prosperity in a shared, mutually-beneficial arrangement.

Zealots eager to trash that demonstrably successful strategy must be restrained gently.

 

[JLW]

Conservatism is dead. There is only Trumpery on one side and sanity on the other.

 

[Failzero]

Can Conservatives embrace ( re establishing Roe ) ( Amnesty / Pathway to citizenship ) ( keeping funding for NPR/ PBS ) ( A new Green New Deal ) ( Special Rights & Protections for Minorities and victim classes ) ( Defund & Divest from Israel ) ( End any push for tariff equality ) … ???

 

[Contumacious]

Conservatism is dead. There is only Trumpery on one side and sanity on the other.

The DIngle Berry Learned in the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS that the Cackle Queens' Marxism will save humanity

 

[Contumacious]

Abandoning the international trade policies

WHEN OH WHEN did President Trump "abandon" international trade policies

The advantages of EOs are that they are flexible - he can adjust them as it becomes necessary

 

[Mac1958]

Abandoning the international trade policies that America established after WWII resulted in its rise to greatness - global preeminence in power and prosperity in a shared, mutually-beneficial arrangement.

It's just inexplicable. We've just given up virtually everything that set us apart, from military to intelligence to trade to our very currency and Treasuries.

That's something a person does when their paranoia has control of them.

 

[d0gbreath]

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.

He probably does believe in those things. He's just aghast that he can't find them anymore.

 

[Failzero]

Can Conservatives embrace ( re establishing Roe ) ( Amnesty / Pathway to citizenship ) ( keeping funding for NPR/ PBS ) ( A new Green New Deal ) ( Special Rights & Protections for Minorities and victim classes ) ( Defund & Divest from Israel ) ( End any push for tariff equality ) … ???

QFT / Bump for effect