Can Conservatism Save the GOP from Trumpery?

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

You don't even like conservatives. But, it shows your level of TDS when you root for conservatives to get rid of Trump.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Trump stumped nobody, and the case is not over. You are so easy.

SC ruled in favor of Trump, did they not?

Tell me how much in favor you are of criminals being allowed in under a Biden EO and that Trump can't undo it with his own EO.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

SC ruled in favor of Trump, did they not?

Tell me how much in favor you are of criminals being allowed in under a Biden EO and that Trump can't undo it with his own EO.

You favor criminality, I do not. You are MAGAt. If a Biden EO was overturned, I would live with it, just as you, if SCOTUS rules against it, will live with it.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

You favor criminality, I do not. You are MAGAt. If a Biden EO was overturned, I would live with it, just as you, if SCOTUS rules against it, will live with it.

They did.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

They did.

Not always. And Trump is miserable with the courts.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Not always. And Trump is miserable with the courts.

Activist judges.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Activist judges.

Judges who follow the laws, who make Trump follow the laws.

Did you know that Trump is a forever felon.

 

[schmidlap]

You don't even like conservatives. But, it shows your level of TDS when you root for conservatives to get rid of Trump.

Of course, I'm not "rooting." I'm quoting. Nor does my quoting imply my subscribing to what is expressed.

This is "rooting":

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[schmidlap]

Conservatives have been gelded.

Trump and MAGA have emasculated them.

Conservatives would collectively need to "grow a pair" in order to reverse the Orange Hooliganism lying under the surface.

That is not going to happen.

Yes, rabid Trumpery has castrated conservatism.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Judges who follow the laws, who make Trump follow the laws.

Did you know that Trump is a forever felon.

I know that the Dems have judges at their beck and call. Lawfare.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I know that the Dems have judges at their beck and call. Lawfare.

So do you.

 

[konradv]

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​

Are there any conservatives left in the GOP? Weren’t they all called RINOs and driven out?

 

[Paradoxical#1]

So do you.

Not nearly as many as you do due to decades of DEI

 

[Independent thinker]

Of course, I'm not "rooting." I'm quoting. Nor does my quoting imply my subscribing to what is expressed.

This is "rooting":

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So, you don't want conservatives to get Trump.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

So, you don't want conservatives to get Trump.

We want conservatives to get Trump, yes.

 

[Independent thinker]

We want conservatives to get Trump, yes.

As I said, TDS is when you are so obsessed with getting Trump that you want a group of people you don’t even like to get Trump because you have been unable to get Trump yourselves.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

As I said, TDS is when you are so obsessed with getting Trump that you want a group of people you don’t even like to get Trump because you have been unable to get Trump yourselves.