Is the GOP now the party of authoritarianism?

[Valerie]

Shockingly, Trump told Yahoo News that he would consider requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a government database, or worse, mandating that they carry special identification cards that note their faith.

The reaction to this idea, fairly or unfairly, by many on social media, was to accuse Trump of wanting to mimic laws that Nazis had imposed on Jews, including requiring them to wear a gold Star of David on their clothes.

After Trump confirmed that he would set up a database for Muslim-Americans, an NBC reporter asked him point blank: "Is there a difference between requiring Muslims to register and Jews in Nazi Germany?" A clearly annoyed Trump at first refused to respond, but then told the reporter, "You tell me," and walked away.

Donald Trump's horrifying words about Muslims (Opinion) - CNN.com


Donald Trump on terrorists: 'Take out their families' - CNNPolitics.com


“Trump’s A Race-Baiting, Xenophobic, Religious Bigot. He Doesn’t Represent My Party. He Doesn’t Represent The Values That The Men And Women Who Wear The Uniform Are Fighting For.”
CNN

“He’s Putting Our Soldiers And Diplomats At Risk, He’s Empowering The Enemy And This Ban…Would Take People… Who Came To Our Side In Iraq And Afghanistan And Who Are Under Siege In Their Own Countries, It Basically Becomes A Death Sentence For Them.”

“He Is Empowering Radical Islam And If He Knew Anything About The World At All, [He] Would Know That Most Muslims Reject This Ideology, And They’ve Died By The Thousands Trying To Reject This Radical Ideology.”


“You’re Undercutting Their Efforts, You’re Slandering Their Sacrifice, You’re Marginalizing What They’re Trying To Do To Make The World A Better Place.”

Graham On CNN New Day: “You Know How You Make America Great Again? Tell Donald Trump To Go To Hell” | Lindsey Graham for President 2016 | LindseyGraham.com



spoken not by an 'obamabot' or a liberal but by a conservative Republican leader ^

This is a pack of lies. You're a left wing douche bag.

are you talking to the Senior Republican Senator from South Carolina..?

 

[bripat9643]

ravi must have run to the polls to vote for the most qualified candidate in the race, hillary.

It is unpopular to say in the year of the “outsider,” but it is not a recommendation that Trump has never held public office. Since 1984, when Jesse Jackson ran for president with no credential other than a great flow of words, both parties have been infested by candidates who have treated the presidency as an entry-level position. They are the excrescences of instant-hit media culture. The burdens and intricacies of leadership are special; experience in other fields is not transferable. That is why all American presidents have been politicians, or generals.

Any candidate can promise the moon. But politicians have records of success, failure, or plain backsliding by which their promises may be judged. Trump can try to make his blankness a virtue by calling it a kind of innocence. But he is like a man with no credit history applying for a mortgage — or, in this case, applying to manage a $3.8 trillion budget and the most fearsome military on earth.

RELATED: When Conservatives Needed Allies, Donald Trump Sided with Obama


Against Trump

Trump nevertheless offers a valuable warning for the Republican party. If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless. If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers — worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible — they will be rejected by their own voters. If they cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn’t make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them.

Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself.

Who is "we?" What makes you think Republicans give a flying fuck what you "sympathize with?" You're the reason we have an immigration problem. Left wing douche bags have systematically and deliberately obstructed any attempt to control our borders. You created the problem, so why would anyone bother listening to what you have to say on the issue? the solution to the problem is to defeat Democrats. There is no other solution that involves them.

 

[Valerie]

What’s Conservatism Without Liberty?
What’s Conservatism Without Liberty?

 

[Valerie]

ravi must have run to the polls to vote for the most qualified candidate in the race, hillary.

It is unpopular to say in the year of the “outsider,” but it is not a recommendation that Trump has never held public office. Since 1984, when Jesse Jackson ran for president with no credential other than a great flow of words, both parties have been infested by candidates who have treated the presidency as an entry-level position. They are the excrescences of instant-hit media culture. The burdens and intricacies of leadership are special; experience in other fields is not transferable. That is why all American presidents have been politicians, or generals.

Any candidate can promise the moon. But politicians have records of success, failure, or plain backsliding by which their promises may be judged. Trump can try to make his blankness a virtue by calling it a kind of innocence. But he is like a man with no credit history applying for a mortgage — or, in this case, applying to manage a $3.8 trillion budget and the most fearsome military on earth.

RELATED: When Conservatives Needed Allies, Donald Trump Sided with Obama


Against Trump

Trump nevertheless offers a valuable warning for the Republican party. If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless. If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers — worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible — they will be rejected by their own voters. If they cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn’t make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them.

Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself.

Who is "we?" What makes you think Republicans give a flying fuck what you "sympathize with?" You're the reason we have an immigration problem. Left wing douche bags have systematically and deliberately obstructed any attempt to control our borders. You created the problem, so why would anyone bother listening to what you have to say on the issue? the solution to the problem is to defeat Democrats. There is no other solution that involves them.

thanks for admitting (yet again) that you never even bother to read for comprehension before knee-jerk attacks.


those quotes are only from The most conservative publication going.


Against Trump

National Review (N.R.) is a semi-monthly magazine founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955.

It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."[3]

Who is "we?" What makes you think Republicans give a flying fuck what you "sympathize with?"

 

[Valerie]

These kinds of troll posts are especially funny. As if most posters here don't know the OP is a Communist/Progressive Obamabot who doesn't care about America or the Constitution. He or she really does believe the Board forgot who they are. Funny stuff.

Or their sock who was just waiting In the wings to troll the thread with canned responses complete with cutsie Pictures .

Very predictable

did you have anything to add to the topic besides shameless lies about your political opponents?

 

[Ravi]

These kinds of troll posts are especially funny. As if most posters here don't know the OP is a Communist/Progressive Obamabot who doesn't care about America or the Constitution. He or she really does believe the Board forgot who they are. Funny stuff.

Or their sock who was just waiting In the wings to troll the thread with canned responses complete with cutsie Pictures .

Very predictable

did you have anything to add to the topic besides shameless lies about your political opponents?

Don't worry about it. Margerine has messed up her mind. How else support a "Republican" that is a fascist?

 

[bripat9643]

ravi must have run to the polls to vote for the most qualified candidate in the race, hillary.

It is unpopular to say in the year of the “outsider,” but it is not a recommendation that Trump has never held public office. Since 1984, when Jesse Jackson ran for president with no credential other than a great flow of words, both parties have been infested by candidates who have treated the presidency as an entry-level position. They are the excrescences of instant-hit media culture. The burdens and intricacies of leadership are special; experience in other fields is not transferable. That is why all American presidents have been politicians, or generals.

Any candidate can promise the moon. But politicians have records of success, failure, or plain backsliding by which their promises may be judged. Trump can try to make his blankness a virtue by calling it a kind of innocence. But he is like a man with no credit history applying for a mortgage — or, in this case, applying to manage a $3.8 trillion budget and the most fearsome military on earth.

RELATED: When Conservatives Needed Allies, Donald Trump Sided with Obama


Against Trump

Trump nevertheless offers a valuable warning for the Republican party. If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless. If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers — worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible — they will be rejected by their own voters. If they cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn’t make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them.

Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself.

Who is "we?" What makes you think Republicans give a flying fuck what you "sympathize with?" You're the reason we have an immigration problem. Left wing douche bags have systematically and deliberately obstructed any attempt to control our borders. You created the problem, so why would anyone bother listening to what you have to say on the issue? the solution to the problem is to defeat Democrats. There is no other solution that involves them.

thanks for admitting (yet again) that you never even bother to read for comprehension before knee-jerk attacks.


those quotes are only from The most conservative publication going.


Against Trump

National Review (N.R.) is a semi-monthly magazine founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955.

It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."[3]

Who is "we?" What makes you think Republicans give a flying fuck what you "sympathize with?"

National Review has turned into an establishment Republican publication. They are douche bags, just like you.

 

[BlueGin]

These kinds of troll posts are especially funny. As if most posters here don't know the OP is a Communist/Progressive Obamabot who doesn't care about America or the Constitution. He or she really does believe the Board forgot who they are. Funny stuff.

Or their sock who was just waiting In the wings to troll the thread with canned responses complete with cutsie Pictures .

Very predictable

did you have anything to add to the topic besides shameless lies about your political opponents?

Got anymore canned arguments saved to your server?

 

[Valerie]

These kinds of troll posts are especially funny. As if most posters here don't know the OP is a Communist/Progressive Obamabot who doesn't care about America or the Constitution. He or she really does believe the Board forgot who they are. Funny stuff.

Or their sock who was just waiting In the wings to troll the thread with canned responses complete with cutsie Pictures .

Very predictable

did you have anything to add to the topic besides shameless lies about your political opponents?

Don't worry about it. Margerine has messed up her mind. How else support a "Republican" that is a fascist?

too much blue bonnet... at least thugs who turn a blind eye to trump's rhetoric are fully exposed.

 

[bripat9643]

Shockingly, Trump told Yahoo News that he would consider requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a government database, or worse, mandating that they carry special identification cards that note their faith.

The reaction to this idea, fairly or unfairly, by many on social media, was to accuse Trump of wanting to mimic laws that Nazis had imposed on Jews, including requiring them to wear a gold Star of David on their clothes.

After Trump confirmed that he would set up a database for Muslim-Americans, an NBC reporter asked him point blank: "Is there a difference between requiring Muslims to register and Jews in Nazi Germany?" A clearly annoyed Trump at first refused to respond, but then told the reporter, "You tell me," and walked away.

Donald Trump's horrifying words about Muslims (Opinion) - CNN.com


Donald Trump on terrorists: 'Take out their families' - CNNPolitics.com


“Trump’s A Race-Baiting, Xenophobic, Religious Bigot. He Doesn’t Represent My Party. He Doesn’t Represent The Values That The Men And Women Who Wear The Uniform Are Fighting For.”
CNN

“He’s Putting Our Soldiers And Diplomats At Risk, He’s Empowering The Enemy And This Ban…Would Take People… Who Came To Our Side In Iraq And Afghanistan And Who Are Under Siege In Their Own Countries, It Basically Becomes A Death Sentence For Them.”

“He Is Empowering Radical Islam And If He Knew Anything About The World At All, [He] Would Know That Most Muslims Reject This Ideology, And They’ve Died By The Thousands Trying To Reject This Radical Ideology.”


“You’re Undercutting Their Efforts, You’re Slandering Their Sacrifice, You’re Marginalizing What They’re Trying To Do To Make The World A Better Place.”

Graham On CNN New Day: “You Know How You Make America Great Again? Tell Donald Trump To Go To Hell” | Lindsey Graham for President 2016 | LindseyGraham.com



spoken not by an 'obamabot' or a liberal but by a conservative Republican leader ^

This is a pack of lies. You're a left wing douche bag.

are you talking to the Senior Republican Senator from South Carolina..?

Lindsey Graham? Yes, he's the biggest douche bag in the Republican party.

 

[Valerie]

typical response from vapid partisans who have no clue how to think for themselves...

 

[BlueGin]

Got anymore canned arguments saved to your server?

i post off the top of my head while running two businesses and a household.

any more lies you'd like to spread, shameless agenda whore?

Sure you do.

 

[Valerie]

you've obviously got absolutely nothing to add to the discussion...

 

[flacaltenn]

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[flacaltenn]

bump

 

[Contumacious]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.


Authoritarianism began in the 1860's when Lincoln centralized power in DC , reduced the states to mere provinces and when the Fourteenth Amendment and Seventeenth Amendments were , allegedly, enacted.

Authoritarianism was cemented in 1935 when FDR adopted fascism as our socioeconomic system, and when the US Constitution (1787-1935) was abolished.


.So BOTH parties practice Authoritarianism.

 

[Campbell]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.


Authoritarianism began in the 1860's when Lincoln centralized power in DC , reduced the states to mere provinces and when the Fourteenth Amendment and Seventeenth Amendments were , allegedly, enacted.

Authoritarianism was cemented in 1935 when FDR adopted fascism as our socioeconomic system, and when the US Constitution (1787-1935) was abolished.


.So BOTH parties practice Authoritarianism.

I wish you had been around in the 1930's/1940's. FDR was a hero of the people. There hasn't been another like him.

 

[Contumacious]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.


Authoritarianism began in the 1860's when Lincoln centralized power in DC , reduced the states to mere provinces and when the Fourteenth Amendment and Seventeenth Amendments were , allegedly, enacted.

Authoritarianism was cemented in 1935 when FDR adopted fascism as our socioeconomic system, and when the US Constitution (1787-1935) was abolished.


.So BOTH parties practice Authoritarianism.

I wish you had been around in the 1930's/1940's. FDR was a hero of the people. There hasn't been another like him.

So was Hitler, he was ELECTED to office.

Unfortunately, ignorant people get to vote.

.

 

[Ravi]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.


Authoritarianism began in the 1860's when Lincoln centralized power in DC , reduced the states to mere provinces and when the Fourteenth Amendment and Seventeenth Amendments were , allegedly, enacted.

Authoritarianism was cemented in 1935 when FDR adopted fascism as our socioeconomic system, and when the US Constitution (1787-1935) was abolished.


.So BOTH parties practice Authoritarianism.

And you want Trump to continue toward a more authoritarian country?

 

[Campbell]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.


Authoritarianism began in the 1860's when Lincoln centralized power in DC , reduced the states to mere provinces and when the Fourteenth Amendment and Seventeenth Amendments were , allegedly, enacted.

Authoritarianism was cemented in 1935 when FDR adopted fascism as our socioeconomic system, and when the US Constitution (1787-1935) was abolished.


.So BOTH parties practice Authoritarianism.

I wish you had been around in the 1930's/1940's. FDR was a hero of the people. There hasn't been another like him.

So was Hitler, he was ELECTED to office.

Unfortunately, ignorant people get to vote.

.

They showed their ignorance when they elected Herbert Hoover. FDR pulled the nation back from the brink. I was living on a farm in west Tennessee...where were you?