How the Republican Establishment Took Over Trump

[Sunstone]

Journalist Jane Coaston makes the case that, while the Republican Party has changed stylistically in response to Mr. Trump, it has done very little more than that.

According to Ms. Coaston, that is because Mr. Trump has failed to push the populist policies that he ran on in 2016. Policies such as massive spending on infrastructure, meaningfully re-negotiating NAFTA, building a wall between the US and Mexico, creating millions of high-quality jobs, growing the economy by 4% to 6% per year, and so forth. In the absence of his leadership, the Republican Establishment has ignored most of Mr. Trump's platform, and only passed a massive tax cut for the rich and super-rich.

There's more to her message than that. Both the video and her article are worth attention.

Comments?

Trump was supposed to change the GOP. But the GOP changed him.

 

[sun rise]

I don't see the piece as expanding on the headline. Rather than Trump being changed, he's changed others. Not in a policy perspective as much as a morality perspective. Or maybe the right was always that way and now it's truly been revealed as being amoral and only caring about power and winning.

Certainly when it comes to crimes, Trump gets a pass if not applause except for a bit of tsk-tsk from Collins from time-to-time. The piece is accurate in noting Trump's narcissism without the label. And that narcissism causes people to drop whatever morality they have and cheer him on.

The party of Nixon which created the EPA to solve a problem has become the party of Trump which is dedicated to destroying the institutions of government that don't totally kowtow to Trump's every whim.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The only ones qualified to answer that question would be Trumps family and closest friends.

 

[Stevicus]

Journalist Jane Coaston makes the case that, while the Republican Party has changed stylistically in response to Mr. Trump, it has done very little more than that.

According to Ms. Coaston, that is because Mr. Trump has failed to push the populist policies that he ran on in 2016. Policies such as massive spending on infrastructure, meaningfully re-negotiating NAFTA, building a wall between the US and Mexico, creating millions of high-quality jobs, growing the economy by 4% to 6% per year, and so forth. In the absence of his leadership, the Republican Establishment has ignored most of Mr. Trump's platform, and only passed a massive tax cut for the rich and super-rich.

There's more to her message than that. Both the video and her article are worth attention.

Comments?

Trump was supposed to change the GOP. But the GOP changed him.

An interesting article. This part chimed with me:

Geoffrey Kabaservice, director of political studies at the Niskanen Center, told me it was true that “the GOP by 2016 had run out of ideas that went any deeper than zombie Reaganism plus slightly chastened neoconservatism, and this void did seem to have been noticed by disgruntled Republican voters and Donald Trump.”

I remember when they were called "Reagan Robots," although "zombie" seems a fitting term as well.

 

[Mindmaster]

There's more to her message than that. Both the video and her article are worth attention.

Not really... Just another case of the left sniffing it's own farts and thinking they're standing in a field of daisies.

Currently, Republicans are playing their cards close to their chest because there is absolutely no reason to actively engage when Democratic-sympathizers are strangling themselves. It'll all change Nov. 3rd after the "Trump-slide". I say that because even the Dem party leadership knows they're completely losing.

Newsome will sit there on TV prattling about the climate while his state is burning to the ground, and Dem policies that prevent controlled burning of underbrush causes the catastrophe. For example, Texas has very similar conditions but does the controlled burn - their state is not burning to the ground at the moment. Oregon and Washington state have both curtailed controlled burns, so they have the problem too. It's not climate that caused these problems but an amazing level of complete ignorance. The voters are going to remember this stupidity at the ballot box. Trust me.