Four more years? Four more months will be hard enough.
If you had to pick the moment at which the modern Republican Party reached the zenith of its political dominance, it would be the 1984 landslide in which Ronald Reagan picked up nearly 98 percent of the electoral votes — one of the biggest blowouts in history.
“The tide of history is moving irresistibly in our direction,” Reagan said a few months later. “Why? Because the other side is virtually bankrupt of ideas. It has nothing more to say, nothing to add to the debate. It has spent its intellectual capital — such as it was.”
Today, what Reagan once said of “the other side” could easily apply to the Republican Party, which in the course of four short years has remade itself in the backward-looking, intellectually incoherent image of Donald Trump.
... In recent interviews, when Trump has been asked why he wants a second term, and what he would do with it if he is given one, he has made it clear that he has no clue.
... Trump has no ideas — except to continue stoking the resentments and racism of his most ardent supporters. From the base of Mount Rushmore on Friday night and the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday, he turned the annual celebration of our nation’s independence into just another divisive and partisan moment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/06/reagan-said-democrats-had-no-ideas-now-thats-true-gop/
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