It had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was all a lie

[dajoki]

The Lincoln Project understands that Trump’s enablers must pay a price
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/22/lincoln-project-is-trying-save-republican-party-itself/

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In fact, the Lincoln Project’s founders have impeccable Republican credentials, but they are thoroughly disenchanted with the Party of Trump. One of the consultants affiliated with the Lincoln Project — Stuart Stevens — has written a forthcoming book called “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump” that explains in coruscating and compelling terms why he is done with a party he has served his whole life. Steven has run numerous GOP campaigns; he was Mitt Romney’s chief strategist in 2012. Yet he makes no attempt to paint Trump as an aberration. Rather, he sees the president as the distillation of decades of GOP dogma.

He calls the GOP “a white grievance party,” and writes that “there is an ugly history of code words and dog whistles in the party.” The rest of the Republican platform he dismisses as a convenient fiction: “How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy, and the national debt in a matter of months? You don’t. The obvious answer is those beliefs weren’t deeply held.… It had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was all a lie.

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[cilla4progress]

1. Absolutely.

drumpf claims "I alone can fix it," and in next breath, "I take no responsibility."

All of the power and none of the responsibility.

This is a dictatorship.

Most maddening is his sociopathy has been apparent all his life and no one stopped it. We all should have seen this train wreck coming and mobilized to stop it when he plowed thru the gop primaries in 2016. Most especially the gop which is merely a cover for a transnational crime syndicate.

[wiggs]

2. Why haven't pundits, journalists, dem leaders been able to make the case that

the gop is a hollow, self-serving enterprise?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

3. What took them so long?

Were they only watching stock market reports in the clubhouse of their favorite golf course for all these years?

Where's their revolt against Faux News, right-wing talk radio and corrupt politicians like Gingrich that have been spewing lies and deceptions and GOP dogma for decades while brainwashing millions of Americans into an irrational stupor?

The Republican Party didn't "become Donald Trump". He's simply brought it into the sunlight for what it's been for a very long time.

They apparently have only become awoke and alarmed after seeing their house of cards in danger of collapse.

KY....

[lame54]

4. Duh - welcome to reality Stuart