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Two Prominent Conservatives Call For the Death of the GOP
Dan K
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Thursday September 10, 2020 · 12:49 PM EDT
Its no longer unusual to find Jennifer Rubin, one of WaPos house conservatives, calling for removing many GOP officials. This morning, however, she went further and called for voting out all of them. On top of that, Tom Nichols, a leading conservative member of the Federalist, wrote the same thing in The Atlantic.
Rubin: Seven reasons to vote every Republican out of office.
Nichols: This Republican Party Is Not Worth Saving: No one should ever get a second chance to destroy the Constitution.
Start with Jennifer (Ive written enough diaries about her I can speak of her on a first-name basis. Shes never heard of me, of course):
Followed by a list of their crimes, by paragraph, with a summary sentence for each:
Republicans thereby enabled Trumps abuses of power.
Republicans subverted U.S. national security.
Republicans have supported a commander in chief unfit to lead men and women in uniform.
Republicans have thereby helped foment racial division and violence.
In short, Republicans have put their own political survival above the lives of Americans.
Republicans have thus helped undermine the central attributes of democracy free and fair elections, and the peaceful transfer of power.
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Next, Tom Nichols, who starts off by saying I was a Republican for most of my adult life who really believed that While the Democrats were the party of recrimination and retreat, the Republicans were the party of the future. Uh, right. But regardless, he now sees the GOP for what it has been for generations (even if he wont admit that part):
He blasts the GOP for clinging to Trump because of judges and abortion:
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)and they will have to have a party.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)The Democratic party would split into liberal and conservative factions.
Half the people here would be banned, and shunned, Tombstoned etc. Not instantly of course.
Think about the primaries how contentious they always are.
People NEED conflict imo.
elleng
(130,126 posts)the term is constantly misused; they are radicals.
'Conservatism'
1.
commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.
"proponents of theological conservatism"
2.
the holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)and there is conservatism in practice in real life.
elleng
(130,126 posts)but there is NOTHING conservative about them in either context.
'commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.
"proponents of theological conservatism"'
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Trump has spent his admin in an reactionary frenzy of commitment to traditional values - returning to them.
undermining gay marriage
attempting to ban abortion and birth control
turning back environmental protections
ditto for consumer protections
rejection of civil rights measures
This isn't just Trump but the entire GOP in the modern age.