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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTerry Bracy: Who are the Republicans now?
Heading into election day, there were two crucial questions. First, who would win? Second, in a divided era, how would the loser respond?
Joe Biden won by more than 4 million and is calling for unity. Donald Trump lost and is inciting division.
The presidents reaction to a Dear Donald letter from the American voters has so far been appalling. His ego maniacal personality prevented him from seeing the breakup coming. He has rejected the message and is attempting to enforce a broken relationship on the country, possibly making him the most dangerous jilted lover in the world.
Many critics predicted this temper tantrum; what few imagined, including me, is that the GOP leaders would go along with the kinds of treacherous behavior that humiliates America before the world.
This is not the Republican Party that I knew. The first Republican President in my lifetime was Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero to my family and our middle class neighbors in a post-war neighborhood in St. Louis. Ike promised to end the Korean War and did. He also built the Interstate Highway System.
The second was Richard Nixon who before leaving office in disgrace opened relations with China, created the Environmental Protection Agency, and helped the cause of Native Americans.
Gerald Ford brought the country together after Watergate.
Ronald Reagan was the JFK of the conservatives who brought image and style to the White House and is credited with bringing down the Berlin Wall signaling the collapse of the Soviet Union.
His successor George H.W. Bush lost a second term because of a act of patriotism when he raised taxes to control a spiraling deficit.
His sons star-crossed Presidency saw 9/11 and never ending war in the Middle East
Then came Donald Trump. He unleashed on America a form of angry Populism that appealed to millions who felt left behind by the high-tech secular culture of the 21st Century. Trump trounced a weak Republican field and squeaked by a very capable but tone deaf Democrat.
He inherited a presidency whose power had been greatly expanded by Barack Obama who resorted to rule by executive order when blind opposition from a Republican Senate majority blocked his programs.
Trump used it on steroids. Before long he simply ignored Congress. He built 300 miles of border wall with money appropriated to fill the needs for military housing. He filled cabinet offices with so-called temporary appointees in order to avoid the inconvence of Senate confirmation.
Donald Trump inherited the worlds greatest democracy and left the beginnings of autocracy.
Now Mitch McConnell and his allies will have to decide whether to continue that mission or take a walk with Joe Biden on the road to restore our democracy.
But if they have chosen Trumpism as the future of their party, I pray for Joe Biden and the country.
Joe Biden won by more than 4 million and is calling for unity. Donald Trump lost and is inciting division.
The presidents reaction to a Dear Donald letter from the American voters has so far been appalling. His ego maniacal personality prevented him from seeing the breakup coming. He has rejected the message and is attempting to enforce a broken relationship on the country, possibly making him the most dangerous jilted lover in the world.
Many critics predicted this temper tantrum; what few imagined, including me, is that the GOP leaders would go along with the kinds of treacherous behavior that humiliates America before the world.
This is not the Republican Party that I knew. The first Republican President in my lifetime was Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero to my family and our middle class neighbors in a post-war neighborhood in St. Louis. Ike promised to end the Korean War and did. He also built the Interstate Highway System.
The second was Richard Nixon who before leaving office in disgrace opened relations with China, created the Environmental Protection Agency, and helped the cause of Native Americans.
Gerald Ford brought the country together after Watergate.
Ronald Reagan was the JFK of the conservatives who brought image and style to the White House and is credited with bringing down the Berlin Wall signaling the collapse of the Soviet Union.
His successor George H.W. Bush lost a second term because of a act of patriotism when he raised taxes to control a spiraling deficit.
His sons star-crossed Presidency saw 9/11 and never ending war in the Middle East
Then came Donald Trump. He unleashed on America a form of angry Populism that appealed to millions who felt left behind by the high-tech secular culture of the 21st Century. Trump trounced a weak Republican field and squeaked by a very capable but tone deaf Democrat.
He inherited a presidency whose power had been greatly expanded by Barack Obama who resorted to rule by executive order when blind opposition from a Republican Senate majority blocked his programs.
Trump used it on steroids. Before long he simply ignored Congress. He built 300 miles of border wall with money appropriated to fill the needs for military housing. He filled cabinet offices with so-called temporary appointees in order to avoid the inconvence of Senate confirmation.
Donald Trump inherited the worlds greatest democracy and left the beginnings of autocracy.
Now Mitch McConnell and his allies will have to decide whether to continue that mission or take a walk with Joe Biden on the road to restore our democracy.
But if they have chosen Trumpism as the future of their party, I pray for Joe Biden and the country.
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Terry Bracy: Who are the Republicans now? (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Nov 2020
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thanks terry bracy. it reminds me that the last good republican president was Ike.
bullimiami
Nov 2020
#1
The criminal gop seems to think ignoring or supporting trump holds his/their base together
Thekaspervote
Nov 2020
#2
bullimiami
(13,086 posts)1. thanks terry bracy. it reminds me that the last good republican president was Ike.
Ford was a decent enough human being but really just a historic placeholder.
It goes downhill from there.
Thats 60 years of bad, worse and total shit.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)2. The criminal gop seems to think ignoring or supporting trump holds his/their base together
NEWS FLASH for the gop..do you see how quickly trump abandoned you? Do you see how quickly the base abandoned fux snooz?
You are next or at least on the list. Your continued to support of this terrible behavior only makes more dem converts..everyday. You think youre going to reclaim the house in 22...nah!!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)3. I think it is plain as day which path they have chosen
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)4. Yup. And it's not a good day. For anybody...