GOP Convention Will Forgo New Platform, Instead 'Enthusiastically Support' Trump Agenda

[TomCADem]

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Source: Daily Beast

The Republican Party will not adopt a new platform at its convention beginning Monday night and will instead maintain the party’s 2016 platform and broad support for President Donald Trump’s agenda, the Republican National Committee announced Sunday. In a resolution, the party stated that it would “continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda” and would not issue a new party platform until 2024, citing the scaled-back convention and inability for the Convention Committee on Platform to meet. It remains unclear what Trump’s second-term agenda is, as he has repeatedly failed to describe policies he plans to enact. The GOP resolution also took a swing at the media, asserting that it has “misrepresented the implications of the RNC not adopting a new platform in 2020.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-convention-will-forgo-new-platform-instead-enthusiastically-support-trump-agenda

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WOW. Just blind fealty.

[nycbos]

1. Pledge to Hedley Lamarr

[frazzled]

2. The Make-It-Up-As-You-Go-Along Party

What lazy SOBs. Whatever Dear Leader says, as long as he remains leader. It's shocking and distressing.

Yes, I know that platforms are fungible documents, rarely followed by the actual enactment of laws and policies. In one sense, hardly worth the paper they're written on. But at least they are statements of aspiration for the party. Why have a party at all if you aren't going to at least make an outline of what it stands for?

The Republican Party apparently no longer stands for anything, except for an unstable, ignorant man and his daily whims.

[catrose]

3. At least it's honest. They'll support the Trump Agenda whatever it is this minute.

[The Daily Irishman]

4. Xi Jinping Thought,

American Style.

[Ligyron]

5. HA! Good luck with that.

It's going to be an epic rout.

It just gets better every day.

[sakabatou]

6. So they same ol' song and dance of sucking up to their orange god

[patphil]

7. Reminds me of the old RCA ads.

The ones where the dog is listening intently to the radio speaker where he hears, "his master's voice".

It doesn't take much of a brain to be subservient. A dog's level of intelligence is more than enough.

So, Trump says, "sit, roll over, lie down, beg, speak, attack" and his loyal pets will gladly do it.

Why do they need to develop a party platform when they can have it dictated to them by their master?

[Blue Owl]

8. The agenda will be released in two weeks

[SeattleVet]

9. Keeping the 2016 platform is required by their own rules, and it's pretty damning to them.

May be one of the biggest self-owns in history!

They are adjourning without adopting a new platform, and keeping their existing platform from 2016 which has several dozen sections where they condemn "the current president", administration, etc.

The platform is available online (the NYT article links to it), and it is scathing in th way it talks about the 'current occupant' of the White House. Way to go, GOPers!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/republican-platform.html

The Republican National Committee’s 2020 platform document describes in detail how terrible the “current president” and “current administration” are. The party apparently copied and pasted the same language it adopted during its 2016 convention, when the “current chief executive” so despised was Barack Obama. Despite the mistakes, some Republicans are happy with the rollover from 2016. Melody Potter, who sat on the RNC’s platform committee, told The New York Times, “The 2016 platform is the best one we’ve had in 40 years, so I’m fine with renewing it and extending it to 2024.” The RNC copied its 2016 predecessor because President Trump decided to relocate the Republican National Convention from North Carolina after clashes with the state’s governor over coronavirus precautions, so delegates won’t convene to determine a new platform.

“The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk,” the platform reads. “Its gravest peril originates in the White House, the current occupant of which has launched a campaign, both at home and internationally, to subjugate it to agents of government.”

The warning about speech online is one of more than three dozen unflattering references to either the “current president,” “current chief executive,” “current administration,” people “currently in control” of policy, or the “current occupant” of the White House that appear in the Republican platform. Adopted at the party’s 2016 convention, it has been carried over through 2024 after the executive committee of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday chose not to adopt a new platform for 2020.

The platform censures the “current” president — who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama — and his administration for, among other things, imposing “a social and cultural revolution,” causing a “huge increase in the national debt” and damaging relationships with international partners.

[FarPoint]

10. This is Not the GOP/republican Party...

It is only now the Party of tRump....why has this no impact on those claiming to actually be republicans?

[Gothmog]

11. The @gop has given in to the cult of personality of @realDonaldTrump .

Link to tweet

[progree]

12. Good discussion at this earlier LBN story 😂

Republicans to forego party platform in favor of full support for Trump's agenda
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142567593

[JudyM]

13. Locking

Alerted on as a dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142567593

Please continue discussion in that thread.