2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe GOP is becoming the party of exclusion. Who wants to be a part of that? By Kathleen Parker
PHILADELPHIA
A longtime Republican friend texted just as the Democratic National Convention was burying itself in balloons: Im sorry, she said, Im a Democrat. Another Republican friend called after President Obama spoke Wednesday night: Im sorry, he said, Im a Democrat.
No apologies necessary. But thanks surely go to Donald Trump and his spineless Republican enablers. The party of Lincoln, a sometimes laughable bragging point for diehards whose racial attitudes survived the Civil War intact, is long gone. Its dissolution began at least with Richard Nixon, who embraced a Southern strategy that pandered to racists and set the course for todays GOP.
The party of angry men and patient women tried to add a little sugar and spice, plunging itself ever lower on the curve when it embraced a cute little winkin, blinkin and noddin gal-gov from Alaska as vice-presidential running mate to John McCain and a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Next came the tea party movement, to which Sarah Palin briefly attached her Winnebago, followed by the government shutdown, and culminating with the glittering, twittering Tower of Trump.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conservative-but-not-republican/2016/07/29/a8941a8c-55cf-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html
greatauntoftriplets
(175,763 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)is getting quite long, isn't it? David Brooks, Erik Erikson, George Will, Kathleen Parker and Jennifer Rubin jump to mind as just a few folks abandoning the S.S. Trumptanic
greatauntoftriplets
(175,763 posts)The others, yes. Interesting times.
mopinko
(70,283 posts)damn. rats leavin a sinking ship.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,763 posts)mopinko
(70,283 posts)they own this mess. i hope it gnaws on them in the still of the night.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,763 posts)Cha
(297,888 posts)Mahalo, Don~
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)for Ronnie, or am I thinking of someone else?
duncang
(1,907 posts)If he did become prez. He would throw a fit if they did not kiss butt every day and if they didn't do as he wanted he would go after them.
Wednesdays
(17,455 posts)The second half of the article devolved into a navel-gazing defense of conservativism. Should have quit while still ahead.