User talk:Buster7/Sandbox-Lunar Chariot
"This week I left the arena here each night burning with indignation at Mike Pence. I almost don’t blame Trump. He is a morally untethered, spiritually vacuous man who appears haunted by multiple personality disorders. It is the "sane" and "reasonable" Republicans who deserve the shame — the ones who stood silently by, or worse, while Donald Trump gave away their party’s sacred inheritance. For decades the Republican Party has embraced America’s open, future-oriented nationalism. But when you nominate a Silvio Berlusconi you give up a piece of that. When you nominate a blood-and-soil nationalist you’re no longer speaking in the voice of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and every Republican nominee from Reagan to McCain to Romney.
Trump has massive, obvious weaknesses as a candidate. He is a mediocre businessman who's become rich largely thanks to having a rich father and in part thanks to ethically questionable business practices...His Republican Party rivals have been unable to leverage these points against him either because ideological conservatives are incapable of criticizing them or because rank-and-file Republicans embrace ideas that the general public does not."
Avik Roy[edit]
A Republican Intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to DIE Avik Roy, a health care editor at Forbes, has worked for three Republican presidential hopefuls — Romney, Rick Perry, and Rubio. He is an establishment conservative who says;
"The Grand Old Party is going to die." He believes the Democrats will dominate national American politics for the forseeable future and that the Republican Party has lost its right to govern, because it is driven by white nationalism rather than a true commitment to equality for all Americans.
THE GRAVITATIONAL CENTER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS WHITE NATIONALISM[edit]
Goldwaters 1964 candidacy had a double effect. It forced black voters out of the GOP and it invited in white racists who had previously been Democrats. Even though many Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in Congress, the post-Goldwater party became the party of aggrieved whites. A major conservative delusion: They cannot admit that their party’s voters are motivated far more by white identity politics than by conservative ideals. In reality, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism.” So they deny the party’s racist history, that its post-1964 success was a direct result of attracting whites disillusioned by the Democrats’ embrace of civil rights. And they deny that to this day, Republican voters are driven more by white resentment than by a principled commitment to the free market and individual liberty. Trump’s politics of aggrieved white nationalism — labeling black people criminals, Latinos rapists, and Muslims terrorists — succeeds because the party’s voting base was made up of the people who once opposed civil rights.
White nationalist party[edit]
For its entire history, modern conservatisms' ideals have been wedded to and marred by white supremacism. As a result, we have literally no experience in America of a politically viable conservative movement that is un-moored from white supremacy. What we have is the alternative --- the selection of Donald Trump as the candidate of the Republican Party.
"It is true. I sweat the details of policy, whether we're talking about the exact level of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, the number of mental health facilities in Iowa, or the cost of your prescription drugs. Because it's not just a detail if it's your kid, if it's your family. It's a big deal. And it should be a big deal to your president."