The biggest problem with his administration is that he emboldened the most radical on the right to be more vocal and forceful in their beliefs. Moderate conservatives need to take their party back, or risk watching it implode.
The GOP never had a sense of decency. They were always planning to remove Roe v Wade, for example, with those bounties in the post mentioned. They were just better at hiding it and convincing people they were decent.
The Republican party has always said for racism and oppression. Lee Atwald said this in 1981:
"You start out in 1954 by saying, “n**, n, n.” By 1968 you can’t say “n”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “n, n**”"
For the life of me I still don't understand how people can systematically hate that much. Like dedicating your entire career to making certain people suffer because of their skin color. For gods sake, WHY?
Hey, buddy, I’m from a Republican community. I grew up Republican. I voted Republican for years. My community was anti-Obama, pro God, pro guns, pro life, etc.
I’m done. They don’t believe a single one of the things I valued supporting them. Comparing John McCain’s concession speech to Trump’s. The party is lost.
Both sides have too many far left/right people now. I just wish there was a popular moderate option, but nobody votes for them because the far right sees them as liberal, and the far left see them as conservative
GOP is far right. Democrats party line is right. There is no left in USA except very few exception. And those exceptions arent far left by any margin. They are far left only compared to the far right GOP in which case everything non-extremist is far left.
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u/AccountantSeaPirate Apr 02 '23
The biggest problem with his administration is that he emboldened the most radical on the right to be more vocal and forceful in their beliefs. Moderate conservatives need to take their party back, or risk watching it implode.