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February 12, 2018 at 10:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Tom Nichols: Republicans once believed in limited government, fiscal restraint, support for the defense and national security establishments, family values, and a strong American role in maintaining global order. More than that, we were the party that believed in logic and prudence over emotion. Our hearts were perhaps too cold, but never bleeding.
Todays Republicans, however, are a party of bellowing drama queens whose elected representatives blow up spending caps, bust the deficit, and attack Americas law enforcement and national security agencies as dangerous conspirators. Their leader expects banana republic parades, coddles the Kremlin, protects violent men in positions of responsibility, and overlooks child molestation. The rank-and-file GOP members who once claimed that liberals were creating a tyrannical monarchy in the Oval Office now applaud the expansion of the presidency into a gigantic cult of personality.
So, am I still a Republican?
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atreides1
(16,093 posts)I was leaning towards crucifixion, myself...
pandr32
(11,617 posts)It is in full array every day. Anyone supporting this madness is complicit.
We need more than a fumigation, which would be the last step after we round them all up and send them to the for-profit prisons they are so fond of.
A new Republican Party needs to form.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)They are only doing as their major donors demand.
We let them be bought, and they are bought.