Republicans to forego party platform in favor of full support for Trump's agenda

[UpInArms]

Source: Marketwatch

The Republican National Committee will go without a traditional policy platform at the upcoming GOP convention, and said instead it “will continue to enthusiastically support the president’s America-first agenda.”

In a statement issued Sunday, the RNC said it adopted a resolution Saturday to go without a platform due to the difficulties presented by the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced the convention to significantly scale back.

“The RNC has unanimously voted to forego the Convention Committee on Platform, in appreciation of the fact that it did not want a small contingent of delegates formulating a new platform without the breadth of perspectives within the ever-growing Republican movement,” the RNC said.

... snip ...

It did not mention any specific policies or goals. It is highly unusual for a major party to entirely forego a platform. Traditionally, party platforms are used to formally lay out the party and candidate’s ideas, beliefs and goals. In 2016, the GOP platform was 54 pages long. This year’s Democratic platform is 91 pages long.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/republicans-to-forego-party-platform-in-favor-of-full-support-for-trumps-agenda-2020-08-23?mod=mw_latestnews

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The Republican Party has committed suicide ... they are dead ...

It is now Cult Trump all the way.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Are they bailing on the Trump convention?

Or simply acknowledging that they stand for nothing because Dear Leader knows everything?

[UpInArms]

2. Supporting trump all the way

No party platform ... they have renounced everything else by dismissing a platform.

[GopherGal]

30. They stand for nothing

except bending the knee to Trump

[George II]

3. They decided to forego a platform because if they did trump would have to read it, and the know....

....his attention span is only about 140 characters.

[klook]

4. "Trump's agenda" -- if he ever figures out what the heck it is!

Wow, we are really in Crazytown now.

[Lock him up.]

18. Grift, lie, steal, play golf, cheat & corrupt everyone around, demand loyalty and return none...

... betray Oath of Office, betray troops having bounties on their heads...
... for short: A true mob bo$$ and a Racist to the bones.

Sums it up. (hmm... add sexual pRedator, Rapi$t, Banks & Tax fRaud$ter + money laundeRer.)

RICO the tRump MOB

[AleksS]

5. How do they NOT see the fascist/authoritarian/dictator/cult of personality issues???!!?

Warning #1) Their "dear leader" will headline every day at the convention.
Warning #2) 50% of all other speakers will be Trump-adjacent or related.
Warning #3) Their party is forsaking a platform, instead opting to "just do whatever Trump wants."

How can even the most brain-dead republican not noticing this???? This is straight North Korea, Russia, dictator type stuff!

If trump comes out in a pseudo-military outfit bedecked with dozens of medals, THEN will they get it?

I thought that Borat movie, The Dictator, was a parody, but apparently, it was a documentary!

[onetexan]

9. When did they ever care anyway? The John Mccains of the party are gone. There are no more moral

consciences remaining. The tea party Republicans took over the party & gave it to 45, who has corrupted anything left and usurped it for his own. It is now a fascist, racist, extremist party.

[Nexus2]

10. Well...

If trump comes out in a pseudo-military outfit bedecked with dozens of medals, THEN will they get it?

Possibly, but it still won't change.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. What agenda? He couldn't even tell Hannity what his priorities for a 2nd term would be nt

[thenelm1]

13. My first thought as well.

Other than trying to screw over his every perceived enemy, he has no agenda.

[Journeyman]

7. Seems a clever way to distance themselves from Trump, so when he goes down in flames . . .

they'll be able to eventually post something like a Party platform and claim they were always separate from Cheeto Benito.

[onetexan]

11. That also came to mind. This may be one way the Repugs can try to redeem themselves. and maybe

for the better in the long run. When Biden wins the GOP will be deep-sixed for a long time. I'm hoping it will remain that way.

[Journeyman]

17. I wish I shared your optimism . . .

I remember too well the similar beliefs I held when Nixon resigned, yet by the next election (1976) Republicans were fiercely in contention, and by 1980 had won the Whitehouse again. Then held it 24 of the next 44 years.

And Trump's support today is considerably higher than what Nixon had in the final days of his maladministration.

No matter how much Trump loses by, I expect a strong Republican resurgence in 2024 (if not 2022).

[onetexan]

20. Republicans regained power in the early 80s because Carter was such a weak president during the Iran

hostage crisis. Love President Carter for his kind heart and humanitarian works, but he was not a good leader.

As Robert Reich has written, "In theory, politics requires both capacities – to govern, but also to fight to attain and retain power. The dysfunction today is that Republicans can’t govern and Democrats can’t fight."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/16/us-election-democrats-republicans-trump

We need to learn to fight better, harder, stop capitulating & stop giving concessions to Republicans all the time for fear of being partisan. Obama appointed some conservatives (e.g. John Huntsman who later said crap about him) and in 2016 refrained from going up against Mcconnell re: foreign election meddling after he threatened Obama was politicizing the election. Love Obama but to me that was a costly mistake. He should have made it public to Americans what was happening.

[dweller]

8. ah, Labor Day ..

aka, fukitall..


✌🏼

[R Merm]

12. Wondering if they did come up with a platform,

then at the last minute dear leader objected to it and there was no time to rewrite before the convention.

[lastlib]

14. Makes sense. They're bereft of ideas.

Tax cuts for rich people people has LO-O-ONNNG since worn out its welcome. GOPeeDon'tCare don't fly. Smashing unions isn't making them any new friends. Cutting education to keep people stoopid has resulted in people too stoopid to read a platform anyway. All they got left is God, and trump himself pretty well shatters that. What else can they do?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Republicons have welded themselves to tRump. Never let voters forget that. Greed Over People. nt

[turbinetree]

16. saw this picture of authoritarianism when the republicans wouldn't place anyone on there ballot

to challenge the traitor..................fascism in the making.....................

[NellieStarbuck]

19. " . . . the ever-growing Republican movement" -- that's a laffriot.

[IronLionZion]

21. Ah yes the pandemic prevents them from having a platform

since COVID has affected their brains and hearts so much that they don't know what they stand for

[olddad65]

22. I think you mean Trumps 'Fuck America First' agenda.

[cstanleytech]

23. Sounds like a replay of Germany pre WWII.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. "The Enabling Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent ...

... of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society. The law was passed on March 23, 1933, and published the following day.
...
The Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich is also known as the Enabling Act. Passed on March 23, 1933, and proclaimed the next day, it became the cornerstone of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship. The act allowed him to enact laws, including ones that violated the Weimar Constitution, without approval of either parliament or Reich President von Hindenburg."

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-enabling-act

OK, that's law, not party policy, but this is the first step - say that whatever Trump decides, at that moment, to be policy, is policy. And Trump is the most fickle politician there is. This is installing Trump as The Leader.

(Side note: the fundamental concept of "Republican" is literally that the state is a "thing belonging the the public". It has checks and balances to avoid any one person getting too much power. This is a complete repudiation of their founding principle, and a transition from the Republican Party to the Imperial Cult. It was notable that Rome's change from a Republic to an Empire involved the deification of the Emperor.)

[keithbvadu2]

24. +1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_platform

A political party platform or program is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues. "Plank" is the term often given to the components of the political platform – the opinions and viewpoints about individual topics, as held by a party, person, or organization. The word "plank" depicts a component of an overall political platform, as a metaphorical reference to a basic stage made out of boards or planks of wood. The metaphor can return to its literal origin when public speaking or debates are actually held upon a physical platform.

A party platform is sometimes referred to as a manifesto[1] or a political platform. Across the Western world, political parties are highly likely to fulfill their election promises.[2]

[keithbvadu2]

25. No principles for 2020

2016 Republican Party Platform

With this platform, we the Republican Party reaffirm the principles that unite us in a common purpose.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2016-republican-party-platform

[ouija]

26. If

He would only appear in military clothing with medals and sunglasses, that would be the best.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. "highly unusual for a major party to entirely forego a platform"

The media should just stop. I expect that this is UNPRECEDENTED (as in "never happened before" ), and should not be minimized or glossed over/made acceptable by calling it "highly unusual".

If anything, this should seal the GOP's fate as being inextricably tied to 45, lock, stock, and barrel. Their "party" is officially dissolved.

[machoneman]

34. NOT highly unusual. It's totally unprecedented in modern politics, heck, even back to our founding...

...as a republic. There is far more to this story that we'll only learn about later. I agree that the Republiscum Party did have a platform but it must have been rejected by Trumpers as not having enough greed, angst, hurt, lying and other bad things in it for the OrangeMenace to sign off on it. Oh, and not enough graft, bribes, and law-breaking too.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. Their "platform" has become "ad hoc"

where they change the rules by the minute to fit the outcome they want and/or when the tweet order comes through.

[Harker]

29. So they're going all in

to keep this "incredible thing" going.

Individually, they'll have a lot of explaining to do later.

[sanatanadharma]

31. RNC does't want small contingent of delegates formulating a new platform, instead leaves it to one

The one, not the few, will decide for the many.

“The RNC has unanimously voted to forego the Convention Committee on Platform, in appreciation of the fact that it did not want a small contingent of delegates formulating a new platform without the breadth of perspectives within the ever-growing Republican movement,” the RNC said.

Can't let the few decide when the decider can do it all. Believe me, only he can do it all.
No need to consider perspectives whether growing or shrinking; no facts, no logic, no morals.

[Paladin]

32. Thanks for this, trumpians. (nt)

[MineralMan]

33. Now They Are All Trumplicans.

[Calista241]

36. I feel like this is because Trump is a lazy ass and didn't want to sit down with someone

to lay out some strategies.