Trump is a 'kamikaze president' leading the Republican Party to its own destruction: Conservative jo
Trump is a ‘kamikaze president’ leading the Republican Party to its own destruction: Conservative journalist
Published 9 mins ago on August 24, 2020
By Brad Reed
Veteran conservative journalist Tim Alberta has written a lengthy report for Politico detailing the state of the current Republican Party — and he’s concluded that the party has no ideas other than mindlessly supporting President Donald Trump.
In previewing this week’s Republican National Convention, Alberta writes that most of the RNC will be devoted to venting culture war grievances, while very little time will be spent outlining plans to make life better for the American people.
“The party of rugged individualism will spend as much time whining as reveling,” he writes. “Headliners will take turns bemoaning media bias, denouncing the obstructionist Democrats, cursing the unfair timing of the coronavirus, decrying their loss of culture, rebuking corporate America for kneeling at the altar of social justice and accusing the Deep State of stacking the deck against them.”
Much of this, argues Alberta, can be traced to Trump’s leadership, which has sustained itself by fighting non-stop battles against his political opponents, even when it comes at the expense of Americans’ well being.
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. . .other than "owning the libs"
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There is a place in politics for fighting—and, yes, for culture wars. Some of the great policy debates of this century, from abortion to same-sex marriage to marijuana legalization, were shaped more by social movements than policy debates. The problem for Republicans is that most of the fights they’re picking nowadays are futile at best and foolhardy at worst. NASCAR? Confederate flags? Goya beans? Face masks? To the degree any of these issues move the needle politically, Republicans are on the wrong side of them. What’s worse, there is no connective tissue. There is no focus to the GOP’s incessant appetite for fighting. That’s how they wound up with Trump in the first place. That’s how they’re winding up with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Laura Loomer. When your war is boundless and undefined, you end up sharing foxholes with some pretty weird allies.
“The GOP has been here before with John Birchers and it didn’t end well,” said Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator who has been a vocal if terribly inconsistent Trump critic. “The party of Lincoln and Reagan ought to have something big and bold to offer the country, but it’s got way too many grifters selling grievance politics.”
