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(37,620 posts) Wed Jul 4, 2018, 09:24 PM Jul 2018

Conservative pens scathing July 4th column calling for destruction of 'white-nationalist' GOP [View all]

Conservative columnist pens scathing July 4th column calling for destruction of ‘white-nationalist’ GOP

In a blistering opinion piece in the Washington Post, long-time conservative commentator Max Boot called out the Republican Party for becoming the “white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe” under President Donald Trump and advocated for the complete destruction of the GOP as it now stands.

According to Boot, “‘Should I stay or should I go now?’ That question, posed by the eminent political philosophers known as The Clash, is one that confronts any Republican with a glimmer of conscience. You used to belong to a conservative party with a white-nationalist fringe. Now it’s a white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe. If you’re part of that fringe, what should you do?”

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“That is why I join Will and other principled conservatives, both current and former Republicans, in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November,” he concluded. “Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must first be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/conservative-columnist-pens-scathing-july-4th-column-calling-destruction-white-nationalist-gop/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-left-the-republican-party-now-i-want-democrats-to-take-over/2018/07/03/54a4007a-7e38-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4bbd4b33cca0

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Conservative pens scathing July 4th column calling for destruction of 'white-nationalist' GOP [View all] catbyte Jul 2018 OP

The GOP is dead. This is new. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2018 #1

K&R... spanone Jul 2018 #2

K&R Scurrilous Jul 2018 #3

PFFT. reagan's welfare queens + nixon + southern strategy. the GOP is built pansypoo53219 Jul 2018 #4

People like that conservative commentator cheered those efforts on, Blue_true Jul 2018 #8

Said it before and I'll say it again... Zoonart Jul 2018 #34

His state's rights speech at Philadelphia Mississippi n/t hibbing Jul 2018 #15

Yep Cosmocat Jul 2018 #27

They just don't like it that their party is so brazen and open about their ugly beliefs The Genealogist Jul 2018 #33

A-L-L R-I-G-H-T. We're gonna take back at least the House in Nov. brush Jul 2018 #5

Not all republicans are racist. Blue_true Jul 2018 #10

You say not all repugs are racist... but they sure put up with them... brush Jul 2018 #24

THIS Cosmocat Jul 2018 #28

They did not say anything until now that it is affecting their investment returns. Dustlawyer Jul 2018 #35

The Tea Party started this trend FakeNoose Jul 2018 #32

One can be a conservative and a Democrat. mwooldri Jul 2018 #6

I have said before. Blue_true Jul 2018 #7

I can't see that happening - not in the foreseeable future. KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2018 #14

The "sane" republicans, as few as they are. Blue_true Jul 2018 #19

fascism bdamomma Jul 2018 #9

The interesting thing. Blue_true Jul 2018 #11

Yes but those repigs bdamomma Jul 2018 #36

This Is All Hands On Deck colsohlibgal Jul 2018 #12

Max Boot?... lame54 Jul 2018 #13

Absent white nationalism, the Republican Party would cease to be viable. Garrett78 Jul 2018 #16

Their demographics are shrinking Major Nikon Jul 2018 #20

They've seen the writing on the wall, and they've become increasingly desperate to erase it. Garrett78 Jul 2018 #21

Keep it up, Max.. ya'll vote Democratic! Cha Jul 2018 #17

Honestly, I'm not sure the GOP can survive. PatrickforO Jul 2018 #18

I hope there are enough of the intelligent, educated conservatives to make a difference. Honeycombe8 Jul 2018 #22

No, they won't. Not the ones who pretend they didn't make this happen JHB Jul 2018 #30

KnR Hekate Jul 2018 #23

K&R ck4829 Jul 2018 #25

K and R oasis Jul 2018 #26

Boot leaves out the part where those "principled conservatives"... JHB Jul 2018 #29

last time I looked, the repubs run things in this country, and have basically, since about '92 KG Jul 2018 #31

How was he okay with being in a party with a white nationalist fringe? If I found myself Neema Jul 2018 #37