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My Republican Party
This is my Republican Party. Trump and Nixon are missing. Is that Coolidge between Lincoln and TR?
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My fond hope is to airbrush Trump from American History, “as if it never happened.” Trump will someday be held with the same revulsion of Joe McCarthy, a terrible, terrible mistake where we lost our way.
What you call “blasphemy” is what actually happened. The painting is titled “The Impeachment Mob”. And Mitt Romney sided with the Democrats on that.
The painting comes with a poem:
Romney will be seen as a saint who is worthy of a profile in courage. Historians will wonder if John McCain would have also had the similar testicular fortitude. I think that McCain would have along with Jeff Flake, a former Arizona Senator. With McCain’s additional vote, perhaps we would have had witnesses, and would have also gotten votes from Collins, Murkowski and Alexander. Oh, well.
We can probably trace the government’s ownership of way too much US land (should belong to US citizens) to Teddy Roosevelt. And I don’t like that increasingly it takes a Trump administration executive order to protect Americans when all Congress seems to be good for is find more ways to indebt us all (think I read we’re up around $100,000 per American now?)
The TR contribution I appreciate is his anti-trust legacy. The negative part of Standard Oil’s legacy lives on today in the rise of unions (which were necessary to combat abuse of American workers back then) and hold on US foreign policy particularly in Middle East.
Sometimes I think people are too hard on you here Gary but I think you’re losing the run of yourself here. Trump is what he is, I find many of his personal attributes off putting and his personal life in the past with all the affairs and divorces etc. But I don’t have to date him or marry him.
From the moment he was elected, we’ve had nothing but media outrage over what he is, not what he’s done. He’s to blame for every bad thing that’s happened in your country since 2016, and by proxy for every bad thing before. I live in the middle of nowhere in Ireland Gary and not one hour from my house there’s a protest with F Trump banners. The world is going off the rails from hatred for one man for what he is, not for what he does. Does the vision of the world the democrats have been showing you not frighten you? Because it scares the hell out of me.
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You’d think he’d have learned.
That was my small take. What’s that about?
It’s a binary result. President Trump or Nancy and the looters, and their enablers like Mitt and others.
Clearly you live in romantisized dream world that never has nor ever will exist.
Except the Verona files and other papers show McCarthy was right.
Or Trump will be recognized as one trying to install a bulwark against the destructive forces trying to destroy America.
One could almost describe it as a “binary choice”.
The guy that ran for re-election on overturning the ACA, and then cast the deciding vote to keep it?
So you want to “memory hole” Trump and his administration(s)? How very Orwellian, nay, totalitarian of you.
Gary, I think this illustrates why you are unable to convince your friends here at Ricochet. The above indicates your revulsion is likely connected to political positions, issues, and actions. But your constant refrain on Trump is about character but you don’t even mention Kennedy in your revulsion comment about the Democrat presidents. I must assume you think his character is acceptable. Judging someone like Trump that way appears unChristian as well, if that part means anything to you.
Yes, and the Democrats have certainly cleared the air with respect to where they want to take us.
You’re referencing Harry Potter? Is a millennial now running the Gary Robbins account?
How very Stalinist of you. But then you’re supporting the right party if that’s your wish.
Eisenhower was a legendary poker player. He is a spectator.
Legend has it, Nixon used war time poker winnings as seed money for his first congressional campaign. He’s missing completely.
Another demonstration of how Americans forget their own history.
I respectfully reject this. And if you force me to make a binary choice, for the first time since 1972 I will be voting for a Democrat for President.
What Senator McCain said was that the repeal of the ACA needed to be returned to the Senate Health committee under regular order and if it wasn’t, he would vote against its repeal. It wasn’t referred to the Health Committee and McCain followed through with his statement.
I want to relegate Trump and Trumpism to the ash heap of history.
Actually no. I am simply more repulsed by Jackson, Wilson, FDR and Johnson.
Ike looks better and better. He was constantly misunderestimated.
Party worship is creepy and un-American.
Many of those Republicans have nothing in common outside of their party. Teddy Roosevelt was the first legislative agenda, executive abuse president. Nixon gave the left everything they wanted, which is why it baffles me that liberals hate him so much. And it’s hard to see anything either George Bush has in common with Calvin Coolidge.
McCain and Romney will both be remembered for not having the testicular fortitude to live up to their promise to try win an election against a Socialist who never had a job before.
And that’s why you have Trump.
He said that during the campaign? Seems like an unusual campaign statement.
What I know is that he campaigned on repeal, then, knowing that *his* vote would kill repeal, went ahead and voted it down. He can retroactively try to justify it all he wants – it sounds a lot like “I voted for it before I voted against it”.
So what you’re saying is when the Democrats present their most overt and militantly progressive party platform since the McGovernites threw Bill Daley and the Chicago machine pols out of the DNC Convention in Miami 48 years ago, for their lack of fidelity to The Cause, this is the year you pick to come home to the Democratic Party?
Yeah, that’s quite different than your original statement. “Ash heap of history” means (at least to me) that a system or philosophy has been found severely wanting and is relegated to history, only used as instruction on what doesn’t work.
What you actually said, “…airbrush Trump from American History, ‘as if it never happened,'” is exactly what Stalin and other totalitarians did.
You know we can read and quote what you write and comment here, right?