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That’s a mild version (socialism). The choice in 2016 was Trump or crooked Hillary. In 2020 the choice is Trump or BLM/Antifa. Seems clear to me.
Or there is a third way, conservatism without Trump who is a RINO, or Republican in Name Only.
Have you ever heard of O’Sullivan’s law?
Game that out for me. tia
This is must listen —–>
Trump loses big. We lose the Senate. We continue to be routed in the House and in the states. After going through the Stages of Loss, Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression, we come to Acceptance. Then we will remember that there was a time when we could be proud of Republican Presidents and did not need to cringe when they spoke: Reagan, yes, but also Bush, Ford, Ike, Coolidge. and also our nominees, Romney, McCain, and Dole. And then we realize that the problem was not the conservative message, it was the terribly flawed messenger, Trump, Q-Anon and his band of misfits. After we throw Trump, Q-Anon and his band of misfits on the ash heap of history, we ask the American People to trust the Party of Reagan again.
You left out O’Sullivan’s law.
We never recover ground we lose.
I’ve posted over and over about it. David Stockman is right: the GOP has never been serious about making things go to the right.
As to the other issue, I want to say a word on behalf of Shermichael Singleton. When Clarence Thomas was growing up, he had a strong dialect. The nuns stressed upon him that he needed to be able to speak The Kings English without a dialect, if he wanted to be respected. Thomas changed his dialect. It took me some time to realize that Shermichael Singleton was black. That shows a great deal of work for him to speak The King’s English.
I literally did not know that Singleton was black until one of the hosts mentioned that. Thank you for letting me know about his podcast. I have added him to my apple feed.
Not on the ballot in 2020.
So Reagan never recovered ground? So the people of Eastern Europe have returned to Communism? Hasn’t Vietnam moved into an embrace of markets?
Correct. Since the Dems nominated a relatively sane person, Biden, instead of Sanders, Biden has my vote in 2020.
I used to think like this.
Reagan was bad on deficit spending and we never really looked back. The debt to GDP ratio’s never get better. It started under Reagan. Populism and socialism are intruding because the government is already intruding too much. The GOP never did anything about it. I’ve posted over and over. You’ve seen all of it. Look at the ACA. People are going to cry uncle for single payer at some point they have screwed everything up so bad. I’m not going to get in a big argument about it but I think it’s the same with the cultural issues.
That Chris Buskirk podcast is absolutely excellent on discussion. Cultural and problems with the economic structure.
If you keep up with the news, he’s going to be controlled by the far left.
Then let’s have a Trump-free Republican Party come back in 2022 and 2024.
The centrist Justice Anthony Kennedy retired when he did because he wanted Trump and those very Senators you hate to select his replacement.
He had been shocked when decisions which should have been 9-0 came out 5-4 instead. He realized that the two radical Democratic Justices had dragged their older and, once, more moderate Democrat colleagues far to the Left.
For the radicals, the Constitution is a useful myth to shove unpopular policies down the throats of the American people. And one thing we know, once the Left rewrites part of the Constitution, the damage is never undone.
A future, left-wing Supreme Court might, for example rule that illegal immigrants must be legalized, or must have the right to vote. It might rule, as some left-wing judicial decisions have already hinted, that keeping people from coming into the United States violates their Constitutional rights.
A Trump defeat means that America moves permanently to the left. The only question is, how far.
Yes, the defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964 was followed many years later by the victory of Ronald Reagan. But Reagan was able to do nothing about the constant ratcheting upward of entitlement programs set up by LBJ and Democratic supermajorities. Reagan may have won the Cold War, but he could not alter the path of American decline.
From the Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2020:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/defend-americas-historyand-retake-its-institutions-11594055137?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
Excerpts
All the more for the Republican Party to nominate and elect only people who can express themselves cogently and have the attention span longer than a gnat.
Like Joe Biden?
Two points.
First, this comment asserts that Republicans must nominate someone who can express themselves cogently and have the attention span longer than a gnat.
Second, Joe Biden has iron discipline when compared to Trump.
A new point. This morning, Trump was tweeting attacking Pat Toomey as well as Romney. Trump demands total fealty, but he shows no loyalty to the Republican Party.
You see what you want to see and disregard the rest.
I mean Mitt Romney the turncoat who has undermined this administration from day one. I mean Mitt Romney, the candidate I voted for and supported right up to the end, even though he proved to be a huge disappointment.
Not every black person grows up speaking with a strong dialect, much less Geechee. It was a lot of work for Clarence Thomas, we have no reason to assume it was a lot of work for Singleton.
@garyrobbins — “All the more for the Republican Party to nominate and elect only people who can express themselves cogently and have the attention span longer than a gnat.”
We should nominate more people like Mitt Romney and John McCain, and fewer people like George W. Bush and Donald Trump?
Which side are you on, anyway?
There’s a movie in which Barbra Streisand is rather improbably cast as a call girl accused of murder, and Richard Dreyfuss is her seedy attorney, after she fired the one hired by her family. “Are you any good,” she asks him.
“You had good. Now you got me.”
That reminds me. Libby Emmons is my new favorite person. She has the absolute best viewpoint on racism, racialism, political correctness, wrong think, racial harmony, woke teachers etc. etc. I think this is her best interview. It’s about 2/3 in. She was on Tucker.
https://omny.fm/shows/the-dan-proft-show/june-19-2020?in_playlist=the-dan-proft-show!podcast
@blueyeti I beg you to get her on the show. She is total Ricochet material.
Okdokie. American politics has all the class and dignity of a strip club mud wrestling match. (and the referee is just as fair)
Truth Matters?
Right matters?
Decency matters?
No. It doesnt matter, they’re all view points that can be used to attack the opponent. Democrats spent 3 years on the Russia Hoax, and then impeached the president on charges for which there is not one iota shred of evidence.
None of it matters, its all a steaming pile of fresh cow pie. Truth justice and the American way? Gone.
Gary, assuming black people don’t grow up speaking standard English: that’s enough to get you canceled right there. Naughty, naughty!
Even a Canadian sees it.
Its the entertainment value of the week.
No question Mitt Romney has been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration. But have you ever asked yourself what part Trump himself played in Romney’s defection? Romney is a lifelong Republican with impeccable credentials who found himself opposing a Republican President. Why would he do that?