horses4courses
08-03-2020, 10:06 PM
This is a great article.
I know the source will make it unreadable for many on here.
However, there really is little to dispute.
Read it in it's entirety. Go on....I dare you!
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social
The Democratic Party is chastised around here with regularity.
I, for one, can't defend the organization completely.
They definitely have their faults and shortcomings.
The other side? Way beyond a joke for many years now.
Once upon a time, Republican legislators and party leaders claimed they cared deeply about certain foundational issues—the deficit, family values, free trade, hawkish foreign policy. Now they were cheering a twice-divorced adulterer who had run up the federal debt, sloppily imposed tariffs, and embraced the anti-American autocrats leading Russia and North Korea—a man devoid of serious thought and guiding policy principles, a self-fixated candidate who presented no intellectual framework for his presidency. Had the GOP become the party of no ideas?]
Throughout his decades as a Republican, Stevens considered this racist element a bug in the system.He now realizes it has been a feature.He huffed that the Republican Party had not merely drifted away from its core positions, as sometimes occurs with political parties: “Fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries like Russia—we’re all against that now. You have to ask, ‘Does someone abandon deeply held beliefs in three or four years?’ No. It means you didn’t ever hold them.” He added: “I feel like a guy who was working for Bernie Madoff.”]
“Republicans only exist to elect Republicans,” Stevens remarked with sadness. “They are down to one idea: How can we win?”
I know the source will make it unreadable for many on here.
However, there really is little to dispute.
Read it in it's entirety. Go on....I dare you!
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social
The Democratic Party is chastised around here with regularity.
I, for one, can't defend the organization completely.
They definitely have their faults and shortcomings.
The other side? Way beyond a joke for many years now.
Once upon a time, Republican legislators and party leaders claimed they cared deeply about certain foundational issues—the deficit, family values, free trade, hawkish foreign policy. Now they were cheering a twice-divorced adulterer who had run up the federal debt, sloppily imposed tariffs, and embraced the anti-American autocrats leading Russia and North Korea—a man devoid of serious thought and guiding policy principles, a self-fixated candidate who presented no intellectual framework for his presidency. Had the GOP become the party of no ideas?]
Throughout his decades as a Republican, Stevens considered this racist element a bug in the system.He now realizes it has been a feature.He huffed that the Republican Party had not merely drifted away from its core positions, as sometimes occurs with political parties: “Fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries like Russia—we’re all against that now. You have to ask, ‘Does someone abandon deeply held beliefs in three or four years?’ No. It means you didn’t ever hold them.” He added: “I feel like a guy who was working for Bernie Madoff.”]
“Republicans only exist to elect Republicans,” Stevens remarked with sadness. “They are down to one idea: How can we win?”