An article that has proven to be timeless.

[jknowgood]

This is, unfortunately, not merely a concern for Republican voters. The conservative shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology has ominous real-world consequences for American society. The American system of government can’t work if the two sides wage all-out war upon each other: House, Senate, president, each has the power to thwart the others. In prior generations, the system evolved norms and habits to prevent this kind of stonewalling. For example: Theoretically, the party that holds the Senate could refuse to confirm any Cabinet nominees of a president of the other party. Yet until recently, this just “wasn’t done.” In fact, quite a lot of things that theoretically could be done just “weren’t done.” Now old inhibitions have given way. Things that weren’t done suddenly are done.

For example, a Senate majority leader refusing to hold a confirmation hearing for a SC nominee 11 months before the end of a presidential term.

Lol, Harris did tell us peons she would give one interview this month. She thinks herself a queen, oh that's right. She wasn't voted in, she was installed by your leaders.

 

[berg80]

Lol, Harris did tell us peons she would give one interview this month. She thinks herself a queen, oh that's right. She wasn't voted in, she was installed by your leaders.

She is the presumptive nominee because she has the support of former Biden delegates so you can stop lying about it now.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

about the time the GOP and Bush wanted to make Iraq into a state like Arkansas.

 

[jknowgood]

She is the presumptive nominee because she has the support of former Biden delegates so you can stop lying about it now.

Not one vote.

 

[80zephyr]

When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?​

Well, we know the difference between men and women.

 

[kyzr]

If you are pinning your hopes for another disastrous trump presidency on a poor debate performance by Harris then what happens when Don once again reveals himself to be an ill-informed, boorish simp?

Exactly. If the obnoxious egotistical boor shows up to the debate, Kamala wins.

If a knowledgeable, disciplined, presidential, and polite Trump shows up he should win the debate and the election.

This also assumes fair debate questions and not just ice cream questions for Kamala and "gotcha" questions for Trump.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oh goody! Yet more David frum BS.

If only Republicans would go back to being 100% cucks of the Fascist Progressives

If only

 

[Hellokitty]

3. Fox News and Talk Radio
Extremism and conflict make for bad politics but great TV. Over the past two decades, conservatism has evolved from a political philosophy into a market segment. An industry has grown up to serve that segment—and its stars have become the true thought leaders of the conservative world. The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel). As a commercial proposition, this model has worked brilliantly in the Obama era. As journalism, not so much. As a tool of political mobilization, it backfires, by inciting followers to the point at which they force leaders into confrontations where everybody loses, like the summertime showdown over the debt ceiling.

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics. Outside this alternative reality, the United States is a country dominated by a strong Christian religiosity. Within it, Christians are a persecuted minority. Outside the system, President Obama—whatever his policy errors—is a figure of imposing intellect and dignity. Within the system, he’s a pitiful nothing, unable to speak without a teleprompter, an affirmative-action phony doomed to inevitable defeat. Outside the system, social scientists worry that the U.S. is hardening into one of the most rigid class societies in the Western world, in which the children of the poor have less chance of escape than in France, Germany, or even England. Inside the system, the U.S. remains (to borrow the words of Senator Marco Rubio) “the only place in the world where it doesn’t matter who your parents were or where you came from.”

GTFOH with this. Late night comedy and comedy in general used to be funny, now it's flooded with liberal propagandist. Just about every movie show or series is filled with liberal ideology check boxes.

Trying to make Harris into Obama is backfiring. Black people are waking up and now many are realizing Obama did nothing for them. When Harris was asked what she will do for the black community her answer was nothing. Black people aren't stupid and a large % are doing their homework and educating themselves in the political arena. They are engaging in everyday political debate, and many are realizing when liberals can't defend policy they flip to orange man bad.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

This is, unfortunately, not merely a concern for Republican voters. The conservative shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology has ominous real-world consequences for American society. The American system of government can’t work if the two sides wage all-out war upon each other: House, Senate, president, each has the power to thwart the others. In prior generations, the system evolved norms and habits to prevent this kind of stonewalling. For example: Theoretically, the party that holds the Senate could refuse to confirm any Cabinet nominees of a president of the other party. Yet until recently, this just “wasn’t done.” In fact, quite a lot of things that theoretically could be done just “weren’t done.” Now old inhibitions have given way. Things that weren’t done suddenly are done.

For example, a Senate majority leader refusing to hold a confirmation hearing for a SC nominee 11 months before the end of a president's term.

For example, a Senate majority leader refusing to hold a confirmation hearing for a SC nominee 11 months before the end of a president's term.

That was awesome!

 

[Rawley]

I invite everyone to read it. Frum is an excellent writer, having some prescient observations that translate well to today's goings on. I've selected a random excerpt to give folks the flavor of his perspective.

Nov. 18, 2011

When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?​

The Bush years cannot be repudiated, but the memory of them can be discarded to make way for a new and more radical ideology, assembled from bits of the old GOP platform that were once sublimated by the party elites but now roam the land freely: ultralibertarianism, crank monetary theories, populist fury, and paranoid visions of a Democratic Party controlled by ACORN and the New Black Panthers. For the past three years, the media have praised the enthusiasm and energy the tea party has brought to the GOP. Yet it’s telling that that movement has failed time and again to produce even a remotely credible candidate for president. Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich: The list of tea-party candidates reads like the early history of the U.S. space program, a series of humiliating fizzles and explosions that never achieved liftoff. A political movement that never took governing seriously was exploited by a succession of political entrepreneurs uninterested in governing—but all too interested in merchandising. Much as viewers tune in to American Idol to laugh at the inept, borderline dysfunctional early auditions, these tea-party champions provide a ghoulish type of news entertainment each time they reveal that they know nothing about public affairs and have never attempted to learn. But Cain’s gaffe on Libya or Perry’s brain freeze on the Department of Energy are not only indicators of bad leadership. They are indicators of a crisis of followership. The tea party never demanded knowledge or concern for governance, and so of course it never got them.

David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality -- New York Magazine - Nymag

It’s a very strange experience to have your friends think you’ve gone crazy. Some will tell you so. Others will indulgently humor you. Still others will avoid you. More than a few will demand that the authorities do something to get you off the [...]

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Frum is Trump hating asshole

 

[berg80]

Not one vote.
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What matters is how many votes she gets at the convention. She'll be confirmed as the nominee the same way the Orange Menace was.

 

[berg80]

Frum is Trump hating asshole

You folks are Frum hating cultists because Dave says truthful, unflattering things about you and Trumpery.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

The reporters at yesterday's Trump press conference applauded as Trump concluded.

They apparently forgot what a real president looks like.

Orange bag O' shit.

 

[Rawley]

You folks are Frum hating cultists because Dave says truthful, unflattering things about you and Trumpery.

I don't hate him. Just pointing out he's an asshole that makes his living selling shit to twits such as yourself.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

FACT: You are a demented avenger subverted demoralized Stalinist Marxist Leninist zombie ASSHOLE.
FACT

FACT. Magaturds = weird.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

How about we wait to see how the debates pan out?

If Kamala confirms she's a moron then Trump can start planning his move back to the WH.

Sad if that's your only contingency plan. What does that say about your candidate?

 

[SeaMajor7]

FACT. Magaturds = weird.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Not one vote.
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What do you care? Aren't you voting the orange bag O' shit anyway?

 

[Lastamender]

You bring all the intellectual rigor to your post that I expected. None.

Where did you leave yours?

 

[whitehall]

Using the word "timeless" is an excuse for posting old junk when you have no opinion of your own to contribute to the political discussion. Ho hum.