Little-Acorn
Gold Member
We keep hearing various talking heads on various channels moaning and wailing that "Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party! Oh, what shall we do?".
Umm, not so. Trump isn't the one destroying the GOP.
Republican congressmen began its destruction, when they kept legislating against the will of the people. Forming plans for amnesty (under various guises) for illegal aliens. Caving to the mainstream media and spending wildly when they had control of the House, Senate, AND Presidency. Failing to stop Democrat plans for increasing regulation, growing government, implementing socialized medicine, allowing destructive anti-coal laws, and mewling there was nothing they could do about advancing liberalism, after promising their voters they would do something about it.
Every time they did things their voters didn't want, or failed to do the things they had promised and that their voters DID want, they destroyed a little more of the Republican party.
When four years ago the Republican party responded to a President who had signed Socialized Medicine into law, the Republican party chose to put up a candidate whose signature accomplishment was to sign Socialized Medicine into law himself. Masses of conservatives threw up their hand in disgust, and stayed home, not even bothering to vote. The Republican turnout for the 2012 election was far lower than that for the 2008 election, and the Democrat won by less than the deficit in Republican voters.
Now when Trump shows up and says, "We're angry about that and we're going to change it once and for all!', that's just a natural reaction to the abuse and rudderlessness of the Republican party.
Saving the Republican party doesn't involve kicking out Trump. It involves kicking out the RINOs, the open-borders pushers, the big spenders, and the whiny but-i'll-hurt-my-career CYA legislators.
Trump's ascendency is merely the inevitable result of the continuous destruction we're getting from GOP officials who continually refuse to do what their constituents want. The destruction has been going on for years, long before Trump ever tossed his hat into the ring.
And the Republican party won't get better, until those people who really destroyed it, are gone.
And they are (justly) afraid for their jobs. Even now they are planning to hijack the Republican National Convention, denying both Trump and Cruz the nomination and putting somebody else in. Sure, the rules allow that. But if they try it, they will get a reaction that hasn't been seen since the Shay's Rebellion.
And that's from their friends - Republicans. Conservatives, to be exact. Can you imagine how the liberals in the other party will react?
How Donald Trump destroyed the Republican Party in 2015
Umm, not so. Trump isn't the one destroying the GOP.
Republican congressmen began its destruction, when they kept legislating against the will of the people. Forming plans for amnesty (under various guises) for illegal aliens. Caving to the mainstream media and spending wildly when they had control of the House, Senate, AND Presidency. Failing to stop Democrat plans for increasing regulation, growing government, implementing socialized medicine, allowing destructive anti-coal laws, and mewling there was nothing they could do about advancing liberalism, after promising their voters they would do something about it.
Every time they did things their voters didn't want, or failed to do the things they had promised and that their voters DID want, they destroyed a little more of the Republican party.
When four years ago the Republican party responded to a President who had signed Socialized Medicine into law, the Republican party chose to put up a candidate whose signature accomplishment was to sign Socialized Medicine into law himself. Masses of conservatives threw up their hand in disgust, and stayed home, not even bothering to vote. The Republican turnout for the 2012 election was far lower than that for the 2008 election, and the Democrat won by less than the deficit in Republican voters.
Now when Trump shows up and says, "We're angry about that and we're going to change it once and for all!', that's just a natural reaction to the abuse and rudderlessness of the Republican party.
Saving the Republican party doesn't involve kicking out Trump. It involves kicking out the RINOs, the open-borders pushers, the big spenders, and the whiny but-i'll-hurt-my-career CYA legislators.
Trump's ascendency is merely the inevitable result of the continuous destruction we're getting from GOP officials who continually refuse to do what their constituents want. The destruction has been going on for years, long before Trump ever tossed his hat into the ring.
And the Republican party won't get better, until those people who really destroyed it, are gone.
And they are (justly) afraid for their jobs. Even now they are planning to hijack the Republican National Convention, denying both Trump and Cruz the nomination and putting somebody else in. Sure, the rules allow that. But if they try it, they will get a reaction that hasn't been seen since the Shay's Rebellion.
And that's from their friends - Republicans. Conservatives, to be exact. Can you imagine how the liberals in the other party will react?
How Donald Trump destroyed the Republican Party in 2015
