8 thoughts on “‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished”
A taste:
And therein lies Trump's real threat on foreign policy: He is demonstrating that it would be within the Republican Party's political interests to jettison the neoconservatives.
He has proven that there is a real constituency for opposing neoconservatism among Republicans; that an anti-neoconservative foreign policy — even one as incoherent and nonsensical as his own — can succeed with GOP voters, and would have a far better chance in a national election.
He is showing, in other words, that the Republican Party has already left the neoconservatives behind, whether party elites recognize this or not.
Meh, these fucks are as ingrained into American culture and the GOP as strongly as evangelicals, the ammosexual lobby and tax cutters — at > $1 trillion per year. They are going nowhere fast.
This is part of a larger problem that the GOP has had with Trump, and with its own investment in neoconservative orthodoxy. The billionaire businessman has exploited divisions between the Republican electorate and the Republican establishment, advocating for policies that are popular with voters but not with party elites.,,
…this may be, in part, driving the GOP establishment's opposition to Trump: a belief, possibly correct, that party elites will lose their ability to impose policy positions that are unpopular with their voters.
"The fear inspired by Trump is not merely that he would blow the party’s chances of winning the presidency (though he probably would), or even that he would saddle it with long-term damage among the growing Latino bloc (though he would do that as well)," Chait writes. "It is that Trump would release the conservative movement’s policy hammerlock on the Republican Party."
Ding ding ding! And let the GOP infighting continue!
A taste:
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Never forget!
Heckuva job!
Nah, according to the article the neocons can't be blamed for domestic clusterfucks.
Meh, these fucks are as ingrained into American culture and the GOP as strongly as evangelicals, the ammosexual lobby and tax cutters — at > $1 trillion per year. They are going nowhere fast.
Ding ding ding! And let the GOP infighting continue!
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is neither Presidential nor about Freedom. Talk amongst yourselves!