The GOP has resolved that its party platform for 2020 is fealty to Donald Trump.
(Read it for yourself if you want, but I recommend doing it in a a private window or over TOR.)
Oh, for eyewash, they just tacked on their 2016 platform, which spends a lot of time criticizing the previous four years, so the GOP is essentially conceding that Trump is a disaster. But that's nitpicking.
The larger point is that the GOP is no longer a political party. It has been transformed into a cult of personality.
Let's look at past personality cults: Jim Jones. Josef Stalin. Mao Zedong. Kim Il-sung, Men to whom there was no such thing as loyalty to the state or to the faith, but only unswerving loyalty to the leader.
That's what the GOP is, now. It's the Party of Trump in all but name.
Spanks, But No Spanks
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Running on their 2016 platform as if it doesn't count that they failed miserably? How uniquely brilliant. Most of the snippets I've caught were all "Democrats Bad, fear democrats, fear change, mostly Fear all." That's a hell of a platform to run with.
It's not like I expected brilliant policy proposals from them, but something more than "be Fearful" would have been helpful I'd think.
The Party of fear, all the time and everywhere. Oh well, they earned that one.
Makes me wonder what a debate is going to be like with all fear and lies from them I suppose? Yet the News will still try to say "they were brilliant". How sad.
w3ski
Yikes. Did they read the platform from 2016?
From page 18:
"Safeguarding out liberties requires a president who will respect the Constitution's separation of powers, including the authority of Congress to write legislation and define agency authority."
So comrade, let's simply refer to this thing as the POT (no explanation necessary, eh?)
Their elected members need to have a "T" after their names.
Let's hope that they all remember to vote on 4 November.
The Republican platform is simple: "We love Fergus. Please, Fergus, don't hurt us."
Although I read something from the execrable David Frum wondering why they were afraid to publish the real platform they are running on, which he listed in batshit crazy detail.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/new-gop-platform-authoritarianism/615640/
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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