The way the current GOP differs from the GOP of the past, was that Trump was able to get their agenda done. Before Trump was president, the GOP had the same agenda as him, but the party was more than willing to just talk about it and then accept a secondary role to the Democrat party. The Democrat party would vote lockstep like trained horses, with the Republicans more thoughtful and split, before Trump.
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I'm not convinced Trump actually had an agenda. His focus was not on the GOP's usual corporate and deregulatory agenda.
Trump repaired the split in the GOP by getting their agenda done.
Please clarify this "agenda." Trump's agenda seemed to be Trump.
This is why the Republicans started to follow Trump, even though there was a rocky start due to the Russian Collusion Coup. Mitt Romney and Trump may still have a personality clash, but both can see the common goals and needed outcomes.
The 'common goals' pander to diminished prosperity, replacement panic, nativism, and racism. The diminished prosperity is legitimate, but falsely attributed.
In times of insecurity, people tend to turn to authoritarian, strong-father leaders, who offer simplistic solutions and a specific demographic to blame. Historically, these movements haven't ended well.
This get the job done approach has messed up the Democrat party and caused it to go way too far Left.
The Democratic Party has moved significantly to the
Right in recent decades. It's currently more Right than the Republican party was in the '70s and before.
The Left has not moved. The Republicans have moved far Right. The Democrats abandoned their traditional, working class base in favor of the better funding offered by the technical class. Both parties have abandoned the interests of
The People.
The Democrat party needed to go too far Left to match the drive and enthusiasm of the unified Trumpsters. This helped the GOP, since the new agenda of the Democrat party became farther from the mainstream.
How did the Democratic party move left? Details, please.
Neither major party currently represents the interests of
The People. One panders to the oligarchs and their authoritarian followers, the other to the diminishing technical class.
The pandemic sealed the fate of the Democrat party, when its true authoritarian colors were shown. The CDC is now changing course about its pandemic strategy, more in line with the GOP states, since the writing is on the walls.
Holy projection, Batman! The authoritarians are not the Democrats.
Wasn't it Trump who cancelled Obama's pandemic plans; an initiative conceived well before Covid?
The GOP, on the other hand, has made inroads with Hispanics and Black voters due to Trump. Trump did more for the Blacks and Hispanics, compared to the promises and throw a bone solutions of the Democrats. These groups did not just want welfare, but more opportunities and jobs.
Which the Republicans have been steadily chipping away at since Reagan's "welfare queen." The Republicans have
diminished the social safety net, and the opportunities for education and social advancement for the underclass.
These groups used to exclusively vote for the Democrat party, until they had the opportunity to see which side was making promises and which side was doing what it said
What have the Republicans done to benefit the working classes; cancel social services and educational opportunities? send jobs overseas?
The push too far to Left, no longer works for these groups, who now better relate to the GOP. The GOP has become the party of the blue color and middle class and all those who wish to enter the middle class. The Democrat party alliance with Wall Street, Big media, Big Tech, Intelligence Agencies, and Big government Bureaucracy and Globalist makes them appear like the party of the rich and pampered classes, who think there are above the law; dual justice system.
But it's the Republicans who've always allied with Wall Street, Big Business, and globalist Neo-Liberalism. The
Occupy Wall Street protestors were not Republicans, and it wasn't The People that were bailed out after the '08 housing crisis.
I think the Democrat party needs to be dissolved and then reinvent itself, by finding a way to get back to the middle.
Here we agree. It needs to return to its roots, perhaps merge with the Green Party.
Government should not be led by incompetent people who give the tax payer a large negative rate of return; budget deficits and interest on previous debt We need more fiscally responsible leaders. If I am not mistaken all 50 states have a balanced budget requirement. The Federal Government has too many leaders who are not competent enough to do this. To solve the problem, there may be an upcoming shift of resources back to the states, so tax payers gets a better deal, until Big Gov can get its act together.
I agree government should be the domain of experts in history, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, &c. Currently, our "leaders" are narcissists who pander to our emotions, offer simplistic solutions, and couldn't contrast Keynes and Mises to save their lives.
Big Government is the only organization with the power to curb the exploitative power of the bankers and corporations. Government should promote the general welfare; the interests of The People who are supposed to be running it.
There is so much good change, that the Democrat are sad about the glory days when the GOP was not able to stop their incompetence and reckless spending. They project and do not see that they are problem.
It's the GOP who've been undermining the middle class, who've been making healthcare, housing and education unaffordable. This is demonstrable, historical fact. It's their stated goal:
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The Republican Party opposes democracy.