Remorseful Insider: Republican Party Was All A lie

[PoliTalker]

Trump has not destroyed the Republican Party. All he did was exploit what was already there and has been there for years and years.

The Republican Party has been about racism since WWII. It used racism to steal racist southern whites from the Democratic Party in the 1960's after they became angry at the Civil Rights Movement.

The best thing that could be done with the Republican Party is to completely destroy it and start over again from scratch.

-Author Stuart Stevens, campaign strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential run.

"Blame me: A one-time Republican operative recounts the transformation of the big-tent GOP into an organ of white nationalism.

Stevens has been working in Republican politics for decades. Looking back at the age of 65, he regrets being “focused on winning without regard for the consequences.” Whereas a Republican presidential candidate could once expect to win between 30% and 40% of the black vote, that figure tumbled in the years after Barry Goldwater, when, successively, leaders like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan sounded racist dog whistles to get the votes of insecure Southern and rural whites. Stevens himself admits, “I played the race card in my very first race,” driving just those white voters into the arms of the GOP by highlighting the fact that an otherwise unknown black man was running as an independent for Congress. Fast-forward to the present, when the party is headed by a man whose values should be anathema to it: Like the man himself, the GOP is “addicted to debt and selling a false image of success.” While Stevens does not place all blame on the current president, he avers that “in retrospect, the Clinton presidency adhered to the values espoused for decades by Republicans far more than the Trump years.” Ouch! As for the party, Stevens writes that it’s nearly impossible to imagine a GOP that adheres to the values of “compassionate conservatism” advanced only two decades ago by George W. Bush or one that will stand up to a resurgent Russia. He closes by predicting that Republicans who have given Trump free rein will one day “look back on this period of their lives with a mixture of shame, sadness, and regret,” holding some dim hope for a return to the values of old by virtue of moderate Republican governors and state legislators."

IT WAS ALL A LIE: HOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BECAME DONALD TRUMP

[Concart]

Trump has not destroyed the Republican Party. All he did was exploit what was already there and has been there for years and years.

The Republican Party has been about racism since WWII. It used racism to steal racist southern whites from the Democratic Party in the 1960's after they became angry at the Civil Rights Movement.

The best thing that could be done with the Republican Party is to completely destroy it and start over again from scratch.

-Author Stuart Stevens, campaign strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential run.

"Blame me: A one-time Republican operative recounts the transformation of the big-tent GOP into an organ of white nationalism.

Stevens has been working in Republican politics for decades. Looking back at the age of 65, he regrets being “focused on winning without regard for the consequences.” Whereas a Republican presidential candidate could once expect to win between 30% and 40% of the black vote, that figure tumbled in the years after Barry Goldwater, when, successively, leaders like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan sounded racist dog whistles to get the votes of insecure Southern and rural whites. Stevens himself admits, “I played the race card in my very first race,” driving just those white voters into the arms of the GOP by highlighting the fact that an otherwise unknown black man was running as an independent for Congress. Fast-forward to the present, when the party is headed by a man whose values should be anathema to it: Like the man himself, the GOP is “addicted to debt and selling a false image of success.” While Stevens does not place all blame on the current president, he avers that “in retrospect, the Clinton presidency adhered to the values espoused for decades by Republicans far more than the Trump years.” Ouch! As for the party, Stevens writes that it’s nearly impossible to imagine a GOP that adheres to the values of “compassionate conservatism” advanced only two decades ago by George W. Bush or one that will stand up to a resurgent Russia. He closes by predicting that Republicans who have given Trump free rein will one day “look back on this period of their lives with a mixture of shame, sadness, and regret,” holding some dim hope for a return to the values of old by virtue of moderate Republican governors and state legislators."

IT WAS ALL A LIE: HOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BECAME DONALD TRUMP

Spot on. Republicans let the genie out of the bottle. Their first wish was to take over the South. Wish granted, but it came with a price. You had to wink and nod at overt racists and support them through your dog whistles (welfare queens, etc). The second wish was given to the white nationalist wing of the party, and they got Donald Trump. It's pretty hard now to feel sorry for Republicans who want to put the genie away. Wish three is an authoritarian white supremacist regime. The group that took the cork out of the bottle doesn't want that. Oops. Should have thought of that in the first place. I'm willing to work with them to tame the genie, but don't expect me to thank them for their new found religion.

[TexanManWithPlans]

The Republican Party will be dead within one generation. There will never be another Republican POTUS.

[PostmodernProphet]

I guess if I was stupid enough to say that I would be remorseful as well......

[PoliTalker]

William F Buckley was a racist.

[Phantasmal]

William F Buckley was a racist.

Good article about the subject

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/05/...uckley-racism/

[ExpressLane]

RINO

[cawacko]

William F Buckley was a racist.

Interesting. We all know what he wrote in '57 and then he evolved quite a bit from those positions. Now I know white liberals LOVE to call others racist because many of you feel it absolves of your own racism but you do what you have to do.

[PoliTalker]

Hello Phantasmal,

Good article about the subject

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/05/...uckley-racism/

Good stuff: "In his book, Stevens apologizes for his role in propping up a Republican Party he now considers to be little more than a “white grievance party” cynically exploiting racism in the pursuit of power. "

Thanks.

[PoliTalker]

Hello cawacko,

Interesting. We all know what he wrote in '57 and then he evolved quite a bit from those positions. Now I know white liberals LOVE to call others racist because many of you feel it absolves of your own racism but you do what you have to do.

It is not a denial of racism for racists to call others racist. It is an ad hominem.

[cawacko]

Hello cawacko,



It is not a denial of racism for racists to call others racist. It is an ad hominem.

Break that one down for me please, i'm not following.

[PoliTalker]

Hello cawacko,

Break that one down for me please, i'm not following.

It's like the old schoolyard snappy comeback: 'I'm rubber, you're glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you.'

When a racist is called out for racism, one of the most common responses is to claim that the caller is actually the racist.

It's a circular argument in an attempt to shift the focus away from the racist and instead aim it at anyone calling them out for racism.

Sometimes manifested as a claim that 'blacks are actually the racists.'

[Earl]

Hello cawacko,



It's like the old schoolyard snappy comeback: 'I'm rubber, you're glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you.'

When a racist is called out for racism, one of the most common responses is to claim that the caller is actually the racist.

It's a circular argument in an attempt to shift the focus away from the racist and instead aim it at anyone calling them out for racism.

Sometimes manifested as a claim that 'blacks are actually the racists.'

What about a cabron who cheers the economic loss for millions of millions of Americans and their families caused by the virus from China that China failed to contain...as you did?

[Earl]

Hello cawacko,



It's like the old schoolyard snappy comeback: 'I'm rubber, you're glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you.'

When a racist is called out for racism, one of the most common responses is to claim that the caller is actually the racist.

It's a circular argument in an attempt to shift the focus away from the racist and instead aim it at anyone calling them out for racism.

Sometimes manifested as a claim that 'blacks are actually the racists.'

Blacks call each other the n word, Snowflake.

Is that racism?

[Yakuda]

William F Buckley was a racist.

Prove it. I know your mother told you that whatever you said was smart and wonderful but the rest of us need more than your brain droppings.