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| If Trump destroys GOP, he may take DNC down with him |
| 2016-05-05 |
| h/t Instapundit If the Republican Party dies, will it take the Democrats with it? George Will, among others, predicts that if Donald Trump wins the nomination and the presidency -- the first, not much of an "if" after Indiana, the second quite a large one -- it will destroy the Republican Party. I think he's probably right, though it depends what you mean by "destroy." There would still be something called the Republican Party under a President Trump; it just won't be the same anymore. This sort of thing happens all the time in business and entertainment. 3M started out as a mining company; now it makes sticky notes (and seemingly a trillion other things). Maybe giving Trump the lead vocals of the GOP will be like when Van Halen replaced David Lee Roth with Sammy Hagar -- not the same band, but pretty successful all the same. That’s a bad analogy, of course. Because Hagar was a good frontman with the full support of his band. Give Trump the mic, and a lot of the most talented people in the Republican Party will drop their instruments and walk off the stage. But a lot of new people might like the show. The Trump campaign points to all the working-class Democrats and independents flocking to his message, nowhere more so than in Indiana on Tuesday. If they're successful, the GOP won't be the party of limited government and free markets anymore. Unlike it was until now? Instead, it will be more like a party of a kind of statist white-identity politics, of the sort that is common across much of Europe. White folks can play the multiculturalism game, too. ...Whether Trump destroys or merely transforms the GOP, the net effect could be the same: Both parties could lose their reliable rationale for existence. That kind of creative destruction could leave a vacuum for one or more new parties to fill the void. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 I remember Morsi. A 'popular' vote pushed out because he wouldn't play nice. I'm beginning to smell a replay of the standard pattern but with the world at stake, not just our country. |
| Posted by: Phaitle Angeamble2719 2016-05-05 22:16 |
| #6 Tribalism has been rewarded in our politics for decades now under the rubric of "multiculturism" and " diversity" -- it's regrettable but hardly shocking that more and more whites have decided to get in on the action. This the world the lefties made; people are just trying survive in it. And before you can fight for lofty principles and sound policy, you have to make sure you're actually around for the fight. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-05-05 19:49 |
| #5 Both parties are effectively dead. The people are tired of their criminal behavior. The real question is if what's left of the republican party will go quietly in reform, or not... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2016-05-05 17:26 |
| #4 Makes some sense, because he is in deep with Democrats as it is. And now Trump has his Soros tentacle embedded. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-s-new-finance-guru-ex-clinton-donor-soros-n568766 |
| Posted by: Vernal Jolung8256 2016-05-05 15:19 |
| #3 At least with FDR people had jobs. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-05 14:35 |
| #2 A salient point: The Democratic Party thrived under FDR, but it shriveled under Obama... There are many reasons for this, but one is particularly relevant. Obama lost the traditional heart of the Democratic Party: the white working class. In fairness, the Democrats’ trouble with blue-collar whites pre-dates Obama, but Obama accelerated the process. In 2012, he lost this group by 26 points (62%-36%). Trump is winning with those votes. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-05-05 13:40 |
| #1 The death is not a sudden thing, it's been going on for some time. I stopped sending the state GOP and national GOP panhandlers money years ago. I support specific candidates, and they can lose that support with a single bad choice. Ask Pat Toomey. Signed up for Manchin's gun grab and I tagged Toomey's fundraising emails as junk and toss his snail mailings directly in the no-sort recycle bin before I even come in from getting the mail. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-05-05 12:34 |