With all due Respect @christian You're barking up the wrong tree. From experience gathered through my time here I can vouch that @roamer_1 doesn't have a liberal bone in his body. His apparent only transgression here is that he doesn't like the GOP, which he spent years advancing their cause, and it's titular head~Tumpy. That bothers only them that strive for TBR to become another echo chamber on the net.
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Corbe, you are already familiar w/the subject, yet permit a reflection.
Those who endlessly prattle on about 'politics' confirm their obliviousness.
The GOP was a northern Merchant Class anti-slavery party; evolving,
post Civil War into the errand boys for the Industrial Class.
During their 75 year ascendancy, from Johnson to Hoover, they were the party of:
* strong centralized government, adamantly opposing States Rights,
* aggressive trade protectionism, promoting excises/tariffs and rejecting free trade,
* strong supporters of judicial activism who nominated and confirmed virtually the
entire Federal Judiciary during their political ascendancy.
The cliché' that the GOP was and remains a conservative party is eons beyond
embarrassing; as they never had anything to do w/conservative principle;
NOT FOR A DAY, as their executive, legislative and judicial history affirms.
Our only Principled Conservative Party was the Southern Agrarian Rural Democrats
of Founders Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and many others; unfortunately tarred
by slavery and destroyed by the Civil War.
