August 25, 2023
It's Trump's party now
By Mark C. Ross
In case you haven’t noticed, the old Republican party is lying quietly in the boneyard of history. Gone are the Doles and McCains. The Romneys and Murkowskis will soon be joining them. The latest demonstration of this new reality happened when Chris Christie was loudly booed as he was first introduced at the recent Republican debate. BTW, it wasn’t the last time he'll be booed and, yeah, he’s on the express bus to the boneyard too.
Just to be clear, this is not particularly about ideology -- but about attitude. Trump’s strength doesn’t lie in his “charm” or whether he’s read Milton Friedman or von Mises. It’s about his combative nature. The problems we face are not about nuances of public policy. The butts that Trump puts into the seats at his public appearances already know that the problem is the expansion of authoritarian government. Period.
They don’t want to be told about “kinder and gentler” forms of conservatism. They do want to keep their God-given freedom… and are watching it being stolen from them every day. There is already a bill before the California legislature that would seriously impact the existence of grass lawns at commercial. They’ll come for your residential front and back yards next. A pragmatic solution for water shortages along the Pacific coast would be to construct a handful of new nuclear generating stations and use some of that electricity to power desalination plants. It’s nothing more than ideology that’s standing in the way of such common sense.
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