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Offline EasyAce

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The RNC Isn't a Convention, It's a Wake
« on: July 19, 2016, 08:01:54 pm »
By Nick Gillespie


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The Republican Party, conservatives, and certainly Donald Trump may not fully understand it yet, but
they are meeting in Cleveland not to chart the future of the GOP but to host its funeral.

The Republican Party and the larger conservative movement for which it has stood since the days of Barry
Goldwater and Ronald Reagan is dead but not yet buried. A party whose rhetoric (if never its actual policies)
is all about shrinking the size, scope, and spending of government cannot even pretend anymore to stand
for any of those things. As important, it hasn't been serious about governing for a very long time. Remember
 just how terrible and world-ending they said Obamacare was back in 2009 and 2010? They weren't wrong
and yet it took the Republicans, despite holding congressional power for most of the 21st century, until
June of this year to roll out an actual alternative that certainly wasn't worth the wait.

Before whatever Trumpian display of narcissism, delusion, and disdain for actual knowledge of policy and
process clicks into high gear in Cleveland over the next few days, it's worth taking stock of what the Republican
 Party has become. Trump is not the cause of its collapse but an effect of utter failure of Republicans to deliver
even partly on their promises over the past several decades . . .

More here: http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/18/the-rnc-isnt-a-convention-its-a-wake
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Re: The RNC Isn't a Convention, It's a Wake
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2016, 08:02:52 pm »
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Re: The RNC Isn't a Convention, It's a Wake
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2016, 09:58:17 pm »
Donald Trump is the Republican Party's Romulus Augustulus, even though for all intents and purposes he's been a lifelong Democrat.

Nick pretty much nails it.

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Re: The RNC Isn't a Convention, It's a Wake
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2016, 10:13:47 pm »
Quote from: Night Hides Not on July 19, 2016, 09:58:17 pm
Donald Trump is the Republican Party's Romulus Augustulus, even though for all intents and purposes he's been a lifelong Democrat.

Nick pretty much nails it.

Octavian Augustus is a great reference to describe what is taking place here.

We're formally going from a Republic to a full-on dictatorship established by oligarchs and powerful houses that were in control of the Senate that ceded to Julius Caesar's adopted son after a litany of subterfuge.
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Re: The RNC Isn't a Convention, It's a Wake
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2016, 10:20:21 pm »


Hilarious article and picture.
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Re: The RNC Isn't a Convention, It's a Wake
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2016, 10:43:05 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on July 19, 2016, 10:20:21 pm
Hilarious article and picture.

Picture had nothing to do with the article. Would you care to elaborate on what was so
hilarious about the article---which had absolutely nothing to do with the Libertarian
Party?

Because a lot of us don't think what's happened to the Republican Party this year is all
that funny. A lot of us have no taste for big government, and we don't have to be
libertarians lower- or upper-case L to have that lack of taste for it. And a lot of us don't
think what the Republican Party did to metastasise big government when in full power
in the 2000s was any more funny.

The article more or less summarises what this book elaborated:





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Re: The RNC Isn't a Convention, It's a Wake
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2016, 10:43:49 pm »
They are nailing the coffin shut now
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