tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1353204149806497348..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: TRUMP'S FELLOW REPUBLICANS ONLY IMITATE HIM ONE WAYSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-79750619792875441812016-02-25T18:30:10.958-05:002016-02-25T18:30:10.958-05:00Has anyone mentioned to Trump or Cruz or any of th...Has anyone mentioned to Trump or Cruz or any of the other clowns who want to deport all of the illegal aliens in this country and close to half of them are white (or, at least, not Hispanic)? That deporting all illegals from this country means deporting white people as well as not so white people?JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02031805602014442712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-57372778804919998382016-02-23T20:28:00.331-05:002016-02-23T20:28:00.331-05:00"I disagree. I think Trump's rage and hat..."I disagree. I think Trump's rage and hatemongering are just so <i>satisfying</i> to GOP voters that they give him a pass on deviations from right-wing orthodoxy and attacks on sacred cows. Also, they may have mixed feelings about a few of issues (George W. Bush, the Iraq War), but they're not angry about the orthodox GOP positions on these issues."<br /><br />I think that it's possible that a lot of Trump's supporters aren't angry about his breaks from right-wing orthodoxy because to them the orthodoxy is just a shibboleth - they don't really care about low taxes on the rich in the abstract (and may, in the abstract, think that might be a bad idea), but they see it as a divider between us and them. Trump's immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric satisfies <i>their</i> use of right-wing orthodoxy - recognizing him as one of their own. The rest of it, they either don't care too much or actually agree with him. <br /><br />His opponents, with the exception of Carson, are all movement conservatives. Right-wing orthodoxy is their conceptual framework; they have climbed to where they are today on the bloodied backs of people who occasionally bucked the movement and can't imagine a situation where they could shove part of the movement aside and not be banished like they did their previous opponents.<br /><br />I think Trump's aftermath could rejigger the Republican Party if people notice that they agreed with a bunch of things that they've been told not to for a long time. I don't think it will send them into the arms of the Democrats, but it might finally trigger the internal chaos they so richly deserve.sdhayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02354409528975596405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-29802245715308542662016-02-23T15:07:33.151-05:002016-02-23T15:07:33.151-05:00Today I'm more convinced than ever, this time ...Today I'm more convinced than ever, this time the gloves are off: they're going to do what it takes to get Back To The Donald''s past-that-never-was Neverlandish Future. They're going full Last Stand for Full Frontal Apartheid.<br /><br />They're going to steal this thing, for their tribe, and they're not going to be in the least subtle about it. This brings to my mind how Rome went about destroying Carthage, in the bargain ending up destroying their own Republic and dooming themselves to 20 centuries of fascism, theocracy, oppression of the masses and vainglorious hoohaw.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-11719812758960071392016-02-23T14:57:50.842-05:002016-02-23T14:57:50.842-05:00"My guess is that the GOP will go back to the..."My guess is that the GOP will go back to the drawing board to rejigger the primary process once again"<br /><br />mlbx..., The way things have been going this 2016 Republican Brand Restoration Cycle, and in particular on this very Sumter of a Tuesday, it may not be sound to assume there'll even be a Republican party in the next presidential cycle sufficiently recognizable as such to poke into rejigging its primary process.<br /><br />Today in particular we're seeing with Kristolnacht clarity a yellish Rising Gorge effect, backlit by fauxtons unleashed by the Nino Effect coinciding with the Clown Cars' weekend broad brush tour thru South Cackalacky.<br /><br />This is really bad: they've tossed out all the pretenders at civility on filling the SCOTUS vacany, they're using Obama's plan to close Gitmo to play trashbasketall, sawing off national from security leaving both parts to bleed out beyond a gerrymandered wall of broken infrastructure rebuilding, shattered pieces of financial sector reform, the Voting Rights Act, the return of kitchen hack abortions, magical chicken economics, a fast food revival of the field crop model, what's looking more like a Cuban reverse invasion dedicated to some fond made-up remembrances of Back to Batista, carpet bombing the Middle East, no limits torture, full-on police state domestic security hell, premium-priced lead-and-mercury infused beverages, a Bible-based truthiness ritual bonfire of all sciences, race war, full loogy-launches at Obama in hopes of insta-rusting out his presidency, and so much more ... <br /><br />This is really, really bad.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-6329278235198711892016-02-23T12:06:36.031-05:002016-02-23T12:06:36.031-05:00Trump has yet to demonstrate, imo, that he doesn&#...Trump has yet to demonstrate, imo, that he doesn't have a pretty hard ceiling at around 30-35% of the vote. Consequently, I don't think you can say much about how or why the GOP electorate is accepting his heterodoxical "conservatism" since only a minority of the GOP has accepted him. If the non-Trump field collapsed to one candidate, I think Trump would be toast. <br /><br />The problem is how they reward delegates and that exaggerates Trump's strength. As I understand it, the GOP intentionally encouraged winner-take-all primaries in order to shorten the primary process and reach a consensus candidate sooner. Then along came Trump. Heh. My guess is that the GOP will go back to the drawing board to rejigger the primary process once again. The GOP seems so inept at the fundamental mechanics of electoral democracy, it should be a matter of shame for Democrats that they seem to forever have the upper hand. mlbxxxxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05931351723996391533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-60047222334977967152016-02-23T11:41:39.625-05:002016-02-23T11:41:39.625-05:00Stalin, at one point when the German's were ad...Stalin, at one point when the German's were advancing far into Russia, ordered his commanders, "Not one step back!"<br /><br />The GOP politicians follow the command of their rabid base, which has ordered, "Not one step to the left!"<br /><br />Trump can get away with his little more liberal nuggets, because those are sorrounded with mounds and mounds of delicious hate, fear, and bigotry.<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com