The Republicans have decided that they don't need a platform. What they will run on, Dana Milbank writes, was on full display last night -- fear:
The Republican National Convention on its opening day was as uplifting as the apocalypse, as positive as perdition.
The woke-topians,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) warned, “will disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home and invite MS-13 to live next door, and the police aren’t coming when you call.”
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News personality and current girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., informed the convention that Democrats “want to destroy this country and everything that we have fought for and hold dear. They want to steal your liberty, your freedom. They want to control what you see and think and believe so that they can control how you live. They want to enslave you to the weak, dependent, liberal victim ideology, to the point that you will not recognize this country or yourself.”
Midway through this rage-fest, the convention went to news footage of violence and destruction in the streets and bleeped-out obscenities — then cut to the wood-paneled interior of the mansion of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who were charged with firearms violations after they threatened racial-justice demonstrators with a pistol and military-style weapon.
The pair, personal injury lawyers both, spoke about the “out-of-control mob” and the “Marxist liberal activist” and “radicals” who menaced them by walking past their house — which “could just as easily happen to any of you who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country.”
“They’re not satisfied with spreading the chaos and violence into our communities. They want to abolish the suburbs altogether,” the McCloskeys declared. “Make no mistake, no matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical Democrats’ America.”
That's the message: Your family won't be safe if you elect the Democrats. Simple and utterly crass -- like the man who is currently president.
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I skim a right wing nut job site every day. Today there are stories about BLM, some with video. The headlines say BLM violence but in every case its white republicans shooting at marchers, threatening protesters and attacking BLMers.
The rwnjs are so hysterical they don't realize that they are proving BLM remains non violent in the face of intense provication.
Former Republican Rick Wilson says that there we'll be lots of "white-hot crazy" on display between now and the election, rumley. He's right.
Well, it might be simple and crass, but it might work.
The Republicans only need to swing a few percent of the voters in order for Trump to win. This kind of talk will sway some voters. I think Trump has a good chance of winning. Remember 2016..people wrote Trump off back then too.
Lest you think I'm a Trump supporters. I'm definitely not!
GDN
You don't have to be a Trump supporter to acknowledge that Trump's twisted message might work, Gordie.
Owen those that believe any of that nonsense are just as moronic as their current president. This gang of republican grifters is painful to watch. The toady behavior and distortions of Nikki Haley should be an embarrassment to her, but it isn't because she sees an opportunity for herself, not the public. RG
It really is painful to watch people sell their souls, RG.
.. says a lot about 'Politics' (purportedly an instrument of Governance - Public Service) when you see confusion, deceit, situational ethics, attack ads, insult, ignorance, racism, misogyny.. you name it - anything goes. When they combine into the electric current a political party and its candidates and membership run on.. its time for the citizenry to ride it out of town on a rail. Its useless as far as serving them.. That is where we are in North America. The Conservative Party of Canada wants to model itself on the GOP in the USA.. in other words mirror the parasitic virology & methodology of the Republicans. Jason Kenney et al in Alberta is a perfect case study of what I just wrote.. He's just better applying the lipstick camouflage than most.. but its still outrageous what he is doing with a manufactured majority government
The Harper Party chose the Republicans as their model, sal. Their faces change. But the party doesn't.
Fear is the gruel of every cult. It's cheap, it's abundant and it never fails to satisfy the need that burns within every follower.
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/25/21400476/republican-convention-night-one-donald-trump-rnc-facts-2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/24/what-watch-rnc/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/23/how-republican-party-became-death-cult/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/02/republican-joe-walsh-iowa-trump
Thanks for the links, Mound. Yes, it's a cult. The fact that there is no platform confirms that observation.
Two more, Owen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/opinion/trump-qanon-birchers.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/opinion/trump-qanon-convention.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
The reference to the John Birch Society is interesting, Mound. William F. Buckley worked hard to keep the Birchers out of the party. I imagine he is somewhere, writhing in pain.
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