The Republican Party cannot blame the media's positive reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris for the downturn in their fortunes, wrote National Review executive editor Mark Antonio Wright. Rather, their problem begins with the fact that they "picked a bad candidate" to lead the ticket.The Nationa...
    • nifty@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Platform wise some of them are republican as we know them now even if their circles are blue. I think Clinton and Carter are what we’d consider current democrats

      • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        Carter was pre-Reagan. This was before the neoliberals took over the Democratic Party.

        Clinton mostly accepted Republican framing of the economy, that taxes on the rich need to be low for… Reasons.

        The main argument of the neoliberals is that while conservatives are “right” about a bunch of their policies and shit, they’re just bad at running everything.

        Carter was before that shit. Back when we said that conservative policy was heartless and evil.

        Some in the Democratic Party are coming back to this simple idea.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Did they actually have a good one? Since 2015 or so they’ve just pivoted to pure crazies and people sticking their tongues up crazy’s arseholes.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    The GOP electoral coalition is the smaller, weaker coalition. It’s lost the popular vote seven out of nine times in my lifetime (I’m 36). It has lost the Electoral College three out of the last four cycles. Conservatives might not be very eager to hear this, but ‘We the People’ are mostly Democrats," Wright continued.

    So you’re saying, the republicans are a minority. So maybe they need some inclusion and equity so people can appreciate the diverse opinion they bring to the table. So basically, conservatives and republicans need DEI 🤔

    All that remains, he said, is for Republicans to “stop whining” and try to create a stronger coalition — which so far there is no indication they are trying to do.

    And how will they do that? Hint, joining with Nazis or white supremacists isn’t necessary. The commoners want more than bread and circuses, and blood or bloodlust is a poor substitute. Conservatism as a platform needs to become less disingenuous and hypocritical. The republicans are the party of the oligarchs, and by definition that will always fail a democracy.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    27 days ago

    "Trump’s weakness only remained hidden for much of this year because…

    Only for “much of this year”? Are you kidding me?

    His many, many flaws were/are invisible to his selectively blind cult members. Those people were, however, loud and obnoxious enough to force their opinion on the weak Republican Party, and the party was too ineffectual to come up with an alternative. Boo fucking hoo.