For years we’ve been talking about the Conservative wing and Establishment wing of the Republican Party. I don’t want to minimize conservatism here, but conservatism is actually undergoing some redefinition right now, and that redefining has been caused by the impact…
Category: Republican Party Establishment
The Democrats’ Dire Situation Analysis 2017-2037
Donald Trump became president because large numbers of traditional Democrat voters unexpectedly came over to his side. Some of them voted for Mr Trump, while many others did not bother to vote for Hillary Clinton and stayed home. It really is no more…
The Peoples’ Commission to the Republicans
Subject: What to do about a Republican Party that is so stockholmed with fear, fractured by ambition, tone deaf to its own people, culturally monochrome, buried in petty policy differences and sharing a personal dislike for the commander-in-chief who actually empowered them…that it…
The Republican House’s Savo Island-“Five Sitting Ducks” Defeat
When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-imposed the analogies narrow The lessons most important from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic) are that…
I’m Not a Big Fan of Paul Manafort, but…
(There are lies, and damned lies….” -Mark Twain) I’m absolutely delirious in my dislike for the Associated Press. And it’s all about honesty and dishonesty. Now, personally I’ve never known Mr Manafort to lie, but I suppose he has uttered…