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A long article but worth the read. In short, Jennifer Rubin, a long-time conservative Republican, has stated the GOP has become that which people said they were: a party of old white men. And that has become more so in the age of Donald Trump, when he is actively courting and stoking white resentment.
She points to the recent picture of the con artist surrounded by the GOP house leadership at a recent dinner. All gave the thumbs up, as if everything was great, but Rubin says otherwise.
The use of identity politics “is a dead end for the party. It’s a dead end because it’s immoral and anti-American to base an entire political movement on one racial group, and it’s a dead end because that’s not America and [what America] is becoming.”
Before Trump, she says, being a conservative meant embracing American exceptionalism, forceful moral leadership of the world, promotion of the free market and “fiscal conservatism, which now is a hoot,” she said. “Conservatism, as opposed to Republicanism—and I think that’s an important distinction—was really about a temperament as much as a substantive list of issues. There was a certain modesty in approaching government … a certain humility about governance and a reliance on the structures of the Constitution to keep central government from getting to be too powerful.”
In her break up letter to the GOP, she had this to say about the fall of the party:
Then our relationship got, well, difficult. In lieu of interesting discussions, there were arguments. Yelling. Accusations. Feelings of betrayal. Instead of fighting the Democrats, we spent precious time and energy fighting one another. No more “Firing Line,” not even “Crossfire.” It got worse: One book after another by know-nothing talk show hosts, the loudmouths in talk radio, the conspiratorialists in the blogs. Suddenly it became chic to be angry and ignorant, and awkward to step outside the conservative cul-de-sac. Folks who had been preaching the gospel of personal responsibility became professional victims. The MSM! The MSM! Enough with all the whining.
In closing, she says the GOP ignores the younger generation at its peril, citing the huge turnout of voters between the age of 23-29 who went with Doug Jones over the pedophile Roy Moore by 27 points.
As the party of Trump, Republicans may lose an entire generation, Rubin warns. And policy wins like the tax bill aren’t going to sway millennials’ opinions of the GOP.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/17/jennifer-rubin-conservative-never-trump-republican-218002
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/05/16/dear-gop-im-just-not-that-into-you/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c47802048665
She points to the recent picture of the con artist surrounded by the GOP house leadership at a recent dinner. All gave the thumbs up, as if everything was great, but Rubin says otherwise.
The use of identity politics “is a dead end for the party. It’s a dead end because it’s immoral and anti-American to base an entire political movement on one racial group, and it’s a dead end because that’s not America and [what America] is becoming.”
Before Trump, she says, being a conservative meant embracing American exceptionalism, forceful moral leadership of the world, promotion of the free market and “fiscal conservatism, which now is a hoot,” she said. “Conservatism, as opposed to Republicanism—and I think that’s an important distinction—was really about a temperament as much as a substantive list of issues. There was a certain modesty in approaching government … a certain humility about governance and a reliance on the structures of the Constitution to keep central government from getting to be too powerful.”
In her break up letter to the GOP, she had this to say about the fall of the party:
Then our relationship got, well, difficult. In lieu of interesting discussions, there were arguments. Yelling. Accusations. Feelings of betrayal. Instead of fighting the Democrats, we spent precious time and energy fighting one another. No more “Firing Line,” not even “Crossfire.” It got worse: One book after another by know-nothing talk show hosts, the loudmouths in talk radio, the conspiratorialists in the blogs. Suddenly it became chic to be angry and ignorant, and awkward to step outside the conservative cul-de-sac. Folks who had been preaching the gospel of personal responsibility became professional victims. The MSM! The MSM! Enough with all the whining.
In closing, she says the GOP ignores the younger generation at its peril, citing the huge turnout of voters between the age of 23-29 who went with Doug Jones over the pedophile Roy Moore by 27 points.
As the party of Trump, Republicans may lose an entire generation, Rubin warns. And policy wins like the tax bill aren’t going to sway millennials’ opinions of the GOP.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/17/jennifer-rubin-conservative-never-trump-republican-218002
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/05/16/dear-gop-im-just-not-that-into-you/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c47802048665
