Saving the Republican party!

[JackLuis]

History repeating itself? Free trade is once again tearing apart the Republican Party

While the Democrats are tussling about whether to be the party of the working man or the corporations. The Republicans are in a real fight to determine the 'way forward' for their party.

Free trade has become the Republican elephant in the room, thanks to Donald Trump.

The GOP front-runner has helped make trade one of the hot-button issues of the 2016 presidential race. And it’s tearing the Republican Party apart – just like it did in the wake of the U.S. Civil War.

Back then, a third-party run by free trade Republicans put the GOP on a protectionist course that lasted 100 years, as I’ve explored in a recent book on the topic. Could it happen again?
End of an era?

A Trump nomination heralds the end of decades of Republican support for free trade. Tapping into widely held GOP fears surrounding outsourcing and unfair trade practices, amid great controversy, Trump has called for punitive tariffs against three of America’s key trading partners: Mexico, China and Japan.

He has also made his condemnation of free trade agreements like NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership – a massive 12-country free trade agreement signed in early February but still awaiting ratification from every member state – the centerpiece of his campaign. As Trump recently put it: “free trade’s no good” for the United States.

Who will win? Who should win this fight?

 

[JawnKarTurr]

Love or hate Trump he's bringing things up that people don't want to talk about. We need more discussion and debate and more important change rather then another election where we decide between Coke or Pepsi.

 

[JackLuis]

Love or hate Trump he's bringing things up that people don't want to talk about. We need more discussion and debate and more important change rather then another election where we decide between Coke or Pepsi.

Agree with you, but do we how to save our Republican party and put it on a path to economic responsibility is the question?

 

[Hypoxia]

Agree with you, but do we how to save our Republican party and put it on a path to economic responsibility is the question?

For any DemoGOP configuration to show "economic responsibility" will require them to abandon their donor class. Right.

How to start? A new SCOTUS could rule that corporations are not persons and money is not speech. A new SCOTUS could rule that full implementation of one-person-one-vote requires national standards of redistricting to eliminate gerrymandering, and end to disenfranchisement, and impartial reviews of all vote counts. A new SCOTUS could... whatever. Yeah, right. Get those damn reindeer off my roof.

I am not optimistic.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

When Megyn Kelly went to see Trump yesterday I knew he won the election. Megyn was the tipping point. Trump has more fans than she has. And fans are the death of the current GOP regime. Hillary owns the same problem. No fans.

I expect both parties to expel their oligarchs and radicals and perverts. Fags will leave government service and teaching, and become florists, beauticians, and decorators once more.

 

[sr71plt]

Yay, having JBJ declare Trump the winner of the election is soooo comforting--because JBJ has never been right in an outcome prognostication yet.

 

[JackLuis]

Oy vey: John Kasich Jesus-splains to New York Jews how Passover is linked to Christ’s blood

Or, "Kasich screws the pooch." Not helping John!

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich this week suggested to a group of Jewish voters in New York that the blood of Jesus Christ was somehow linked to the Old Testament Passover story.

After touring a matzo bakery and a Jewish bookstore in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Kasich delivered a speech on the sidewalk about the importance of Passover, in which Israelites put lambs blood on their door posts as a signal that the Angel of Death should pass over their homes.

“It’s a wonderful, wonderful holiday for our friends in the Jewish community – the Passover,” Kasich opined, before referencing the blood of Christ.

“The great link between the blood that was put above the lamp posts,” he said, seemingly unaware that “lamp posts” were not in the Passover story. “The blood of the lamb, because Jesus Christ is known as the lamb of God. It’s his blood, we believe…”

Uriel Heilman of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency recommended on Thursday that Kasich abstain from giving Christian Bible lessons to Jewish voters.

“Talking about Christ’s blood during a visit to Borough Park? Oy vey,” Heilman wrote. “Please, somebody, prep this guy Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn want to hear about food stamps, affordable housing, Medicaid. Ix-nay on the esus-Jay.”

I don't think that last part was Yiddish.