Trump Thread

[Montmorency]

I disagree with that characterization. It is the full whole of the Republican Party we behold: they own Trumpism to the hilt. Why would the fascists split the party they have sown and reaped? This is exactly the logical progression of what Republicans have been doing for 50 years. They made their choices and, faced with their creation, crossed the Rubicon and departed the realm of legitimate politics.

I have to be aggressive here in refusing to countenance anyone apologizing for the Republican Party ever again. Don't indulge in the (understandable) face-saving exercise of pretending that Trumpism is the mark of an extremist fringe of the party rather than its essence, blood, and avatar. Trump is the perfect Republican.

Enjoy this article - Never Trumpers Will Want to Read This History Lesson - on the dissolution of the Whig party and the Democrats who acknowledged that their party was irredeemably degenerate before the Slavery question, swallowed their pride, and joined the Republican Party. Based on the representations you have offered in this forum, you should be prepared to transfer into the current Friedmanite* Democratic Party and pine for the day when progressives and socialists split off into their own party, leaving behind a proper center-right pro-business club.

*Per Larry Summers

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

IF John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the first half of the 20th century, then Milton Friedman was the most influential economist of the second half.

Not so long ago, we were all Keynesians. (“I am a Keynesian,” Richard Nixon famously said in 1971.) Equally, any honest Democrat will admit that we are now all Friedmanites.