The biggest current problem for this next generation is the failure to get beyond Trump’s populist success in selling anger and grievance to excite online donations and right-wing talk shows.

GOP primary voters told a CBS poll last month that their top priority in a presidential candidate is someone to “challenge woke ideas,” among Democrats. An unnamed candidate who makes “liberals angry,” was not far behind with 57 percent support.

  • @TurboDieselEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    there to get things done

    But I really have to question what that even means anymore. The GOP doesn’t have a platform, other than “what Trump said” and hasn’t for some time. (I wish I were joking - the official party platform in I want to say 21? 22? was just “we support Trump.”) It seems like they’re only interested in winning some kind of bizarre christofascist purity contest. I haven’t seen a single piece of policy to come from Republicans that wasn’t aimed at harming some group or another. Sure - I guess if that’s your goal they’re “getting things done” but in reality they’re just the party of no.

    • @dhorkEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I wish I were joking - the official party platform in I want to say 21? 22? was just “we support Trump.”

      Sort of. The parties approve platforms every four years, in alignment with the Presidential campaign. But in 2020, they simply didn’t bother making a new one. They even voted on and approved a resolution saying they wouldn’t write a new platform.

    • @ThurkeauEnglish
      -1•1 year ago

      I’ve noticed pretty much the same thing. The GOP is looking more and more like the Democratic Party with each passing day, as if they weren’t essentially interchangeable as it is. It’s not out of the question that George Orwell’s 1984 isn’t too far off from what we actually do have.