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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 08:58 AM Jul 2016

New Republic: Republicans Have Made a World-Historical Mistake



https://newrepublic.com/article/135413/republicans-made-world-historical-mistake

Republicans Have Made a World-Historical Mistake
We’re about to learn just how dangerous Donald Trump is.
By Brian Beutler
July 22, 2016

When Donald Trump took the stage in Cleveland on Thursday night and said the words that sealed the deal—“I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States”—I like to imagine Republicans in the room who endorsed him out of expedience experienced a familiar sense of dread. It’s the sense of dread Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, must have felt when he realized Melania Trump’s keynote address was plagiarized. Or, on a more appropriate scale, the dread must have overcome pro-war Democrats last decade, when they realized that they’d tainted themselves forever with the greatest foreign policy blunder in American history.

This particular kind of dread is familiar to every elementary school child. It’s defined by the realization not just that you’ve made a huge mistake, but that you knew you were making a mistake all along, and suppressed your courage or your conscience.

Whether that dread crept up on Republicans at that moment, or at any point during Trump’s meandering, grisly, hour-long acceptance speech, it will catch up with them eventually. Whether they know it or not, this is what has happened to them.


When Trump loses the election badly, after normalizing white ethnonationalism, leaving a destroyed Republican Party in his wake; or when he wins, and proceeds to damage the country in one of the many ways he’s intimated (by abandoning allies, or defaulting on the debt, or expelling a significant percentage of the workforce), not only will repairing the damage be a long and painful process, but for his enablers there will be political hell to pay.
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New Republic: Republicans Have Made a World-Historical Mistake (Original Post) Miles Archer Jul 2016 OP
"for his enablers there will be political hell to pay" trotsky Jul 2016 #1
Unfortunately, all the people who voted in the primaries were the enablers. Too late it seems jmg257 Jul 2016 #2

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
1. "for his enablers there will be political hell to pay"
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 09:38 AM
Jul 2016

I honestly don't know if that would be the case.

Even Republicans admit now that the Iraq war was a mistake. FFS, one of Drumpf's common attacks on Hillary is her vote for it. THEIRS is the fucking party that banged the drums for that war. Where are the consequences??

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
2. Unfortunately, all the people who voted in the primaries were the enablers. Too late it seems
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 09:58 AM
Jul 2016

once his ball started rolling.

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