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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 08:46 AM Apr 2017

The Republican Party is a giant with feet of clay.

They have the White House!
They have both chambers of Congress!
They have the Supreme Court!

And yet their party is rotting from within.




GWB? His failings explained away as him not being a "real" Conservative.

Trump? Actually is no Conservative.

Moderate Republicans? Driven out by the continuous quest for more purity.

Republicans only cling to power by gaming the system, by breaking the rules, by changing the rules.

Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million voters.

Trump won by making huge promises of a better life for white working-class voters. But now he's showing neither interest nor ability to fulfill those promises.

And...






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The Republican Party is a giant with feet of clay. (Original Post) DetlefK Apr 2017 OP
The GOP also won because of racism and sexism SHRED Apr 2017 #1
I doubt that. Those people would have voted for him anyways, Conservative or not. DetlefK Apr 2017 #2
So the chants of... SHRED Apr 2017 #4
The GOP would be nothing without racism and sexism. dalton99a Apr 2017 #3
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