Republicans deeply anxious that Trump is ruining GOP brand

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Republicans deeply anxious that Trump is ruining GOP brand

By Katie Glueck

August 16, 2017 6:21 PM
WASHINGTON


If Donald Trump’s campaign stomped all over the Republican Party’s 2012 plans to build a more diverse movement, his refusal now to squarely blame white supremacists and neo-Nazis for Charlottesville violence has destroyed those efforts entirely.

Following defeat in the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee released an “autopsy report” offering recommendations for growing the party and improving its dismal standing with minorities and young people. Trump ignored much of that guidance and won anyway. But after the president this week insisted that there were “very fine people” among those who violently marched at a white supremacist rally, many Republicans fear that Trump is reinforcing the same negative perceptions about the party that they have spent years working to combat.

“Our plan is to reach out and talk to people who haven’t always agreed with us,” said Emmanuel Wilder, a North Carolina-based activist with the Young Republican National Federation. Trump’s comments, he said, make it that much harder. “It’s a major step back. The fact that the head of the party cannot call a spade a spade, it hurts…it’s near impossible for us to try to explain. It’s not really explainable.”

Added a dejected Republican state party chairman, “If he intended that — that’s almost so crazy that it’s sad. And of course, it’s counter to what the Republican Party has been trying to do, and sincerely so by most of us, for years: to let people of all races and backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances know they have a home in the Republican Party.”

Interviews with a dozen Republican operatives and activists around the country revealed genuine frustration—and for some, disgust—over Trump’s repeated suggestions that there is an equivalence between the neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and white supremacists who marched in Virginia this weekend, and those who turned out to protest them, even as a woman died after a white supremacist rammed a car into a group of the counter-protesters.

“He is destroying the GOP one day at a time, one reckless statement and action at a time,” said Sally Bradshaw, a longtime adviser to Jeb Bush who co-authored the “autopsy” report and went on to leave the party over Trump. “Why would anyone consider supporting a political party when the leader of the party is anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, and anti-black? He makes me sick.”

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[TEB]

1. Fantastic the pottery barn rule the GOP repugs

You break it you bought it

[C_U_L8R]

2. Trump is bringing the GOP into focus

Exposing the greed and racism that's always been there,
but hidden beneath coded language and innuendo.
Trump is a real Republican in every regard -
nasty, duplicitous and not very smart.
Enjoy the view in the mirror.

[onetexan]

3. they put him into office & their spineless leadership

enables him. Theyre now just waking up to the abominations this hideous ignorant man has caused & is wprried theyre ruining their brand? Bastard has been doing that since the day they allowed him to run as a GOP candidate.

[DetlefK]

4. You mean the autopsy-report that went to the drawer unread?

The autopsy-report was an analysis that relied on facts.
Republicans don't do "facts".
"Facts" are for eggheads, politically correct cosmopolitans and professors.
To quote a generic rural Republican: "That's your book-learning speaking."

The Republican Party already agreed on what their supposed problem is: messaging.
Conservatism is perfect.
And if only people would understand conservatism, they would like it.
The problem is not WHAT they are trying to sell, it's HOW they are trying to sell. Shaddup. End of story.

[Vinca]

5. If Orange Hitler is around in 2020 and runs again, the Republicans will run someone

sane to oppose him. Either 2 Republicans running or a Republican and an Independent. If Democrats can't win in 2020, we might as well pack it in.

[Happyhippychick]

6. I completely disagree. The spineless scum that won't stand up to him are "ruining" the GOP

and putting the country in grave danger.

They are worse than he is. He's a deranged lunatic in a government with checks and balances, they refuse to impose those checks and balances.

[brush]

7. You nailed it exactly.

[yardwork]

16. Very good point.

[SharonClark]

19. So agree.

[uponit7771]

41. +1

[obamanut2012]

8. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[JHan]

23. Lol

[tavernier]

27. That was my response as well.

At least something good might come out of this tragedy.

[obamanut2012]

44. yup

[struggle4progress]

35. +

[tanyev]

9. You made that bed, Republicans.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. . . .so it's not our problem if Trump is shitting on it.

[oswaldactedalone]

10. They should permanently and forever more

be known as the Republi-klan Party and Democrats should begin branding them with that today.

[spanone]

11. is that possible?

[oswaldactedalone]

20. I heard a Democratic Pollster

on All In last night use that term and I liked it. Can't recall his name, kind of an odd name, but he was very enthusiastic in his denunciation of Republi-klans. My point is the right wing has branded us as liberal snowflakes, commie sympathizers, socialists and all that, and we should turn the tables on them.

We don't have 1500 media outlets to do it but each person can start it with posts here, Facebook, or anywhere else we can get that out.

[spanone]

21. 👍🏼

[Chipper Chat]

29. Fernando armand

Spelling is probably wrong

[ATL Ebony]

43. Of course it is.

They have coined the term "alt-left" and used it often enough the it's close to sticking as a known faction of the Democratic Party. It's up to us to say "no", you don't get to define us.

Say anything long and loud enough and people will latch on to it as fact -- unless there's a hard enough push against the loud rhetoric.

[Squinch]

13. So their response is to be silent when Trump(R) spouts Nazi nonsense. They are dumber than a mud

fence.

[yardwork]

14. They voted for him. They own him.

[dembotoz]

15. Or this country is more bigoted than we thought and he will soar

[MoonRiver]

17. Ya think?

[reflection]

18. Hey Republicans!

You built that!

[lindysalsagal]

22. Breaking: Water is wet. Gorillas are hairy. Thankyou, Captain Obvious.

[Orrex]

24. They could unambiguously distance themselves from him with one simple impeachment

They have done the math, and they have determined that they stand to gain more by sucking up to Nazis than by reaching out to a more diverse electorate.

[GoCubsGo]

25. More like, "Frankenstein is worried that he can't control his monster."

That quote from Sally Bradshaw has me ROFLMAO. I guess she was unaware that her boss' grandfather was doing business with Hitler while his own country was at war with him.

Hey Sally, it's not just your party leader that is anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, and anti-black. Open your eyes, you twit. That describes your whole ratfuck party from top to bottom. How the hell do you think there were enough people to nominate this asshole in the first place, let alone elect him as President? You are all just like him. Your party has controlled both houses of Congress and two-thirds of the state legislatures for several years. Do you really believe people haven't noticed the sorts of legislation they have been introducing--and passing? All of it is anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, and anti-black, anti-environment, anti-consumer... Your party has been attracting misogynists, racists and nazis for decades. All Trump did was embolden these cockroaches to come out from the woodwork.

[Paladin]

26. They're not anxious enough to do much about it.

Until they are, fuck 'em.

[Iliyah]

28. The slow destruction is coming from within the GOPs

Any time a party have to result in rigging, cheating, stealing elections, that shit bounds to surface. Suppression of voter rights tends to surface. Treating fellow Americans like crap bounds to surface, in other words "eff you" GOPs.

[HughBeaumont]

30. Let's not forget very anti-worker.

Last I checked, the GOP still have policies in place to make American workers poorer and they sell this shit plan by appealing to their lottery hopes. They use words like "incentive", "opportunity" and "potentially" instead of having any plan in place to give wages a boost and to make education less expensive and easier to attain.

With their brand of Capitalism not being designed to have a long-term future and no intention of helping anyone but board members, it's kind of a wonder why the American people still fall for Republicans. Or not.

[shanny]

31. Sad!

[yellowcanine]

32. "He makes me sick. - Sally Bradshaw.

Yeah well, Sally, get in line to puke into the toilet. Where were you when Trumpy was spewing birtherism all over the airwaves?

[Coventina]

33. Well, I think they can stop worrying.

It's done.

[yellowcanine]

34. Too late. The time to stop Trump was in 2012, when he was spewing birtherism all over the airwaves.

If you had shut down the bigotry then, Trump never would have gotten a foothold.

[L. Coyote]

36. That ship sailed over the horizon a while ago.

[HAB911]

37. Christmas in August

[geek tragedy]

38. GOP primary voters didn't pick his name out of a hat nt

[dalton99a]

42. Bingo.

[Wounded Bear]

39. The GOP "Brand" is just like Trump's "Brand"...

cheap shit, plated over with a thin veneer of gold.

[dalton99a]

40. The GOP has always been a den of racism and treason.

[Solly Mack]

45. But ask these same republicans what they think of Jeff Sessions.

Loud racism v. well polished dog whistles is really what they are upset about.

[Gothmog]

46. The GOP deserves to have its brand destroyed