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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:59 PM Aug 2017

How Trump Kills the Republican Party


August 29, 2017 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

David Brooks: “Conservative universalists are coming to realize their party has become a vehicle for white identity and racial conflict. This faction is prior to and deeper than Trump.”

“When you have an intraparty fight about foreign or domestic issues, you think your rivals are wrong. When you have an intraparty fight on race, you think your rivals are disgusting. That’s what’s happening. Friendships are now ending across the right. People who supported Trump for partisan reasons now feel locked in to support him on race, and they are making themselves repellent.”

“It may someday be possible to reduce the influence of white identity politics, but probably not while Trump is in office. As long as he is in power the G.O.P. is a house viciously divided against itself, and cannot stand.”

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How Trump Kills the Republican Party (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
Enlighten me, BowlLikeAChicken Aug 2017 #1

BowlLikeAChicken

(69 posts)
1. Enlighten me,
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 01:14 PM
Aug 2017

but in my 60+ years conservatives whether 'democrats' or 'republicans' have always been about racial identity among other things but always painting a target on me and mine, am I missing something ?

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