G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the 'Current President'
Source: nytimes
After the Republican National Committee kept outdated language from four years ago, when Barack Obama was still president, the party’s platform includes more than three dozen unflattering references to those in power at the White House.
By Reid J. Epstein and Annie Karni
June 11, 2020 Updated 3:56 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — When Republicans read the platform their party is using for the 2020 campaign, they may be surprised to see that it is full of condemnations of the sitting president.
“The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk,” the platform reads. “Its gravest peril originates in the White House, the current occupant of which has launched a campaign, both at home and internationally, to subjugate it to agents of government.”
The warning about speech online is one of more than three dozen unflattering references to either the “current president,” “current chief executive,” “current administration,” people “currently in control” of policy, or the “current occupant” of the White House that appear in the Republican platform. Adopted at the party’s 2016 convention, it has been carried over through 2024 after the executive committee of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday chose not to adopt a new platform for 2020.
The platform censures the “current” president — who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama — and his administration for, among other things, imposing “a social and cultural revolution,” causing a “huge increase in the national debt” and damaging relationships with international partners..................
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/republican-platform.html
This is just plain weird!!
When @axios first reported on efforts to rewrite the party platform that involved Kushner, grass-roots activists were livid, and some of those discussed organizing an effort to resist.
Instead, they have the old platform verbatim.
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The Republican Party has found itself in an awkward bind because of President Trump’s decision to move the location of his convention speech.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times
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How about some proofreading, you stupid blockheads!
We really need Dr. Seuss words now. I mean, they really don't actually LISTEN to what's being said. He and his minions are so far removed from reality, the words simply don't exist.
I haven't watched a Republican convention since my husband passed. I'm definitely tuning in this one.
