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Showing Original Post only (View all)" I'm a Republican. What on Earth Is Wrong With My Party?" [View all]
http://time.com/5102586/republicans-donald-trump/I'm a Republican. What on Earth Is Wrong With My Party?
By Elise Jordan 9:50 PM EST
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Elise Jordan is an NBC News/MSNBC political analyst. She has worked for the Department of State and the National Security Council.
I am a Republican in the era of Donald Trump, and I am emotionally depleted by the constant cruelty of the President of the United States.
Ive told myself repeatedly that I am done being shocked by a degenerate of such magnitude that I wouldnt want to invite him to a family gathering for fear of what he might say in front of my mother.
But just when you say you cant be surprised, Trump exceeds the generosity of your lowest expectations. My heart hurt when Trump went out of his way to attack Myeshia Johnson, the pregnant widow of a fallen soldier he sent to the battlefield. I recoiled in disgust when he slanderously (and laughably) insinuated that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was willing to prostitute herself to him for a political donation. When the President offered that among the white supremacists who killed a peaceful protester, there were some some very fine people, it felt like an alternate history, one where the Citizens Council ascended to power instead of ignominy. Then theres his support for Roy Moore, even after multiple women accused Moore of preying on them when they were teenagers and he was in his thirties.
I dont think the way I feel is what they mean by bleeding heart.
The GOPs journey from embracing compassionate conservatism to accepting Trumps unparalleled capacity for casual cruelty cannot be dismissed as craven politics; its a threat to our security when the President taunts a nuclear-armed rogue dictator on social media.
There was a time not so long ago when Republican presidents not to mention other Republican leaders cared about Americas standing in the world, as a matter of principle and peace. The previous Republican president George W. Bush made compassion a literal domestic policy priority by funding what he called armies of compassion through faith-based initiatives. This Republican president seems hell-bent on stripping any semblance of compassion from the national and global conversation.
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Compassionate conservatism is sorta like a hairy snake. A pale gorilla. An underwater bridge.
lindysalsagal
Jan 2018
#23
It was Obama who killed the GOP. A black man in the WH was just too much to take for them.
DetlefK
Jan 2018
#4
I am sick unto my eyeballs of all these Republican idiots who are Shocked! Just Shocked I tell you!
Squinch
Jan 2018
#6
He wasn't the "lesser of two evils". They perceived him as that. Big difference.
SharonAnn
Jan 2018
#64
ttraditional "Republican" is extinct, the corruption of republican values been happening for decades
beachbum bob
Jan 2018
#14
I hate to tell you this, but nothing, it has always been that way...well, maybe worst today
Perseus
Jan 2018
#30