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In reply to the discussion: " I'm a Republican. What on Earth Is Wrong With My Party?" [View all]alarimer
(16,245 posts)25. The Republican Party was a toxic shithole before Trump.
Trump is just the logical result of the desire to cut taxes to the bone and starve the government of anything other than military spending. You can trace a line from the southern strategy to Lee Atwater to Grover Norquist to the Tea Party. Trump is their useful idiot.
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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