We really need to stop blaming the path we’re going down on Donald Trump. Look at his staff and cabinet picks and you can see he really intends to implement the policy that A fascist GOP has wanted since Reagan, and that can be seen at the state level in a number of Republican controlled states.
It wasn’t bad enough that big brother George opened the gates of hell in the Mideast, now Jeb! wants to open the gates of hell here in the good ole US of A. What could possibly go wrong with a group of heartless Oligarchs getting together and making sure they control the USA and the peons who live there, until the Sun expands and engulfs the earth.
So let’s focus on what Republican leaders can do to build on this electoral success, whether in the White House, Congress or the states.
Americans, by wide majorities, agree that Washington is broken, so let’s send power back to the people and back to the states. Republicans should support convening a constitutional convention to pass term limits, a balanced-budget amendment and restraints on the Commerce Clause, which has given the federal government far more regulatory power than the Founders intended.
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This is our chance to contrast our approach, which trusts people to make good choices, with the failed Democratic and progressive top-down approach, which prefers government to decide almost everything.
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I remain hopeful that as he assumes the role of commander in chief, Mr. Trump will come to understand and appreciate how important it is that the U.S. return to a foreign policy of peace through strength.
Yes! Let’s return to his brother’s (GOP) foreign policy that resulted in the deaths of 100’s of thousands of people and destabilized the most dangerous region of the world.
While they’re at it, I can see a whole series of amendments to their new constitution.
1) How about a minimum wealth level in order to vote?
2) ban all abortions and birth control.
3) Redefine marriage for only a man and a women.
4) 90% congressional vote for any new regulations.
5) 90% congressional vote for any new publicly funded social programs.
6) No income tax, only a national sales tax.
7) Amending the constitution requires a majority vote of the top 1% of wealth owners in the U.S.
I could go on and I’m sure you can come up some good ones of your own.
The authoritarian path we are on would have been almost the same, without the heated rhetoric, if Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz, or even Kasich had been elected. Many people are saying, the GOP is no longer the GOP of Reagan, it’s now the GOP of Trump. In the real universe, the GOP hasn’t been the GOP of Reagan since Reagan. The GOP of Trump is the same as the GOP of Bush, Cruz, or any of the other authoritarians that ran in the GOP primaries.