tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1777108186635868932..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Hollow Men of the G.O.P.Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60261031966226339682017-01-01T11:26:56.669-08:002017-01-01T11:26:56.669-08:00The average person doesn't get into ideology o...The average person doesn't get into ideology or political philosophy. They see what's going on around them and what is happening to them and their families. Granted, some who you run into will use some of the buzz words of the rhetoric associated with the ideas, but they are not by any means ongoing students of them, but regardless of their distance from them they cannot be classified as simple reactionaries, either. To do so is the same caricaturization that our adversaries engage in. For the most part they went along with the GOP program after Reagan because they were told that what would ensue would be a continuation of his policies. They patiently went along until it became so blatantly obvious that they were being lied to that they began sitting on their hands until the tea party came along. Then the GOP establishment stabbed them in the back again. Meanwhile they continued to work behind the scenes to transform the party at its base while the establishment still controlled the commanding heights, and put up McClame and Wrongnee only to see them flame out, when the exact same electoral wins were available to the party that Trump gained. He recognized the dynamic in play and simply took advantage of it. Not to say that anyone could have done so. It took his special talents. <br />People like Douthat need to recognize that the paradigm is shifting, and that the shift is not yet complete. Until they learn to alter their thinking they will remain in a state of clueless reaction that they stupidly think the man on the street is in.Teapartydocnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48082118082454790722017-01-01T07:21:00.482-08:002017-01-01T07:21:00.482-08:00The GOP was run by people who ignored the Tea Part...The GOP was run by people who ignored the Tea Party and were "fat, dumb, and happy" not caring about their base, and what the base's concerns were. Sooooo, Trump trumped the other candidates, and Hillary, too. Oh, the great wailing of terrible wails and gnashing of terrible teeth! And the base was quietly happy.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34783740537340882662017-01-01T06:39:25.605-08:002017-01-01T06:39:25.605-08:00Only a "conservative" at NYT could descr...Only a "conservative" at NYT could describe Hillary merely as <i>"a flawed candidate."</i><br /><br />Blame, blame, blame everyone for failing to stop Trump...<br />...while *never* considering the possibility(read: REALITY)<br />that Americans heard and supported the message/s of Trump's campaign.<br /><br />That's what hanging out with professional victims too long will do to you, it seems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com