Wealthy business leaders are turning on US President Donald Trump over his plan to impose a colossal set of tariffs on America’s trading partners, as losses mount on stock markets around the world.
Yeah, because of course they are. I mean, it’s not like they could have POSSIBLY known how bad the shitgibbon would shit the bed, right? RIGHT?!
Maybe the next Republican will be more sensible.
Using sensible and Republican in the same sentence is an oxymoron.
And maybe the next republican will have fairy wings and a magic wand. It’s just as likely as your suggestion.
Being more competent than Trump is hardly remarkable.
I believe you are being unfair to republicans. I understand the desire to caricature the other side, but this is unbecoming of Boddhisatva.
Nonsense. There were perhaps two republicans in Congress that stood up to Trump. They were both primaried. The age where a reasonable conservative can succeed in the Republican party is over.
Why would they not support him? A sizeable portion of their base love the guy. He has a lot of power.
And why would the situation not change if a more sensible person assumed leadership of the party? Things can change rather quickly, and if his term goes badly I doubt the conservative establishment will appreciate another idiot nominee with a god complex.
The democrats nominated a barely functioning senile man that can’t string a sentence together for president twice. That does not mean that every single nominee that comes after is going to have dementia, does it?
The conservative establishment has lost control of the party. A sensible person cannot assume leadership of the party because that sizeable portion of the base you mentioned. They do not want reasonable things and they are profoundly vitriolic when they’re demands are not met. There simply aren’t enough reasonable conservative voters left to take back control of the GOP. If the leadership tried to force the issue, all those Trump voters will probably follow MTG or Donald Trump Jr to the libertarian party. That will leave the GOP without enough votes to beat the Democrats no matter who they put up. The only way the GOP can continue as a viable party is to stay extremist and keep feeding the monster they created.
Maybe you are right, but I would not underestimate how quickly things can change. The did change quickly with Trump, did they not?
I realized around 2012 to 2014 that republican voters were not being led astray by extremist politicians. The politicians were more reasonable than the average voter. The party leadership like John Boehner were holding the base in check.
That is less true now. John McCain has passed away. Mitt Romney is in the wilderness. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Now we are in the find out phase for the average voter.
I would say people with principled political views are in the minority, whether they are on the left or on the right. Most people just parrot what everyone else and the politicians say. People don’t like to think about these matters too deeply and vague emotions can be used(by politicians) in many ways.
In any case, which extreme positions are you referring to specifically? Or rather, which positions are extreme and integral to their programme?
I hope and pray to a god I don’t believe in that you are correct.
Maye the next Republican will be a competent Fascist and we won’t get another do-over.
Would you rather not have a competent government? You are dramatising a bit I believe.
I’ll take a clown fascist over a competent fascist any day.
Yeah, nah, fuck right off with that bullshit. Fascism bad. End of line.
I assumed you meant the competent republican will be so successful, the party will win the next election and the dems will not be able to compete. So you would rather they fail and let you win.
But now I realise that you actually implied they will rig the elections, which makes me think you are dramatising even more, since I doubt that will happen.
Yeah, fuck off with your ‘it can’t happen here’ bullshit.