Opinion
Four More Years of What Exactly?
Don’t ask Trump. All he has to offer is a nonstop
parade of conspiracy, demagogy and grievance.
By Jamelle
Bouie
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/opinion/trump-convention-platform.html\
(…) “It’s easy, observing all of this, to say
that the Republican Party has fallen fully into a cult of personality around
Trump and his family, a shocking number of whom have featured speaking roles at
the convention. It’s also easy to say the party has no ideas or plans for the
future. But that would be a mistake. For the Republican Party, the situation
now isn’t too different from what it was in 2016. Trump lacked a serious agenda
then just as he lacks one now. Rather than bring a new program to bear on the party,
he has made the equivalent of a trade: total support for his personal and
political concerns in exchange for almost total pursuit of conservative
ideological interests.
The last three and a half years have only shown
the wisdom of this pact. Republican indifference to the president’s corruption,
criminality and prejudice — which freed him to profit from the office and turn
the bureaucracy into an instrument of his will — has been rewarded with
deregulation, cuts to the social safety net and the installation in the federal
judiciary of a large new cohort of reliably conservative judges.”
. Jennifer Rubin writes for the Washington Post on how
she did not get the ‘optimism’ that she had been promised.
‘In contrast to the upbeat videos and testimonies
of the Democratic nominee’s good character, Republicans have largely relied on
a parade of angry individuals standing on a podium. The setting had the feel of
a local tea party confab, with many people speaking VERY LOUDLY to people
already fully in their club.
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