As my colleague Ederik Schneider said yesterday on The New Democrat about the modern "Republican Party":
"So as Yaron Brook said so himself: "The Republican Party is about nothing. There's no core there, there no principles there... That's a paraphrase, but pretty close.
If you want me to give the most justifiable defense for why I call the modern "Republican Party" the party of nothing, I'll give it to you anyway:
"We're all about Donald Trump now, because it's the only way we can stay in power, at all. We abandon Trump, we lose our political careers and the Democratic Left would take over and do even more damage to America".
I think that would be the most justifiable defense for why old school Republicans, people who pre-Donald Trump, we're real-life Conservative Republicans, could give for why they back Donald Trump... if not 100% of the time, certainly in the high 90s... they don't want to lose their jobs and careers and be forced to work for a living outside of the "Republican Party".
And perhaps they're thinking: "We just weather the storm here with Trump... he'll be gone, eventually and we can just come back in and start sounding and acting like Republicans again".
From The New Democrat
I just have a few reactions here.
Not to Laura Ingraham's credit, but just to show that there's some consistency with her career as a right-wing-populist-propagandist... back in the 1990s, when right-wing-populist radio took off in America, as a response to Bill Clinton becoming President and his Baby Boomers took over the country, that's where Laura Ingraham got her start as a right-wing-populist commentator. I guess after she was a lawyer for a brief period of time. And in her late 20s and 30s, she goes into right-wing-populist radio. So she has a fairly consistent record here, similar with Ann Coulter.
But for those mainstream Republicans, those people who used to be about traditional values, moral values, character, defending the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, limited government, fiscal responsibility, federalism, and our individual rights... to paraphrase Ederik Schneider: those folks are now just characters on a Seinfeld episode. I mean they're about nothing, other than themselves and keeping their careers in the Republican Party going.
So when Donald Trump does something stupid, corrupt, looks like he's having health issues beyond just being Donald John Trump everyday, instead of the Fox News Channel covering those things, they just try to come up with another story like:
"Remember when Joe Biden did or said this...
Or sone media personality they don't like gives a speech about free speech and democracy being in danger in America, freakin Dana Perino (who used to be a real Republican) comes on the air and essentially calls Wake Forest graduates party animals, who just want to get through the ceremony, so they can hit the nearest bar in Winston Salem.
As Warren G. Bennis once said: Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
That's where Fox News is right now. Everything for them is about getting the latest buck. The only people they pay attention too, are the people who are too dumb and lazy to figure out for themselves what the hell is actually going on in the world. That's the Fox News audience and that's Donald Trump's audience and party, and political reality TV show right now.
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