Yaron Brook On The Seinfeld Party: 'We're About Nothing'

"Republicans' Principles have Been Hijacked By Leftists" 

Source:Yaron Brook talking about the Trump Party of nothing.

From Yaron Brook

As Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson argued when he argued that Donald Trump is a Socialist: 

"We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don’t have to pay it. They don’t have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries. … What I’m doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries—some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else...

From The New Democrat

And as Kire Schneider wrote about this last week: 

"Look, if this offends any American leftists, especially closeted Socialists... cut back on your daily capitalist coffee take by 50%. You'll relax a lot more and not be so politically oversensitive. If you want to call Trumpenomics fascist, fine. But Communists are fascists as well. 

But what Kevin Williamson is doing here and what I'm arguing as well, is this is how President Trump governs when it comes to economics: "Do things my way, or I'll bring the heavy force of the national big government, down on your ass. And I won't release my giant grip (remember, Donald Trump brags about how big his hands are) until you run your business or organization exactly the way I want you to... 

From The New Democrat

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".

So back in the 1990s, when I was in my late teens and early 20s... I was a huge Seinfeld show fan. I mean I would catch the new episode every week and watch as many reruns as I could. I don't think the show and those characters have aged very well, but I was into that show 25-30 years ago. And the reason why I call the modern "Republican Party" the "Seinfeld Party", is because they're both about 1 thing: they're about nothing. 

If you look at the main characters of the Seinfeld show: 

Jerry Seinfeld 

George Costanza

Elaine Bennis

Cosmo Kramer,

they're all very narcissistic characters, who struggle to care about anyone else. "Struggle:" might be the wrong word... they don't care about anyone else other than themselves. And whole premise of the show is, nothing, really. There's no core to it that brings 1 entire episode together. There maybe 2-3, perhaps even 4 storylines all in the same episode. And there's nothing to being 1 episode all together. Does this sound familiar? 

What does the modern "Republican Party" actually believe in? Some might say Donald Trump. Sure, the hardcore, far-right base for Donald Trump, sees him as Jesus Christ's father. The irony being there that they don't actually understand either Christ or Trump. They're nothing but tools at the hardware store who are there to keep Donald Trump in power and keep his lights on at Mara-E-Lago. They're just his personal piggybank right now thinking that he will always have their back, even after he's broken his. 

But for the career Republicans, backing Donald Trump is nothing more than keeping their own jobs and careers going in the Republican Party. Whatever he says, it's the God's honest truth and must be 100% correct, whatever it is. Which is why "Republican Party" is now the Seinfeld Party: the party about nothing. 

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