Today’s Republican party has no foundational beliefs, no doctrine, no ideology other than mere re-election.
Back in 2010, the Senate’s Republican leader, Mitch McConnell said, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
Mitch McConnell said, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” Not the elimination of hunger or poverty, not the improvement of Americans’ health. Not education, jobs, or housing. No, his most important goal was to win the next election.
Just as Trump is a psychopath, the entire GOP seems to have become the Psychopath Party, immune to compassion or sense of duty. This is exactly what happens when a nation’s leadership, loses all sense of morality, and yields only to the naked lust for power.
The Republicans have advertised themselves as conservative. No one knows exactly what that means, but generally, it has to do with conserving traditional values: marriage and family, religion, law and order, honesty and truth, and reliability. That is the conservative ideology. But, it is not currently the Republican ideology.
This Republican loss of ideology didn’t happen overnight, however. It began with Lyndon Johnson, or rather with a white racial revolt against Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society.”
Until the 1960s, the southern states had traditionally voted against the Republican’s self-proclaimed “Party of Lincoln” since the Confederate States’ lost the Civil War.
But by appealing to the anti-integration, states’ rights, and law-and-order sentiments of many Southerners, Richard Nixon was able to sway enough bigots to the Republican ticket to win election...
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