Comrade Richard is absolutely right ----there is no place for the "Republican Renaissance" people in Trump's Republican Party ---
> > > The only sitting Republican I heard speak with consistency and principle > over the last 2 months is Mitt Romney. Romney is clearly trying to > position himself as the leader of some yet-to-be-born Republican > Renaissance Party that would supplant the Trumpists and isolate them in > some third party somewhere. My view is that Romney and Collins and > Murkowski and the other “moderate” Republicans have this equation 100% > backwards. Trump has disgraced himself with just about everybody in the > world -- except the Republican base. He still rules. In fact, his distance > from the White House might lead more to a robust mythology rather than a > fade out. Exiled or defeated leaders can wield enormous power from the > outside as they are not subject to the daily business of government that > belittle them. > It’s the “moderates” who have no future. No immediate future. Just exactly > who is their voting base? There isn’t one. These are the guys who are > going to wind up marginalized and it’s the Trumpists -- maybe without Trump > -- who are going to be running the Republican Party for the time being. > ME: The only hope these Republicans have is to be willing to play the role of SPOILER so that Republicans who are in the Trump orbit will consistently lose. My historical analogy (and it might be a stretch) is to the Whig Party in the 1840s --- The last Whig President elected was Zachary Taylor --- who when he died gave us the President most Americans like to treat as the butt of jokes, Millard Fillmore --- In that 1848 election, the precursor of the Republican Party, the Free Soil Party, ran a Presidential candidate (former President Van Buren) --- after that election, the Whigs began to fall apart and by 1856 had ceased to exist --- with the new Repubican Party emerging as party number two. The Whigs became hopeessly split over the slavery issue and I would argue that the formation of the Free Soil Party (even though it never had a chance) forced some Whigs to take stands against slavery expansion thereby splitting the party irrevocably ... The process by which the Whigs were destroyed took about 16 years --- from the election of Harrison (the first Whig President) in 1840 to the disappearance in1856. These days, time rushes by MUCH QUICKER -- who would have thought that the Republican Party could be so transformed in just 5 years --- YES, the "moderates" have no voting base --- but they probably could play that spoiler role, leading to the disintegration of the Trump party --- The alternative scenario would have the donor base sticking with the Trump Party -- That would indicate that some section of the ruling class had given up on the democratic forms that have served American capitalism very well over the decades --- I am not prepared to say that the ruling class sees such a crisis that they are prepared to abandon "democratic forms" ---- which leaves them with no mass base unless they totally embrace the Democrats --- which because of the "progressive wing" might be considered risky for them. CONCLUSION -- the donor base of the current Republican party will attempt to create this Republican Renaissance Party --- It will take time and money to find a voting base, that's for sure --- and of course it may not work --- If that's the case, then the Trumpist Republican party will remain the OPPOSITION party and not disintegrate! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5353): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5353 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79546883/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
