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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Trump is killing the Republican Party
By Joe Scarborough July 16 at 6:02 PM
I did not leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left its
senses. The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting
bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an
amalgam of talk-radio resentments. President Trump’s Republicans have
devolved into a party without a cause, dominated by a leader hopelessly
ill-informed about the basics of conservatism, U.S. history and the
Constitution.
When I left Congress in 2001, I praised my party’s successful efforts to balance the budget for the first time in a generation and keep many of the promises that led to our takeover in 1994. I concluded my last speech on the House floor by foolishly predicting that Republicans would balance budgets and champion a restrained foreign policy for as long as they held power.
I would be proved wrong immediately.
As the new century began, Republicans gained control of the federal
government. George W. Bush and the GOP Congress responded by turning a
$155 billion surplus into a $1 trillion deficit and doubling the
national debt, passing a $7 trillion unfunded entitlement program
and promoting a foreign policy so utopian it would have made Woodrow
Wilson blush. Voters made Nancy Pelosi speaker of the House in 2006 and
Barack Obama president in 2008.
The GOP president questioned America’s constitutional system of checks and balances. Republican leaders said nothing. He echoed Stalin and Mao by calling the free press “the enemy of the people.” Republican leaders were silent. And as the commander in chief insulted allies while embracing autocratic thugs, Republicans who spent a decade supporting wars of choice remained quiet. Meanwhile, their budget-busting proposals demonstrate a fiscal recklessness very much in line with the Bush years.
Last week’s Russia revelations show just how shamelessly Republican lawmakers will stand by a longtime Democrat who switched parties after the promotion of a racist theory about Barack Obama gave him standing in Lincoln’s once-proud party. Neither Lincoln, William Buckley nor Ronald Reagan would recognize this movement.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham has long predicted that the
Republican and Democrats’ 150-year duopoly will end. The signs seem
obvious enough. When my Republican Party took control of Congress in
1994, it was the first time the GOP had won the House in a generation.
The two parties have been in a state of turmoil ever since.
In 2004, Republican strategist Karl Rove anticipated a majority that
would last a generation; two years later, Pelosi became the most liberal
House speaker in history. Obama was swept into power by a supposedly
unassailable Democratic coalition. In 2010, the tea party tide rolled
in. Obama’s reelection returned the momentum to the Democrats, but
Republicans won a historic state-level landslide in 2014. Then last fall, Trump demolished both the Republican and Democratic establishments.
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