So, I had a friend send me this article today:
For Democrats, leaving Donald Trump in office is not only good politics — it is the best chance for fundamental realignment of American politics in more than a generation.
At this point I really have to ask what is the motivation for writing or publishing an article with this sort of nonsense. The NYT regularly publishes articles that portray Democrats in a negative light, e.g. Hillary Clinton, I get that. The NYT regularly reacts to Republican portrayal of them being liberally biased by publishing Republican puff pieces. However, I have yet to see some this egregiously bad. To trot this nonsense out is clearly beyond the pale.
Mr. Trump has abandoned most of the core principles that have defined Republicans for the past century. Free trade abandoned for protectionism. Challenging our adversaries and promoting democracy replaced by coddling Russia and cozying up to dictators near and far. Fiscal conservatism replaced by reckless spending and exploding deficits.
Ok, lots of problems here. The base of the Republican party has favored protectionism for a long time, but the establishment (rich) wing has kept that in check only until recently. The second sentence only gets one point. “Coddling Russia” is new, but “cozying up to dicatators near and far” was the norm both before and after the administration you served under, sir. Fiscal conservatism discipline has never existed under the Republican party since Reagan.
What’s left of the party is a rigid adherence to tax cuts, a social agenda that repels most younger Americans and rampant xenophobia and race-based politics that regularly interfere with the basic functioning of the federal government.
This has always been there, and by adhering to this, they have been able to keep protectionism in check. Now the monster is loose, and the establishment is doing everything they can to fight them back.
President Trump should be impeached because he is unfit for the presidency. He represents a clear and present danger to our national security. We didn’t need Robert Mueller’s report for that. But if Newt Gingrich taught us anything, impeaching the president is likely to be bad politics.
Nothing will unite an increasingly fraying Republican Party more than trying to remove the president anywhere but at the ballot box. Democrats risk the kind of overreach that doomed the Republicans 20 years ago. And in any case Democrats are not likely to succeed in getting votes in the Senate to convict the president. And in politics, a loss is a loss — there are no moral victories.
This is why the establishment in the Democratic party is getting so much flak from the left. They continuously act in fear of what the Republicans might do. It is time to kick idiots like this to the curb and force the party to take the right action.
This article is a disgrace and should never have been published. Is it just to make money? Does this guy just want attention?
Yeah, sure, Trump might destroy the Republican party, if he doesn’t destroy us all first.
I wish I could have not wasted my time with this, but here ya go.