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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump

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To: John Carragher who wrote (260345)1/30/2021 1:05:37 PM
From: Thomas M.12 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 458692
 
I don't criticize Trump much. I think he did about all he can do. But he was mistaken about the GOP. Trump thought they didn't know how to win. He didn't understand that the GOP doesn't want to win. They have been trying to permanently end themselves for a long time. That is indisputable based on the GOP trying to give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens.

I think the GOP came to this viewpoint when the left conquered the institutions in the 1960s. They decided to stop trying to win and just position themselves as a polite opposition party and make money from that position.

Nixon showed they could still win (biggest landslide in history). The GOP didn't care and they joined the Dems in driving him out. They tried to slip Bush into the White House in 1980, but Reagan got in the way. Reagan showed they could win (even bigger landslide), but they didn't care. They just bided their time and then installed the weak loser Bush to diffuse Reagan's patriotic excitement. Trump showed they could win, but again they didn't care. They undermined his agenda at every turn and stood down as Trump was cheated out of his second term.

Tom
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