The Republican Party is dead: GOP strategist stunned by reception to Trump's 'unhinged' CPAC speech

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Raw Story

TOM BOGGIONI
02 MAR 2019 AT 14:18 ET

Appearing on MSNBC with host Alex Witt, GOP strategist Rick Tyler was visibly upset at what he heard from Donald Trump during his speech at CPAC, and even more so by the enthusiastic reception the president was receiving.

“It’s interesting about CPAC,” Tyler began. “It used to be the confab of conservatives who would get together once a year but it’s not CPAC anymore — it hasn’t been since 2016. It’s now Trump-pac and should be TPAC.”

“The people there talk about being pro-tariffs, anti-justice, anti-law enforcement, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, pro-Russia, pro-autocrat,” he continued. “It’s unrecognizable what Donald Trump has done to the party and what he’s done to the conservative movement — it’s a shame.”

. . .

“Rest in peace,” he lamented. “No, it’s over. The problem is that the Republican Party has no grounding governing philosophy anymore because they’ve signed on to all these things as I just mentioned that were antithetical to the conservative movement.”

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[Progressive Jones]

1. Traditional Conservatives have been pushed aside in the GOP.

Radical right-wing bottom feeders have taken over. The kind of people who make for shitty neighbors.
Scowling racists. Politically illiterate religionists. Fascist loving weaklings. Very low quality Americans, to say the least.

[mahina]

2. It's hard to hold an organization together already.

When their organizing principles are racial prejudice, hate and greed, I don’t know what happens next but I don’t think we are the weak ones here.

[MBS]

10. good demographic summary, unfortunately.

A concentration of the darkest forces in our country – ones that we must defeat.

[pangaia]

32. In other words.. true NAZIS !

[vlyons]

3. Trump didn't transform the GOP

He didn't do it to them. They did it to themselves. Trump is merely the leader of degenerate people, who were already degenerate. If the traditional establishment GOP had not been such a bunch of greedy assholes, who used all those degenerate memes to drum up degenerate voters, they might still be in charge of establishment conservative party. But no, they thought they could control the souther white racists and segregationists, evangelical nationalist taliban, and Ayn Randers.

[AJT]

4. Very true.

They led themselves down this path. This has been going on for decades. Rush Limbaugh didn't just appear yesterday. This has been a long journey.

[calimary]

7. We just have to make sure we don't get dragged down with them.

[Arkansas Granny]

26. Hate speech has been around for a long time. Trump has learned to use it

to his advantage.

[LiberalArkie]

34. The Republican Party had a choice way back in the early 60's. Goldwater or Rockefeller

[Beartracks]

6. Yep. Good Republicans will see and acknowledge this. But...

... it's doubtful there are many of them left.

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[RVN VET71]

25. There are no good Republicans anymore

Like the elusive "good Nazi" in the 30's, they either stayed because they were never any good in the first place -- or they left when Trump arrived on the scene and made it OK to spew racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and bigoted filth publicly.

Any lingering doubters surely tore their membership cards up when they saw what Trump did after Charlottesville and, later, in Helsinki. Anyone who is still a Republican is tied to everything Trump and King and the Proud Boys stand for, period. They tacitly support collusion with dictators like Putin, Saudi's ruling Prince, Kim, and Duterte. They are in agreement with and fully supportive of financial fraud, treasonous deals with our nation's most dangerous enemy, racist actions by psychopathic police, kidnapping children and casting them into abusive baby jails. They are in agreement that the American media is the "enemy of the people" and that journalists working for American newspapers who are murdered and dismembered by a savage and sadistic regime carry no weight when compared to the money America can make doing deals with the murderer.

They are, simply stated, shameless soldiers for greed and the dissolution of everything that was ever "great" about America.

(Yeah, I used to be one of them, Republicans, I mean, but I got out when George H.W. Bush used blatantly racist ads -- remember Willie Horton? -- to win one presidential election and wrapped himself in the American Flag -- by pushing jingoistically for a flag burning amendment -- in an unsuccessful bid to win another. I'm not really a Democrat, but I lean liberal-socialist these days and find myself daydreaming that AOC is really 35 years old. It's been a long, strange trip, indeed!)

[sprinkleeninow]

12. You are correct in that. * did not 'do it' to them. He just brought out what

is/has been ingrained.

Making it 'in your face' brazenly deliberate to a great number of us in shock, but acceptable to 'followers' of the same makeup.

[Sherman A1]

18. Yup

He isn’t the case at all. He simply exploited what was already there.

[Cosmocat]

22. T H I S

He is the not the cause, he is the symptom.

decades of bullshit dogwhistling and flat out separating their "base" from reality softened up the ground for a full on autocratic lunatic like this.

We can't dig out of this until the entirety of "conservatism" is rejected ...

[underpants]

27. ✅

[LiberalArkie]

35. I would say that Goldwater and Pat Robertson did the party in.

[PatSeg]

29. Yes, I was thinking the same thing

Trump didn't create this mutated version of the republican party, the party created Trump and his deplorable followers. Rick Tyler is deluding himself, longing for something that hasn't existed in decades.

As for CPAC, it has been pretty awful for a long time as well. It got crazier, but the ugly intolerance was always there, just not so in-your-face.

[OneBro]

5. So long as greed and racism thrive in America, the republican party will live on.

Many people said the Republican Party was dead when Trump won the nomination. Surely we will not again underestimate the power of greed and racism in America, as well as Putin's ability to use it against US.

[Martin Eden]

19. Unfortunately true

Those two things, plus two more;

Ignorant fools easily conned by Fox News propaganda, and ...

Christian fundies who will always vote R on the abortion issue.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. Current-day Republicans represent the dark side of prosperity.

We're experiencing a substantial loss of old-fashioned humility and empathy in much of America's populace, primarily due to an extended period of prosperity in middle and upper classes. I've watched that happen in many people I've known in the last 40 or 50 years.

If this sort of behavior is typical of upper middle-class people, we can just imagine the psychology of the upper crust.

Good snippet from a great long read in The Atlantic:

Perhaps the best evidence for the power of an aristocracy is to be found in the degree of resentment it provokes. By that measure, the 9.9 percent are doing pretty well indeed. The surest sign of an increase in resentment is a rise in political division and instability. We’re positively acing that test. You can read all about it in the headlines of the past two years.

The 2016 presidential election marked a decisive moment in the history of resentment in the United States. In the person of Donald Trump, resentment entered the White House. It rode in on the back of an alliance between a tiny subset of super-wealthy 0.1 percenters (not all of them necessarily American) and a large number of 90 percenters who stand for pretty much everything the 9.9 percent are not.

From:
The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

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[McKim]

30. Thanks, This is a Great Read

Thanks for mentioning this important article. Everyone at DU should read it! I learned so much from it!

[Volaris]

9. '... antithetical to the conservative movement.'

Bullshit. It's the RESULT OF the conservative movement. I'm glad hes sad for the state of his party, but he should have seen it coming.

We did.

[MBS]

11. yes, for sure.

They've been on this path since Nixon's "Southern strategy" and definitely since Reagan. We are now living the end result of decades of greed and dog-whistle racism.
- Though the shamelessness of their corruption and cruelty on every front, plus the out-and-out betrayal of our national security to ruthless dictators in Russia, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea – and the Republican party consistently enabling that betrayal – is a new and especially disturbing (ok, shocking) development.

[Cosmocat]

23. Y E P

nm

[BumRushDaShow]

13. This happened too because

for 8 years the GOP made it a point to do everything OPPOSITE, without fail, of what Obama did or proposed - even if it was their OWN party's traditional policy.

So they literally threw everything they believed in and promoted in the past, under the bus, and there was nothing left but bigotry, xenophobia, and raw autocratic fascism.

[BigmanPigman]

14. A CNN pundit is stunned by the speech.

Scott Lucas suggested that we (the media) should stop talking about and focusing on the importance of the base/cult and speak to the rest of the country.

[Midnight Writer]

15. No No No, Rick Tyler. You can't say "it's not CPAC anymore". This has ALWAYS been CPAC.

I am sick of these Republican con men positioning themselves for the inevitable collapse of their party.

"It wasn't us conservatives, it was Trump" should be called out as bullshit every time.

[Achilleaze]

16. The Degenerates (R) & their Evil Empire* Allies are totally toxic

* per ronald freaking reagan

[duforsure]

17. CPAC has turned into TCRAP

And the Republican Party is now a hate group and run by fascists who back murderers , molesters , predators, and corrupt criminals and now try to brand Democrats and socialist as really bad for the American people. Fascists are whats bad for our country . That's what they've now become.

[Lonestarblue]

20. Everything about the Republican Party can be summed up in one slogan.

Make America a white, Christian patriarchy again. This isn’t going back to the 1950s; it’s the 1850s. It’s all about ridding “their” country of all the undesirable elements: all minorities, all nonconforming genders, all uppity women, all religions or denominations but right-wing evangelicals. Once we’re all gone, their problems will be solved!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. The GOP did it to themselves in pursuit of permanent power. Is Republicon-Trump Party since 2016.

They created him, cheated for him, enable him, and protect him.

Led by McCONnell.

[UpInArms]

24. Silly Republicans.... they thought they could play with a virus and not get sick(er)

They were already a body infected .... and then they embraced the plague.

[Maxheader]

28. They are as radical as isis...

And just like the minions of isis, they've been led off the path of humanity by liars and flim flam people..

[llmart]

31. And yet how many of them will openly say they are leaving the party and becoming a Democrat?

I could count them on one hand.

[pangaia]

33. Hey TYLER, don't blame trump YOU did this !!

YOU and the rest of your fucking right wing, fascist, greedy, lying friends.

Eat shit...

[Scruffy1]

36. I'm not buying it.

All this talk about the "conservative movement" ever being about anything worthwhile except creating a more powerful oligarchy and having "principles" is pure hogwash. Trump simply does not have filter to cover up what it's always been about:power. Racist can hide behind a pro-life mother hubbard, "free enterprise" is always the first in line for checks from the tax payers, beliefs are more important than facts, and money is the measure of personal worth. He just exposes them for what they are. They will never die because they have all the money and some in the population would rather be ruled than have to take part in a Democracy.

[DonViejo]

37. Locking...

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