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packman

(16,296 posts) Wed Feb 7, 2018, 10:23 PM Feb 2018

a syllogism:Logic 101 Republican Party has become Trumpism

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(1) The GOP has become the party of Trumpism.
(2) Trumpism is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law.
(3) The Republican Party is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law.

If the syllogism holds, then the most-important tasks in U.S. politics right now are to change the Republicans’ trajectory and to deprive them of power in the meantime. In our two-party system, the surest way to accomplish these things is to support the other party, in every race from president to dogcatcher. The goal is to make the Republican Party answerable at every level, exacting a political price so stinging as to force the party back into the democratic fold.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/

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a syllogism:Logic 101 Republican Party has become Trumpism (Original Post) packman Feb 2018 OP

There is no Trumpism......what the media calls Trumpism..... Thomas Hurt Feb 2018 #1

Thomas Hurt

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1. There is no Trumpism......what the media calls Trumpism.....

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Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:23 AM

Feb 2018

is a rebranded version of the same paranoid, far right ideology that has been around in one form another since the Civil War.

KKK/minutemen/neo nazis
Birchers
Patriot Movement
militias
randian utopians
constitutionalist/sovereigns
reconstructionists/dominionists
tax protesters and tax scammers

A lot of overlap, but basically, racist, scapegoating, jingoistic, militaristic, authoritarian, misogynist, anti-intellectual, religious co-opting.......modern American fascism.

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