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(67,112 posts)and/or are too cowardly to stand up to him or their constituents. However, I think for many of the GOP today, tRump is cut from the same piece of cloth that they are ...
RainCaster
(10,912 posts)I am so appalled at what the GOP has become. Can somebody dream up a new party to replace them? Maybe the All-Night Party?
no_hypocrisy
(46,168 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)I should have checked Snopes!
progressoid
(49,996 posts)On 14 July 2008, the Indianola post office was renamed in her honor with the passage of House Bill 4010.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)I couldn't imagine she'd want to return to that town even if they hadn't threatened her.
I hope she had some grandkids or great-grandkids around to see the PO named after her.
Celerity
(43,491 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)He understood that the job was one of service to the nation, and not a perk the nation granted to him. Also--he understood that the onus was upon HIM to do good, and it was the right and the duty of the nation to call him out if he did wrong.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
The only post-WWII Republican who even had a whiff of understanding this was Eisenhower. I think, ironically enough, that Bob Dole, as president, would have understood this as well, even though I am VERY glad we never had to find out.
Calvin Coolidge was (to my very biased way of thinking) far too beholden to the God Squad for me to admire him too much, but he did have his head screwed on straight about a few issues. He came out once with a quote that came close to mirroring TR's quote above:
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
erronis
(15,328 posts)only because my father worked with many administrations (Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon...). Many of them were fine people even if anti-social programs.
Things really went south (southern strategy?) with Nixon although there was plenty of skulduggery during every one. Reagan epitomized the "government is the problem" altho he made government the problem. The beginning of saying-what-you-don't-mean?
Once the vultures got their claws into government via lobbyists, bribes and blackmail, there was no more sense of governance for the people. They're still here.
As Shakespeare might have said: "First, get rid of K Street."
japple
(9,838 posts)Newt Gingrich and the Dawn of a Toxic Political Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/books/review-burning-down-house-newt-gingrich-julian-zelizer.html
KentuckyWoman
(6,692 posts)I have always supported Democrats but Republicans seemed at least have decent hearts and work from a fact based environment... up until the run up to Reagan. Sometimes I wondered if it was simply derangement from Nixon getting busted.
Add in the rise of 24 hr cable news and all the changes that destroyed reliable information....
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)Yes you could do that with a Republican back then. I said I preferred a moderate, he said Bob Dole is a moderate, I disagreed at the time. I think he was on to something.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)He was a completely different political animal than the Coolidges and Tafts of the party. Roosevelt was an aberration.
-Laelth
JHB
(37,161 posts)...(which would be a mix of Republican and Democratic factions) called him a "socialist" for some of the policies he championed.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
volstork
(5,403 posts)as would Eisenhower.
Those republicans don't exist anymore.
crickets
(25,982 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)I wouldn't like them back then, or now.
BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)either.
You wanna prove you're a big bad he man? Go after them naked, and bare handed.
Otherwise FUCK OFF.
volstork
(5,403 posts)I have no understanding of those who seek to kill animals for "sport."
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,363 posts)TR led a charge up San Juan Hill.
Don Jr and Eric military records are less stellar.
keithbvadu2
(36,887 posts)The Trumps are not shy about proclaiming how much they have 'sacrificed'.
Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's 'sacrifices,' he writes
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/visit-to-arlington-cemetery-reminded-donald-trump-jr-of-all-his-family-s-sacrifices-he-writes-1.606501
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,363 posts)mgardener
(1,817 posts)Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian
A View of Animals That Theodore Roosevelt Shot - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/nyregion/a-view-of-animals-that-theodore-roosevelt-shot.html
SmithsonianRoosevelt African Expedition - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian%E2%80%93Roosevelt_African_Expedition
pansypoo53219
(20,993 posts)so not what they are now.
FakeNoose
(32,726 posts)I love sharing this on DU:
Squinch
(50,993 posts)did really, really horrible things.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)TR, Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ had them big time. Wilson in particular did some horrible things to staunch a rising Black middleclass.
dalton99a
(81,569 posts) The Environmental Protection Agency (1970).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, 1970). Proposed by Nixon ...for better protection of life and property from natural hazards for a better understanding of the total environment [and] for exploration and development leading to the intelligent use of our marine resources
The Clean Air Act (1970).
Earth Week (1971).
The Clean Water Act (1972).
The Endangered Species Act (1973).
His opponents claimed, naturally, that all of these seemingly noble gestures were politically motivated. Nixon didnt care about he environment: he knew lots of Americans did care, and he wanted to divert attention from the disaster in Vietnam. Theres probably a grain of truth in it, but so what?
And his 1974 plan for comprehensive health insurance
The current vintage of Republicans are fucking traitors and thieves
Nitram
(22,861 posts)ended up signing the bill into law once he accepted that the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress would pass it over a veto. Nixon was a politician first and foremost, and he wanted credit for a progressive bill if it was inevitably going to pass.
Nitram
(22,861 posts)he ran for president as a member of his Progressive ("Bull Moose" Party.
NNadir
(33,541 posts)...a time, they were pushing against racism and bigotry, beginning with Lincoln, continuing with Grant, up to and including TR.
Our party was like their party as late as 1960, although there was considerable dissent.
The push against racism in the Democratic Party began with the greatest Democrat of the 20th century, Eleanor Roosevelt, and became official under LBJ.
I have read accounts of Ms. Roosevelt having had to be nice at dinners in the White House with the likes of segregationists like James Eastland.
We now oppose racism while they revel in celebrating it.
Above all, we must fight to restore decency to America.
MAKE AMERICA DECENT AGAIN. MADA!