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Republicans deeply anxious that Trump is ruining GOP brand
By Katie Glueck
August 16, 2017 6:21 PM
WASHINGTON
If Donald Trumps campaign stomped all over the Republican Partys 2012 plans to build a more diverse movement, his refusal now to squarely blame white supremacists and neo-Nazis for Charlottesville violence has destroyed those efforts entirely.
Following defeat in the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee released an autopsy report offering recommendations for growing the party and improving its dismal standing with minorities and young people. Trump ignored much of that guidance and won anyway. But after the president this week insisted that there were very fine people among those who violently marched at a white supremacist rally, many Republicans fear that Trump is reinforcing the same negative perceptions about the party that they have spent years working to combat.
Our plan is to reach out and talk to people who havent always agreed with us, said Emmanuel Wilder, a North Carolina-based activist with the Young Republican National Federation. Trumps comments, he said, make it that much harder. Its a major step back. The fact that the head of the party cannot call a spade a spade, it hurts its near impossible for us to try to explain. Its not really explainable.
Added a dejected Republican state party chairman, If he intended that thats almost so crazy that its sad. And of course, its counter to what the Republican Party has been trying to do, and sincerely so by most of us, for years: to let people of all races and backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances know they have a home in the Republican Party.
Interviews with a dozen Republican operatives and activists around the country revealed genuine frustrationand for some, disgustover Trumps repeated suggestions that there is an equivalence between the neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and white supremacists who marched in Virginia this weekend, and those who turned out to protest them, even as a woman died after a white supremacist rammed a car into a group of the counter-protesters.
He is destroying the GOP one day at a time, one reckless statement and action at a time, said Sally Bradshaw, a longtime adviser to Jeb Bush who co-authored the autopsy report and went on to leave the party over Trump. Why would anyone consider supporting a political party when the leader of the party is anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, and anti-black? He makes me sick.
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TEB
(12,888 posts)You break it you bought it
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Exposing the greed and racism that's always been there,
but hidden beneath coded language and innuendo.
Trump is a real Republican in every regard -
nasty, duplicitous and not very smart.
Enjoy the view in the mirror.
onetexan
(13,058 posts)enables him. Theyre now just waking up to the abominations this hideous ignorant man has caused & is wprried theyre ruining their brand? Bastard has been doing that since the day they allowed him to run as a GOP candidate.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The autopsy-report was an analysis that relied on facts.
Republicans don't do "facts".
"Facts" are for eggheads, politically correct cosmopolitans and professors.
To quote a generic rural Republican: "That's your book-learning speaking."
The Republican Party already agreed on what their supposed problem is: messaging.
Conservatism is perfect.
And if only people would understand conservatism, they would like it.
The problem is not WHAT they are trying to sell, it's HOW they are trying to sell. Shaddup. End of story.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)sane to oppose him. Either 2 Republicans running or a Republican and an Independent. If Democrats can't win in 2020, we might as well pack it in.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)and putting the country in grave danger.
They are worse than he is. He's a deranged lunatic in a government with checks and balances, they refuse to impose those checks and balances.
brush
(53,851 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
tavernier
(12,400 posts)At least something good might come out of this tragedy.
obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)tanyev
(42,610 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)be known as the Republi-klan Party and Democrats should begin branding them with that today.
spanone
(135,873 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)on All In last night use that term and I liked it. Can't recall his name, kind of an odd name, but he was very enthusiastic in his denunciation of Republi-klans. My point is the right wing has branded us as liberal snowflakes, commie sympathizers, socialists and all that, and we should turn the tables on them.
We don't have 1500 media outlets to do it but each person can start it with posts here, Facebook, or anywhere else we can get that out.
spanone
(135,873 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)Spelling is probably wrong
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)They have coined the term "alt-left" and used it often enough the it's close to sticking as a known faction of the Democratic Party. It's up to us to say "no", you don't get to define us.
Say anything long and loud enough and people will latch on to it as fact -- unless there's a hard enough push against the loud rhetoric.
Squinch
(51,004 posts)fence.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)dembotoz
(16,832 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)You built that!
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)They have done the math, and they have determined that they stand to gain more by sucking up to Nazis than by reaching out to a more diverse electorate.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)That quote from Sally Bradshaw has me ROFLMAO. I guess she was unaware that her boss' grandfather was doing business with Hitler while his own country was at war with him.
Hey Sally, it's not just your party leader that is anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, and anti-black. Open your eyes, you twit. That describes your whole ratfuck party from top to bottom. How the hell do you think there were enough people to nominate this asshole in the first place, let alone elect him as President? You are all just like him. Your party has controlled both houses of Congress and two-thirds of the state legislatures for several years. Do you really believe people haven't noticed the sorts of legislation they have been introducing--and passing? All of it is anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, and anti-black, anti-environment, anti-consumer... Your party has been attracting misogynists, racists and nazis for decades. All Trump did was embolden these cockroaches to come out from the woodwork.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)Until they are, fuck 'em.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Any time a party have to result in rigging, cheating, stealing elections, that shit bounds to surface. Suppression of voter rights tends to surface. Treating fellow Americans like crap bounds to surface, in other words "eff you" GOPs.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Last I checked, the GOP still have policies in place to make American workers poorer and they sell this shit plan by appealing to their lottery hopes. They use words like "incentive", "opportunity" and "potentially" instead of having any plan in place to give wages a boost and to make education less expensive and easier to attain.
With their brand of Capitalism not being designed to have a long-term future and no intention of helping anyone but board members, it's kind of a wonder why the American people still fall for Republicans. Or not.
shanny
(6,709 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Yeah well, Sally, get in line to puke into the toilet. Where were you when Trumpy was spewing birtherism all over the airwaves?
Coventina
(27,172 posts)It's done.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)If you had shut down the bigotry then, Trump never would have gotten a foothold.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)HAB911
(8,914 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)cheap shit, plated over with a thin veneer of gold.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Loud racism v. well polished dog whistles is really what they are upset about.