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(2,388 posts) Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:22 AM Mar 2016

Why Republicans hate the Republican Party so much

Warning to Republicans: beware the Ides of March.

That would be Tuesday, Mar. 15, when four crucial states — Florida, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri — will hold primaries. It’s also the first day when Republican rules allow states, if they choose, to hold winner-take-all contests. Florida, with 99 delegates, and Ohio, with 66, are doing just that. Whoever comes in first wins the whole pot.

Both states have a favorite son in the presidential race — Senator Marco Rubio in Florida and Governor John Kasich in Ohio. But the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump leads the polls in Florida and is closely competitive in Ohio. If Rubio and Kasich lose their home states, they would be finished.

Anti-Trump Republicans are investing heavily to stop Trump. Three different political action committees are expected to spend more than $10 million on anti-Trump ads in Florida.

Trump’s response: Go ahead, punks. Make my day. Trump’s spokesman called it “another desperate attempt by the out-of-touch establishment elites and dark money that control the weak politicians to maintain control of our broken and corrupt system.”

For decades, two armies have been at war over the Republican Party. The struggle goes all the way back to 1976, when Ronald Reagan challenged President Gerald Ford and nearly beat the incumbent for his own party’s nomination. It has always been the mainstream Republican establishment (Washington and Wall Street) versus the conservative counter-establishment.

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Republicans want someone to get things done. This is what comes of all the Lodestar Mar 2016 #1

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1. Republicans want someone to get things done. This is what comes of all the

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Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:36 AM

Mar 2016

obstructionism. Utter frustration all the way around. Of course Republicans also believe
that government should be run like a business with "efficiency" as their core mantra. So
perhaps the break up of the party system is the ultimate goal being fulfilled in service of that
end. Therefore it would seem to actually serve the elite corporate interests (which includes Trump) who are behind all this disruptive activity to government:

Trump is not an ideologue. And he’s not a professional politician. He’s a businessman. His supporters believe government should be run like a business.

It’s a deeply held American belief that politics is the enemy of problem-solving. Why can’t we deal with the national debt? Too much politics. Why can’t we deal with climate change? Politics. Trump, like businessman Ross Perot before him, promises to keep politics out of government and just get things done. Everybody knows there’s no politics in business, right?

But there’s a reason government can’t be run like a business. Business is not a democracy. If business were a democracy, it would look like government: less efficient, more political. That’s why Trump has a taint of undemocratic extremism. He wants to run government like a business. With himself as boss.

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