Tag: Republican Party

The Republican platform — and the Republican Party itself — has been reduced to one word: Trump.

We have the ability to make this country ungovernable and if we use that power, we can make demands that cannot be ignored.

The Republican Party has decided not to adopt a new platform this year, a move that ensures there will be no public debate at the convention about the direction of the party under Trump.

It is, of course, the day the Republican majority in the U.S Senate decided to quit the Constitution rather than not to acquit a tyrannical president.

With modest audacity, I project February 2020 could in a few years represent the peak of national Republican power.

The two of them have degraded and corrupted American democracy. We need them both out.

That my thought experiment won’t happen, indeed fail badly, reinforces a party going full speed towards a cliff without looking up from its insular "party favors."

Based on their record, what they say and what most of them refuse to do, the vow they made has become meaningless.

“Very straightforward: lavish gifts on the rich, powerful corporate sector and try to undermine and destroy anything that might be of benefit to the general population.”

In the aftermath of Watergate, the country turned to the left. Are progressives positioned to capitalize on Trump's stumbles today?