Don't Call It 'Trumpism,' Steve Schmidt. It's Republicans, (It is the new Republicanism)

[UCmeNdc]

MSNBC has Steve Schmidt and other never-Trumpers on their programs to appear to have "balance" in their coverage. To appear to be saying "see, we have Republicans on to bring 'debate' to our programming."

What they are really doing is building a lifeboat for a Republican Party to keep on doing the "tax cuts for billionaires and slash social programs rhumba" they've always done. As long as they can re-brand their party, or in this case, brand what Trump is doing as "not-Republican," but "Trumpism," they win.

They did it with Bush by funding the Tea Party.
And with Trump by calling what he's doing "Trumpism."

But most voters, it turns out, are freaked out as much by the threat the Republican Party poses to their health insurance as they are by Trump's narcissism.

It's Republicans who tried to repeal Obamacare with zero "replacement" scores of times.

And the voters and potential voters in the #MarchForOurLives Never Again movement know that it's Republicans taking money from the NRA slaughter lobby.

It's Republicans who cut taxes for billionaires, spent obscene borrowed money on the Pentagon, and now want a "balanced budget amendment." Why do you think? Everybody knows.

It's Republicanism!

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/03/dont-call-it-trumpism-steve-schmidt-its

[TheBlackAdder]

1. This is true. "Trumpism" creates an "other" that Republicans can disassociate--no direct linkage.

[poboy2]

11. Right. And don't let the get away using teabagger either. They're all deplorable REPUBLICANS. -nt

[chuckstevens]

2. The public needs to known that the Republicans OWN this mess!

[erronis]

8. And let that name be forever tainted with what's happened in the last 20-30 years.

I don't know if it was Gingrich or Rove or other players that took a reasonable group of people way down a sewer. It might have started well before with the Nixon era but even then there were a lot of reasonable conservative republicans that would have discussions and debates and be willing to change their minds.

There may still be a few stalwarts in the Senate but they are being slimed to death by the quote-unquote tea party and the huge wads of money.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. It is now the GOP which is a

Subsidiary of Koch Industries. Most likely Incorporated in the Russian Federation.

[erronis]

9. +many. I'd love to see their playbook. "How to Destroy the US While Pretending to be Patriotic."

[Leith]

4. The Same Goes for

David Frum, David Jolly, Jennifer Ruben, and all the others who seem so welcome on MSNBC. They are placeholders for when rumpmania has run its course. Anything they say will seem reasonable and the shitshow will continue under new management. Remember Rmoney and his 47% crack?

[TryLogic]

5. This ABSOLUTELY IS the Republican party.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. They own him. Brands need to be constantly rewelded in voters' minds.

Trump is the apex of 40 years of RepubliConMen efforts.

[Mr. Ected]

7. Trump could legitimately have been assailed separate from the GOP

If the majority in Congress hadn't given him complete cover in every one of his endeavors. The Republicans own every tweet, every day on the golf course, every incident of treason. They are indistinguishable from Trump.

And every one of them is about to get TRUMPLED in the midterms.

[maxrandb]

10. I have been calling them "ReTrumplicans" since they nominated this jackass

Dems all over this country need to start using "RETRUMPLICAN" Party with the same zeal the jackboots have used Democrat (sic) Party for the past 25 years.

Paul Ryan isn't a Republican...he's a ReTrumplican
Mitch McConnell isn't a Republican...he's a ReTrumplican

We need to tie this prick around Retrumplicans necks like a dead chicken!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. Such hypocrisy.

Republicans have courted any extreme elements of our society for as long as I can recall (since the Southern strategy) just to get more votes, and now they want to bitch about the repercussions. As the saying goes "you knew I was a snake when you took me in".

The ultimate one for me was when they started cuddling up to the Religious Right and eventually evangelicals. And, I hope these so-called Repug moderates get cornered and spanked when the real effects of the tax cuts hit home.

As tRump says, "Sad".............