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kpete
Feb 2017
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Delphinus
(11,830 posts)1. I agree with Bill Kristol?
The world has turned upside down!
dem4decades
(11,282 posts)2. I follow him now, it's crazy.
BumRushDaShow
(128,870 posts)3. I still can't belive Kristol is doing this.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)4. Don't forget, the Republican Party is deeply fractured
The people wanted Trump. The Republicans did not, but they had no choice and co-opted him anyway.
Real conservatives are as sickened by this turn of events as we are. Although they deserve him and we don't.
BumRushDaShow
(128,870 posts)5. Oh I know they are
but they still lock-step when it comes to certain initiatives that they want.
Since I saw Kristol on here, I checked out another who was highly critical of Drumpf during the election season (Krauthammer) and the type of responses he's giving now includes this today -
There is no tonic like winning. He came in third last year, and he was booed the year before when he talked about putting boots on the ground in the Middle East. I think Susan is right. This is a coming together of the conservative movement or at least a part of it. This is mostly the younger, more-edgy part, the one that wouldve been more receptive to a Milo presentation. I think it marks an important moment, and what was interesting was Bannon. He came in. He had no horns. He sounded rather amiable. But on the other hand he was absolutely unswerving, and he sort of gave intellectual heft to Trumpism. He was very specific about the three major goals: foreign policy, domestic economic policy, and what he called the undoing of the administrative state, the first volley in that war was the abolition of the bathroom bill or at least the directive coming from HHS essentially, the federal government has no business here and in all the cabinet opponents. So I think it was a real plus for them, and it presented a picture that for many conservatives not all, some have trouble about the trade issue and the protectionism issue but for many conservatives it was a kind of homecoming.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445201/steve-bannon-supports-trump-intellectual-positions-cpac?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ctake&utm_medium=social&utm_content=bannon
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445201/steve-bannon-supports-trump-intellectual-positions-cpac?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ctake&utm_medium=social&utm_content=bannon
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)7. The normalization of the Felon in Chief begins
Someday these people's words will hang them like a noose.