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Zorro

(15,733 posts)
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 10:06 AM Oct 2017

As GOP Senators Bail, Republicans Are Learning What A Trump Party Looks Like

What does a Party of Donald Trump look like?

As a second mainstream Republican chooses to leave the Senate rather than run for re-election in a party led by President Trump, an organization molded by Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan appears to be in an identity crisis that typically afflicts a party out of power, not one that controls both chambers of Congress and the White House.

“What party?” laughed Rick Tyler, a longtime GOP consultant who worked for the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas last year. “It’s hard to say that it’s anyone’s party right now. It is both intellectually and ideologically unmoored.”

Tyler said Trump’s inability to focus on legislation, or even understand it, makes it virtually impossible for him to lead his own party, let alone the nation. “He doesn’t have a core set of beliefs. He never has. He’s going to believe in what’s good for him at the moment,” Tyler said. “The president is supposed to be the North Star in all of these things. And he’s just a constellation. And we’ve got no way of knowing where he’s going to be in six months.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grand-old-trump-party-republicans_us_59efd400e4b04917c59412e4

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As GOP Senators Bail, Republicans Are Learning What A Trump Party Looks Like (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2017 OP
They don't know where he is going to be in 6 months?! BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #1

BigmanPigman

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1. They don't know where he is going to be in 6 months?!
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 10:10 AM
Oct 2017

Neither does he. And not just in 6 months but more like 6 hours! He is CRAZY!

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