GOP Activists vs. ‘Donorists’: Pick Your Poison (from The American Conservative)

[DonViejo]

By SCOTT GALUPO • September 30, 2013, 12:49 AM

After Mitt Romney’s failed bid for the presidency, the GOP’s first brainstorm was to tackle the immigration issue and thereby mend fences (as against building a literal one) with the country’s growing Hispanic population.

The resultant legislation—the so-called Gang of 8 bill—was a perfect expression of business-class consensus: a reform whose approach to the importation of temporary workers would have aggravated the plight of low-wage, low-skill workers and eventually paved the way for a two-tiered labor market.

The flawed immigration reform proposal, added to the party’s longstanding fealty to the investor class when it comes to upper-bracket tax rates, drove Ross Douthat to complain of Republican “donorists”: rich social moderates who mix more easily with the cosmopolitan elite than with grassroots conservatives.

This past weekend, after which a government shutdown over Obamacare seemed all but certain to proceed, has seen the ascendance of a more authentically populist conservatism.

As Tom Petty sang years ago, I can’t decide which is worse.

For the push to “defund,” or merely delay the implementation of, Obamacare is maybe the most moronic and counterproductive gambit yet devised by the fire-breathing right flank of the congressional GOP.

Full article:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/gop-activists-vs-donorists-pick-your-poison/

[wandy]

1. Read carefully. Once again this article screems.................

The only thing republicans care for is their odds of wining the next election and the wellbeing of their stakeholders.
The American people, be dammed, as long as we trick them into voting for us.

[DonViejo]

2. Exactly, Wandy. And I think it's important

this article was published in Pat Buchanan's The American Conservative