It’s become yet another subsidiary of Trump Inc.

When historians chronicle the end of the Grand Old Party, they may mark 2024 as the turning point. Something called the Republican Party will surely exist for years to come, like a legacy brand subsumed by a competitor, but it appears to be coming to its end as a functional party. Instead, the Republican Party has become just another subsidiary of Donald Trump Inc.

Yesterday, Trump announced his effective takeover of the Republican National Committee, endorsing Michael Whatley, the chair of the North Carolina GOP, as chair; his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair; and one of his top campaign advisers, Chris LaCivita, as chief operating officer. LaCivita will reportedly also remain with the Trump presidential campaign, splitting time. The current chair of the party, Ronna McDaniel, is stepping down because of pressure from Trump.

Officially, these are only recommendations, but they seem nearly certain to become reality.

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    5 months ago

    To be fair, neither party has truly been a political party ever since lobbying has been an ok thing to do.

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      False equivalency. They. Are. Not. The. Same.
      Do both parties have some issues in common? Sure. Does our system need reform? Absolutely. But just because there is some overlap in the Venn diagram that is our political system does not make them the same. At least the democrats are trying to govern.

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        Problem is half of the population sees it as that. And a growing chunk seems to reject the other choice because of what is happening in the other side of the world.

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      The Democrats still make an attempt at governing; passing bills, doing things that are good and preventing things that are bad. They often do it with a slanted view of which socioeconomic bracket these good things and bad things are going to be defined for, but the Republicans aren’t even trying to do that anymore. They’re just showing up every day and shitting all over the carpet and telling racist jokes. Fight our geopolitical enemies? Fuck that, we like our enemies. Stop the government from shutting down? Fix the economy? Etc etc, and so on.

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        We have an entire generation of whiners in voting age now, who care about what is happening outside of the borders more than fixing what lies within. It’s gonna be an interesting November. Just saying.

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          Didn’t Trump’s botched covid response kill like a million Americans within our borders and lead to the biggest economic catastrophe in living memory? Seems like not doing that again would be a good way to start fixing what’s within our borders. The fact that Trump is an epic disaster abroad, in no way means he’s not an epic disaster domestically.

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            Trump is an epic disaster. Period. Not sure what you inferred from my post that states otherwise. We have roughly half of the population who steadfast want trump back, and a growing number of discontents who cant see people hard at work trying to fix the problems because Biden can’t wave a wand and fix the middle east problem, so will vote against the Dems. Trump is gonna happen if that second bunch of clowns follows through.

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              Oh, got it. My apologies; I thought you were a Trump supporter saying young Democrats were the whiners. And yes I 100% agree with you about anyone on the left who wants to not support Biden, because he’s not golden enough to vote for him to prevent the end of the world.

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              because Biden can’t wave a wand and fix the middle east problem, so will vote against the Dems.

              Uh… People were literally found guilty in the Numenberg trials for less than what Biden does for Israel.