35 Burst results for "Republican Party."
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Brandon Straka Has a Brand New Social Media Website: Walk Away Social
"This centering us on the really big popular platforms, but whether it's true social, whether it's walkway social, get Apollo, rumble or what have you, we're creating not only redundancy and multiplying options, but are we not creating little enclaves, little ghettos for ourselves? What is the long-term logic of saying a boo boo to Facebook and Twitter? Well, first of all, I'm still on Facebook. I'm still on Twitter. You know, there are a lot of people who are just so in the habited ingrained to just open that every day and look at that. So I'm not, I'm not necessarily telling people that they should leave Facebook or Twitter or anything like that. And yeah, I'm very aware that we have a lot of options at this point with social media platforms, some are going to succeed in some or not. But again, I guess what I try to sort of drill home is that we're not trying to be a competitor with big tech in any way, shape, or form. What we're trying to do is basically build an autonomous community of people who can use their voice and use video and written testimonials to tell their own stories about why they're either walking away from the Democratic Party or why they what we say walk with for lifelong conservatives and Republicans. I want to give them a voice to make their testimonials as well. And this group, what we call the walk with, they loved that on Facebook. And they love it on walk away social. What we say is number one, you know, make a video and talk about white people should walk away. But I think more importantly, talk about why you really are a conservative, why you're a Republican in that this isn't what the left wing media wants people to believe that we're all racists and Nazis and insurrectionists and bigots that it's actually a very open and inclusive and big tent community. The Republican Party. And that we welcome people who are black and brown and of different colors and creeds and orientations and everything else.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Trump and DeSantis Need Each Other for the GOP to Win in 2024
"The reason I think that Trump and the Senate need to cut this out, and at least start talking to each other, is because I don't know if either of them can win without the other. Let's explore these two scenarios. First scenario, Trump is a nominee. And but Trump is the nominee in part because he bludgeons desantis, he bloodies up desantis. He launches this kind of it's me or him. Attack and the maga people stay with Trump and it's the mainstream of the Republican Party. So Trump gets the nomination, but he doesn't get the whole Republican Party and there are a lot of people who like desantis who are really annoyed that not only to see a rival that they like, but to see the next generation being bashed by Trump. No good leader kind of mops up the next generation. The idea is that you cultivate the next generation. These people go were really injured. We're going to stay home on election day, and then we lose in 2024. Option two desantis wages a kind of scorched earth battle against Trump. He's able to peel off Trump voters, Trump voters begin to think, listen, you know what, desantis can win. Trump is too radioactive. Trump is facing so many investigations. How did the arguments that many of the dissenters people make, but you leave all the maga enthusiasts of Trump, people who love Trump, feeling betrayed, feeling angry, feeling that Trump deserved his vindication and they're like, we're going to stay home. We're not going to vote for desantis. So this is just a complete disaster either way. And now consider the possibility of Trump at this end is somehow teamed up, working on the same team, recognizing that they have differences but nevertheless putting them aside for the good of the party and the good of the country seems to me that is the strongest ticket with the best prospects for winning in 2024.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
DeSantis and Trump Need to Cut This Out...
"I've been gone for a week and during that week, some ongoing skirmishes between Trump and desantis that I want to comment on and take stock of. So on the desantis side, we saw two things going on. The first is the interview with Piers Morgan. And also a statement that desantis issued, and the combined effect is designed to make a case a critique of Trump saying in effect, look, he had a lot of good ideas, but he didn't do all of them. And there's too much personal drama, and I'm the opposite of that. I get things done, I'm not interested in drama. I am a doer, not a talker. I don't make myself the center of attention. And all of this, look, there's some merit in it clearly. And at the same time, it rang hollow because it was so ill timed. You are, in fact, there was a lot of talk last week about an imminent arrest of Trump. Now that has pushed into this week, we'll see what happens. But nevertheless on the verge of this unprecedented event, a former president, the leading figure in the Republican Party, being put into handcuffs for desantis to come out charging. I mean, it was just ill advised and ill timed and showed a certain kind of lead footedness that we haven't seen that much from desantis. Now on the Trump side, Trump came out and said, well, I think it's very unlikely that desantis will be my running mate. Trump goes on to say that he's a very mediocre governor, yeah, Florida has done pretty well, but did pretty well before and he's got a lot of sunshine. That's why people like Florida. And in my view, this is also misguided. And it's misguided because actually dissent, this has been a very good governor. He's not a rhino. He is right when he says that he's been very effective. He's a vast improvement over his predecessors. We're lucky to have him. And Florida.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: DeSantis nor Trump Are the Future for the Republican Party
"I disagree completely. All right, tell me why. Good, good. I'm glad I want to get another point of view here. Join me. Go ahead. Hi. I don't think desantis or Trump are the direction to be going. And I don't see them as a pair in any way, shape or form. Who do you like? Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley. I want to go this entirely different direction. I want to I want to drop this old angry old people party direction we're trying to push here. All right, let's see what others think Walter thinks Nikki Haley's the future of the GOP in 2024,
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Caller Alex Has Some Thoughts About Trump and DeSantis
"Alex in Brooklyn line four. It's the best and thanks for taking the call. So I'm identifying as a woman for the sake of not getting thrown off the year because I'm going to be disagreeing with you as well. I want Trump to be president. I do not want him to be the nominee the Republican Party because I don't think he can win. That's my opinion and people can disagree, but the way you're going after desantis really disturbs me. Because he said, no, he wouldn't want to be the vice president. You want to say it's about his ego. Well, Trump would say the same thing. No. But it doesn't matter Trump has been the president. He's proven himself. Why would somebody who's been a governor and a member of the House be so arrogant as to say, you know, it's beneath me to be vice president. Can you justify that, Alex? Just justify that for me. Barely does a damn thing. It's the second most powerful person in the world, Alex. Don't make excuses for this man. It's beneath you, my friend. It's beneath you. Don't make excuses for him. What kind of arrogance is that to say, I'm more important than being the vice president? Absolutely because you can accomplish things. The vice president can barely do anything to accomplish. And then what happens four years later when president Trump can't run for a third term? You know, you haven't thought this through, my friend. You'll repeating, talking points, and it's very, very sad.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
NY Post: Trump Threatens 'Death and Destruction' to Alvin Bragg
"Didn't have this on my bingo card. Trump posts disturbing photo with Alvin Bragg threatens death and destruction. Here's the New York Post characterizing the last 24 hours. Former president Trump sparked outrage by sharing images showing him holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's head as he threatened death and destruction if he is criminally charged, Trump shared the image, which was featured in a link to an article on his truth social platform, he kept on raging until the early hours of Friday morning with continued incendiary name calling, he wrote after 1 a.m., here's what he posted after one in the morning. What kind of person can charge another person in this case a former president who got more votes than any sitting president in history and leading candidate by far for the Republican Party nomination with a crime when it is known by all that no crime has been committed and also known that potential death and destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our country. Why and who would do such a thing only a degenerate psychopath that truly hates the USA? Now, like I said, never thought I'd be asking you about stuff like this.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
AOC Believes Parents Having a Say in School Is 'Fascism'
"You want nuts? I'll give you nuts. Let me give you Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez railing against the prospect of parents knowing what their kids are being taught. Railing against parents having a say in what their kids are being taught, kids as young as kindergarten. They are asking the Republican Party to keep culture wars out of classrooms. Our children need urgent and aggressive educational solutions. The American library association coming out against this Republican proposal. When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is. And that is freedom over fascism. Thank you. Gentlemen, this time has expired. The gentleman freedom over fascism, so it's fascistic for parents to have any knowledge or say in their child's education.
Mark Levin
You Are Living in a Tyranny
"Are living in So many respects a tyranny You're living in a tyranny A former president of the United States who is in many polls if not most the leading candidate for the Republican nomination whose announced his candidacy Is the target of the opposition party The opposition party is using its Elected DAs To go after the putative leader the Republican Party and Joe Biden is using his Department of Justice directly Through his attorney general And a special counsel with two grand juries two just to be sure To go after his leading political opponent and threat That's the bottom line Regardless of what our friend our Friends our former federal prosecutor Friends and others say the case in Georgia is no better The cases there concocting and Washington D.C. are no better They're all a mirage No citizen should be treated this way
The Charlie Kirk Show
Mike Davis Shares the Latest on Trump's Looming Indictment
"Joining us now is Mike Davis from the article three project. So Mike, I'm told you are ahead of the curve on all of this. Walk us through it. What is the latest in breaking news? What do you know? Well, I mean, we see that Soros funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg seems like he's pretty determined to bring these political charges against president Trump and indict him on his bogus legal theory, trumped up charges on a bogus legal theory. They, you know, I don't know if he's pausing or backing down or what, because it seems like there were hearing word that the indictment could be pushed back to next week, but you still have the Bragg's office coordinating with the Secret Service, other federal and state and local law enforcement agencies. They have the security fence around the Manhattan courthouse. So it looks like it's full steam ahead for Alvin Bragg, mission accomplished for him politically. He's campaigns on the fact that he wants to take out Trump. If you look at his Twitter, both his Manhattan DA office and his personal Twitter feeds, he has penned tweets showing his Trump arrangements. And so this is going to backfire spectacularly on the Democrats. This is waking people up. Well, so let me ask you, what do you mean by backfire? I mean, because I have a ton of respect for you, Mike, but I'm not sure that's true. I mean, the Mar-a-Lago raid didn't wake anybody up. Well, I mean, at the Mar-a-Lago ray, Trump's poll numbers went up by 11 points, but the midterms were hardly a resounding success. Well, I understand that, but if you look at what they're going to do is unify the Republican Party around president Trump, they're going to do the impossible, which is to agree with that. Yeah, in the primary. I'm just not sure if regular I think I'm not sure if it's going to have this. I've been waiting for the boomerang for years when I'm getting that, right? And I don't mean to be cynical, but I see no evidence that any of this stuff actually backfires. It just seems as if we become less free. I mean, Gretchen Whitmer won reelection in Michigan by 8 points and she was cruel to her people.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing Unpack the News of the Day
"Happiest in studio with me, your favorite Joe digenova Victoria than Singh. On a day, a hundred and 64 years ago, when the Republican Party was established, which led to the abolition of slavery, thanks to the first Republican president called Lincoln, little public service announcement there, yes. The KKK was the armed wing of the Democrat party and the first Republican president was the great emancipator. I think it is upper side for us to discuss some Republican responses to the news of the last 72 hours, saying that for some reason, one side of the political divide should surrender their rights to protests. You know if they never said Black Lives Matter, I don't think you should go out there and protest. After George Floyd. But remember, this was in the middle of the pandemic. And everyone was told to stay home. Stay home, don't go out. And don't congregate when groups. Yes. And all of a sudden, after George Floyd, a whole bunch. I mean, like a hundred and some doctors, quote unquote, wrote this public statement saying, well, we said not to go out, but there are some causes that are more social. That are more important. Don't let this be an okay for you to go out and protest being locked up. And basically they said that in the public letter, it was pathetic.
The Doug Collins Podcast
One of the Greatest Republican Issues of Recent Times
"One of the greatest problems that Republican Party has had in the last 15 years is the line from 2010 and that was that we will repeal ObamaCare. Repeal ObamaCare, repeal ObamaCare. And we kept telling our voters that all through 2011, 12, and so we're going to do this without having a mechanism to do it. And you can go vote in house the House of Representatives to do something, but if it never gets to the Senate and never gets the presidential signature, guess what? It never happened. And so for years, Republicans were able to Nick away at the ObamaCare legislation basically gutting it for a many, many ways. 8 or 9 times that a president Obama actually signed that basically gutted much of the ObamaCare legislation, but we could not tell that to voters on the Republican side because all they heard was repeal ObamaCare. They don't care that it doesn't work the way it should. And it's not as effective as what they had hoped it would be. And but yet it did have enough of an impact in which it changed the whole landscape of healthcare in this country. And when we had the opportunity, we failed.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Vivek Ramaswamy: A Cultural Campaign to Restore Our National Identity
"And that's what this campaign is all about. It is not even a political campaign. It is a cultural campaign to restore a missing national identity. And I think that's the secret to actually addressing our real challenges, unleashing the American economy, unleashing the power of American productivity, taking on China on the global stage, we can do these things but only if we believe in ourselves here at home and right now what happens is we have this black hole of a vacuum in American life where woke ism climate is gender ideology. They will fill the void when you have this black hole of meaning and purpose at the heart of the American soul. What I'm doing is we need to fill that void of purpose with something more meaningful. A rich vision of national identity and if we do that and only if we do that, then can we take on the economic and foreign policy challenges that we face? And I'm running for president because I think it's going to take a real outsider to actually be able to do this job. Donald Trump was a real outsider back in 2015 and 2016. I give him credit for what he did. You get to be an outsider once. At the end of the day, now we need a fresh perspective of somebody who can really call out and I've been doing this even this relates to the Silicon Valley bank situation relates to a lot of the corruption in the RNC. I am going to be the number one fighter in this country against corruption at every level. Corruption in the federal government, corruption in the woke industrial complex in the ESG movement, even corruption within the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party itself. I will not take any, I will not hold back any punches. And the reason why is I'm not beholden to some donor class. You know, I've lived the full arc of the American Dream. I didn't ring a tin can asking for Republican donors for permission to run. I'm going to do this by speaking truth. I think that's a formula to win, but you know what? If it's a formula to lose, so be it, I'd rather not win and actually be captured by a system. I'm going to be speaking truth at every step of the way.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lord Conrad Black Unpacks Trump's Latest Strategy
"Question president Trump's wisdom. I rarely do this, but I question it in this case where he's holding up the santas as a Reagan Republican. I don't think that's anything to be embarrassed about. And I guess it's the best he can do, but I wouldn't do it if I were him. I'd make my arguments at the he was a he Trump as a preferable candidate to desantis on another basis. But I think that Republican Party between Reagan and Trump, the bush McCain Romney party. I think they did basically they failed. And the Republican Party will not go back to them. And president Trump repositioned the Republican Party, approaching upon traditional democratic fiefdoms in less advantaged areas in particular. African American and Hispanic American areas and he did it by transporting traditional Theodore Roosevelt Dwight Eisenhower capitalism, Republican capitalism into those districts with the tax incentivized investments creating employment in those districts. And it was a stroke of genius. He used traditional Republican capitalism to attack the democratic stranglehold on African American Hispanic American voters and unless the Republican Party has a collective IQ in a negative area. I mean, less than zero.
The Officer Tatum Show
Why Competition Is Necessary?
"All right, ladies and gentlemen, I was just looking at the, I don't want to finish what I was saying about Carrie Lake in the Republican Party. We need competition. You don't just get the float into the presidency. You know, it's just like playing football. It's like, just because you were a junior, just say, hypothetically, let's say you're in a football team, just like I was. I mean, this is how my football career went. Just because you were an elite athlete and you are an all American football player. Don't mean that they're just going to guarantee you a spot. You may be by far the best athlete. They're not going to gain treat the spot. There needs to be competition. People need to get out there and compete. You don't just get handed the presidency just because you got to compete, man. You got to have a better argument. You got to give the people an opportunity to make a real decision. This is not a communism? You know, just pick a leader because they, no, man, I want to see some competition. I want to see. I mean, to be honest, I want to see Ron DeSantis. Campaign against Donald Trump and Donald Trump against Ron DeSantis. I want to see if we're on the Santa's fold like a lawn chair. Or can he stand up? Because therefore, let me tell you this. If Ron DeSantis can't stand up to Donald Trump in this election, I don't want to run the santas in 2028 or whatever whenever that'll be. He don't need to run for office. He needs to stay a governor.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Lauren Boebert: Real Oversight on the Federal Government
"Sky Fred Siegel he he's written books about one of them is called revolt against the masses And in there he discusses how liberals basically move liberalism along through the telling of narrative stories not the truth but stories And he talks about congresswoman the iron triangle all the time And the iron triangle is congressional committees activist groups in the liberal media He says in other words think it through right You want to push out a liberal narrative like the polar bears are dying or whatever it may be right You get a congressional committee to do a hearing show some pictures of some dying polar bears right And activist group takes it and runs with it Pins are everywhere in a college campus save the polar bears and then you have the media running stories on CBS News and Rachel maddow Oh my gosh the polar bears are dying They've been doing this for years Now as a member of Congress for a few years now so now you know the routine you've been there You got the lay of the land I am so grateful that members of the Republican Party the good ones not the swampy ones The good ones like yourself are starting to figure this out That this stuff matters I'm sorry that I really am sorry that there's a performance component to politics I wish there weren't But this is the real world And the Republicans are finally figuring it out You guys want to use congressional committees to show the world what's going on We're going to show the world what's really going on in our committees That's exactly right And we actually have real oversight now We have been stifled and unable to have congressional oversight in the House of Representatives for several years now because Democrats held the gavels And now we have those gavels and we are actually able to conduct oversight and the federal government What a concept these agencies that were created by Congress funded by Congress will really by the taxpayers but appropriated by Congress they have to answer to us now Come in and tell us what is going on Even in oversight we've had hearings on the waste fraud and abuse with the COVID money that went out over 500 $1 billion
The Officer Tatum Show
May the Best Man Win
"I don't care what you could be in a wheelchair with no legs, and you can't even talk. If you can produce, then I want you to be in that position. Even if, you know, I don't believe in the homosexual lifestyle or anything like that. But may the best man win. In my personal opinion, I made the best woman win. I prefer people who are Christians. I prefer people who do the right thing. But at the end of the day, if you ain't a Christian and you can still get the job done, then I prefer the job getting done versus a religious person or a Christian person who ain't doing Jack. IE Mitt Romney, the Cyrus Mormon Christian on Planet Earth with no backbone, completely feckless. I prefer not to have him in office, even if a person was secular. They probably can do better than what Mitt Romney and some of these airheads who are in the Republican Party are representing. So let me just end it with this because I got to get to the break. I think Donald Trump is going in the right direction, but I would like to see Larry elder as his vice president over Carrie Lake Kerry Lake, I love you. I wish that you were the governor of the state of Arizona and I would vote for you again when you run.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Gratitude Is Owed to Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz
"Watched that show last night with my jaw hitting the floor. 40,000 hours and incidentally, you got to hand it to the Matt Gaetz in the Marjorie Taylor greens and the sharp elbowed faction of the Republican Party that sort of forced Kevin McCarthy's hand on this. Remember what was going on when he was trying to get the votes to be speaker? They said you're going to release the January 6th surveillance videos to the media or we're not voting for you. And this was one of speaker McCarthy's concessions. So those controversial Republicans are owed a lot of, I think gratitude for the public getting to see with our own eyes, much of what happened on January 6th.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: Ron DeSantis Should Stay Four More Years in Florida
"100% Trump running in this election. And my take with desantis, I love the fantasy. He's doing great in Florida, but I would like for him to stay four more years in Florida because he's still got a lot to do there. And I know probably him being vice president would Trump would support him. But I think he's going to, if he, if he runs in 2028, he's going to get, is he going to get it? Because he's going to be that kind of a gas. Everybody's going to know Ron DeSantis by that time. If they don't know. I don't want Trump to run independent. Because that just guarantees the liberals will be right in there. Because he'll take so many votes away from the Republican Party, they won't have a chance. Yeah, look, I'm afraid you're right there, Jerry. Yeah, I can understand the temptation, but into the day, bad move. Yeah. Absolutely. And I said, I'm 76 years old. And I said, now this thing about these things, I'm sharp as a tack. I got everything going. Well, you're not Joe Biden. I can bring this around. I got a lot of common sense, but 30 years ago, I kept telling all my Friends, anybody out of jail, I said, the only way this country's economy is going to survive, you had to have a businessman in the running because there's not a politician, those anything about business. That's it. That's it. President Trump came in and he proved it to me. Plus, we got a bonus for how strong it was in the foreign policy.
TIME's Top Stories
"republican party." Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"They'll say something like, I personally don't support gay marriage, but it's settled law, so we're not going to address that. Moran says some GOP lawmakers told him they opposed the bill in the house, not because they don't support same sex marriage, but because they don't want to be seen endorsing an argument that obergefell could be overturned. Moran says he responded that he needs to go to gay and lesbian voters in the fall and tell them that the Republican Party has their back, and if the GOP vote count for this bill is low, it makes that messaging substantially more difficult. The midterms will likely also play a role in the Senate, where Republican lawmakers in tight races will need to evaluate how much a vote against same sex marriage could hurt their chances. Republicans are worried to some extent about giving Democrats another possible mobilizing issue following abortion, says many. LGBTQ advocates are also lobbying for its passage, aware with that with the equality act, which would ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. Stalled in the Senate without GOP support. The respect for marriage act could be the only LGBTQ rights legislation passed before the midterm elections. But opposition to same sex marriage endures on the right and Republicans who vote for it may also risk alienating base voters or donors. Roberts of heritage said in July that defeating the respect for marriage act is one of their political arms top 5 priorities and says their lobbying against the bill and will keep track of how Republican senators vote. In heritage's view, the language of the respect for marriage act passed by the House would open the door for legalizing polygamy and violate religious freedom protections. Since obergefell, we've been looking for the opportunity to re elevate this as a top of mind issue, Robert says, especially for conservatives.
WCPT 820
"republican party." Discussed on WCPT 820
"Checking a price on Al four Okay good She's seeing if there's any of my size in the back Future senator again I think it's a really deep question we have to ask ourselves what is happening with the Republican Party The fact that some of the leading spokespersons are cheering on this monster should be very scary to us This is not where we need to be We should be united as a country against these autocrats Democrats Republicans independents whoever it is there's something wrong that's occurring right now and we're the only people really think you making things right Should be Yeah remember that Remember was no criticizing the president you know frightened when you were an international crisis and okay Yeah All right In his first year we're just out of his first year in office Right Right Right I mean yeah and by the way as anything but an amazing presidency Exactly According to every expert too he has played this absolutely brilliantly and outsmarted Putin and look at why do you think there's protests and all the streets in Russia where you can lose your life protesting It's because everybody sees what Putin is doing Releasing our intelligence was brilliant and even Russian see it So yeah All right 49,000 dictatorship We don't know anybody else's name in that country in that government Nobody Yeah it's an autocratic kleptocracy Like most of their GDP is these Russian oligarchs We ought to just slam the out of them And steal it Yes not steel Cut off their mind Okay 50.
WCPT 820
"republican party." Discussed on WCPT 820
"Lost so badly Joe Biden and completely humiliated because in my family like losing is pretty much the worst thing you could do and being a loser is the worst thing you can be I said you would never put himself in that position again to suffer such an egregious narcissistic injury However what we saw over time was the Republican Party starting to either to back his big lie or remain silent in the face of it and allow him to perpetuate his out of force being that the 2020 election was illegitimate and it was stolen from him because he of course one none of that is true And then January 6th happened and as we've seen over time the Republican Party has also backed him and not put up a fight and not they're not supporting the January 6 committee et cetera so I think that eliminates one obstacle to his running The other issue is that the Republican Party is also making it easier for him to run and not lose In other words as you know in every single state Republican legislatures are trying to push through voter suppression bills So if they can manage to rig the system even more in their favor And obviously the system is very rigged towards Republicans.
Max & Murphy on Politics
"republican party." Discussed on Max & Murphy on Politics
"I think that that shows that, you know, there is room for a center lane in politics, even in places in New York City where people might not expect to find them. And parts of queens, there are pockets of the borough that still like moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans in this district happens to be one of them. Yeah, and we've obviously seen a lot of that conversation playing out throughout this 2021 election cycle, not of course in the mayoral race where it was so much of the conversation, the democratic primary about the left wing versus more of the moderate candidates, but also in a variety of other races down to the local level. And we'll get to the race to replace you in just a second. In terms of your politics, you know, a few months back, I interviewed Joe loda, the 2013 Republican nominee for mayor, who has left the party, registered as a Democrat. He couldn't stay in the party of Trump and the party that has so sort of fervently backed Donald Trump and so he left the party or he had the way he says that the party left him. I'm wondering how you're feeling right now is someone who hasn't supported Donald Trump watching what's happened with the Republican Party, especially just here in New York and how you are thinking about the future of the Republican Party here and how moderate Republicans could potentially sort of claw their way back into some more government power. If you think that's possible and how you're thinking about it as you're looking at the end of your city council tenure. Well, let me just say this. In order for our democracy to thrive, I do believe fundamentally that we need a thriving and competitive two party system. It does not serve government or the people well, when we have one party controlling every single branch of government at every single level and where there is no debate or disagreement on issues and people basically operate in a monolith. So I do believe that for the sake of our democracy as a whole, you know, just taking a broader step back, we do need the Republicans and the Democrats fighting with each other, keeping each other honest, keeping each other in check. And debating the issues that people care about. You know, no one party has a monopoly on good ideas. And there are lots of ideas that were adopted from the Republican Party and also from the Democratic Party similarly when we had a Republican governor a mayor. So that being said, you know, it is a very tough time. I think for Republicans in general, Donald Trump was defeated and the presidential election. And Republicans have lost a lot of ground. This particularly in the northeast and certain places. But I do think that politics is a pendulum that swings to the left. It's sometimes not in New York, but in other places it might swing to the right. But it always does come back to the center. Most New Yorkers, most Americans, I would argue are in that center lane. Do consider themselves, you know, middle of the road, common sense people who just want to go about their lives support their families, follow the rules and the laws of the land and create a better life for themselves and for their families..
Rush Limbaugh Morning Update
"republican party." Discussed on Rush Limbaugh Morning Update
"They're the ones who have authored this. It's their signature on all of this and they are like a lot of other children while like other victims blaming everybody else and that's where we are but the opportunity here. I still like it. I've i've finished my thought i was. I was thinking yesterday. I said and this is picked up a couple of places. And i knew it would be no. I've not forgotten the film. Mushnik thing i got. Don't worry in fact there's a there's a new addition to that that the adrian peterson's this guy's got more kids than he knows out there a couple more have just been discovered but we'll get to that in a moment I said yesterday on this very program that there are times. I feel like we've just lost a war to the communists i use the term communist generically but i i can remember back on a child at a cold war and i as a child. The threat that the soviet union was going to succeed. That was a daily thing you lived with and if you were one who was engaged in all that that was frightening concept and. I almost feel like that's happened here. And then in addition to that it seems like it happened. Overnight mean all through the bush years i guess the signs were there but i missed them. I didn't see the author. Total transformation and i will call it d- teary ration- of the pop culture. I knew it was going on but it was more. It's just with the election of barack obama and then the next day after it is like the country that was founded didn't exist at all and the transformation that obama talked about wanting to make really have already almost been completed. And yet we'd had eight years of borsch not commenting on the specifics of in bushy in policy neo conservative. All the things iraq war but but it was You know how do you go from bush. Winning two elections to where we are now in a spate of a week is like what it seems to me to have happened. And because of that. I don't this is where i'm not living in a false reality because the i don't really think that's happened. We are being asked to believe it has everybody all year russia. He's changing times country changing. It's passed you by you. Know your your sixty to rush. You may as well be eighty two. You're not relevant a you don't know anymore. You know they have anything in common with anybody in this country and if people tell me this you gotta get winded rush. You're not anywhere near hip. No no and this happened overnight. They want us to believe this. They want us to accept it. And they want you to but things don't happen that way i know they've been trying to fifty years and they've been succeeding. Chipping away education. Hollywood but all of this stuff happening here coupled with this inexplicable political cave-in. I mean no opposition to this at all not serious opposition. No serious pushback. Nobody standing up until crews and lee came along to explain what's wrong with what's going on to explain what's wrong with obamacare by the way the obamacare stack today. I wanna funniest things you heard about this. The poor little diarist daily. 'cause this little this little guy i guess he posts their regular. That's why they call him and diarist. He went to his obamacare exchange. Any found out he's going to go bankrupt practically with what the prices are so he wrote about that. He had a headline they call this reform. F this well..
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"republican party." Discussed on Rush Limbaugh Morning Update
"So the republican establishment the democratic stab. There is a full out now. I want to warn you about this because folks. We're going to have to hang tough. We're going to have to i. You may think i'm crazy here. We're going to have to remain as best. We can detached from up. Bucked up optimistic of good. Cheer as best we can because there is an all out assault now not just on cruise and lee and not just on the tea party but on the conservative wing of the party. It isn't new. We've spoken of it on many previous occasions. But now they're being fortified being fortified because now they all think they've got all the ammo they need. And that is this last two and a half weeks brought about strictly by the tea party now. You've got moderate republicans who call themselves conservatives like david from suggesting that the greatest thing that can happen to republican party now is if the tea party just just just branched off and formed. Its own conservative party. You got moderate republicans and some who call themselves conservative. Suggesting you don't want you tea party people. Why don't you just take a hike and even in the new republic today. There's a column. The new republican liberal journal of a pin- opinion telling david from that if the tea party really does that you. Moderate republicans are for ever going to lose. You don't have a prayer of winning if you succeed in driving your base out. This is not the time to abandon. Ted cruz. Or mike lee fox and i'm not talking about sending the money and i'm not talking about anything traditional. I'm just talking about in your hearts and your minds. You know they're right. You know that what they attempted to do here was Was i think valiant. And it's it's It's been an illustration of just how terribly wrong things are and there are plenty of opportunities for lessons to be learned here now. Look i'm not living in a false reality here. i'm. I'm thinking about this last night to while i was pondering if i can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime if i can ever remember a time when a political party just made a decision not to exist for all intents and purposes i mean. Do you know the republican party. Now can't wait to move on amnesty. Paul ryan and eric cantor. They can't wait. Obama can't wait after this cave on the shutdown or whatever you wanna call it. The next move at light. Speed is going to be for amnesty the republican party leading the way. It doesn't make any sense to me. It not in the traditional political sense not to throw money into it. Demands of donors advice of consultants makes total sense. But those are the people that have been securing defeat for this party and those are the people who have set the table that has resulted in where the party is read. They've been running the conservatives have not been running the republican party and nobody can say they have the conservatives have been trying to but they don't. They've not the conservatives do not run the republican establishment and many whatever. The republican party is today is because the wizards of smart that run it are not the conservative..
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"Or wherever you get your podcast. Download it right now. Okay look of ladies and gentlemen so much out there that that seems on the surface to be inexplicable. The problem in this country as the a majority of people recognize this poll. Here look at this. This is a. This is a new poll. Those a pupil. I don't know what why don't they just put what. The poll is early in. It's yeah it is a poll from the pew research center and the bottom line eighty one percent of the people in this country are dissatisfied. Eighty one percent are dissatisfied. You think they're dissatisfied with ted cruz. You think they're dissatisfied with the tea party you think they're dissatisfied with the The opposition to barack obama. The republican party obviously thinks so that is tantamount insanity. New poll shows more frustration with washington over the government shutdown in a risk of default number of people satisfied with the state of the country's plummeting to the lowest level since the two thousand eight financial crisis and it's only fourteen percent of americans say they're satisfied with the way things are going in the country the The survey picked up a strong. Throw the bums out sentiment now. Of course what. This poll a attempts to convince people of is that everything in washington was fine and that everybody was happy with washington until the shutdown. And i everybody we were just robustly happy. And then the shutdown came. And whoever's responsible for that why everybody's really ticked off at them and that would be ted cruz and mike lee and the tea party. And of course the republican and democrat establishments are lined up that way. And that's what the polling data is attempting to establish the fact of the matter is a majority of people in this country have been dissatisfied for a number of years about the way the country is going and you know and i know that the people in this country who are dissatisfied with the way it's going are not dissatisfied with the tea party they are not dissatisfied with ted cruz or mike lee. They are the only opposition to what's been going on. I don't think i was. I was trying to think Earlier today if ever in my life i could remember any political major not a third but any major political party being so irrelevant. I have never seen it. I have never seen a major political party. Simply occupy place holders as the republican party is doing. there hasn't been any opposition not any serious opposition. There may have been votes against this or that. Votes against obamacare there may have been votes against the stimulus but in terms of a policy oriented a package of policies a package principle beliefs of opposition express daily by party leaders against what's happening in this country..
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"Was the so-called zena law against daltry that had been passed in the summer of. Oh four that led to a little mini crisis with the eu. There were a couple of cases in the european court of human rights that they lost having to do with the headscarf ban that elicited reactions. There were some worrying anomalies. I was seeing even before that but after that it became increasingly clear to me that the eu accession process for oregon was something that he had instrumentalise to advance his own political interests. You don't hear for instance air to one saying today. Well screw the copenhagen criteria. We're gonna move the cri- criteria doesn't say that anymore and he has no interest in it. Where do you think that leaves the country now. I mean it seems to me. And visiting angels i think beyond that at this point one is probably less popular than he was Early two thousands but he may be significantly less popular than he was the last few years but that he also gained such complete control over the media in the country. Such far-reaching control not completed fiery koto electoral system. But it's also hard to imagine him being pushed out of office sutton fair but also in free elections. What does it tell us about the future of regimes now essentially just a dictator. Who's going to stay in power like until the end of his life. revolutionary movement or. What's the prospect of turkey and about four time populace regimes that have been consolidated in before town nature to this extent so turkey suffer very badly from very poor quality of its domestic political opposition. The j. pay the people's republican party nominally. The hardy of outta turk. The kemalist party is supposed to be social democratic party. But it's a highly nationalist party the age. P the nationalist party that aired on has allied himself with and i think the best description of the regime is this nationalist regime. That's really what it's become jenny. White who has a very good scholar of turkey friend and she's now the university of uppsala. She's taught being used for many years now in sweden university of uppsala coined that phrase muslim nationalist regime. And i think that's right so the opposition to air to one has been divided and quite feckless but as you say he's lost ground with the public and turkey is on the cusp by believe of a very serious economic crisis a debt crisis domestically and a balance of payment crisis. Internationally they right now. I think are negative. Fifty billion in foreign reserves and after bernie through something like hundred twenty five million this summer under the economic guidance of air john son-in-law and putative successor and therein lies the problem for airline because of the corruption that he and his family i think of engaged in. I think he's got the same problem. Putin does right and a lot of these electoral authoritarians because these are all kind of electoral authoritarian regimes. I can't turn power over to anybody who's not either a blood relative or crony. Who will guarantee that. I'm taking care of in the way that putin himself did for some members of the yeltsin family after they turn things over to him in december of nineteen ninety nine. And that's i think the problem for airline and so the system it's become more and more illiberal and more and more undemocratic. I mean you now see of violent attacks against opposition leaders mrs merrill. Who is the head of the so-called eve party good party who is a splinter group from the nationalist party. She's a former interior minister. She's actually fairly popular figure. She just went to the black sea coast and was attacked by a mob as have other. Opposition leaders in turkey has been clearly instigated by the regime. You were talking about free and fair. Elections elections in turkey have never been completely fair because the media has been so beholden to the state that whoever was in government at a huge advantage with media traditionally. But they'd always been you know free in the sense that there didn't seem to be a lot of chicanery at the ballot box. That's changed over the last half a decade or so certainly in the two thousand seventeen constitutional referendum that created this presidential system. That's made air to one extremely powerful as president. There's lots of indication that the vote was fiddled to get over the fifty percent approval mark including in the southeast lot of irregularities in the mayoral races in istanbul and then fact the assemble wanted to be rerun and of course the imola the current mayor who is potentially maybe a successor to earn one eventually seems to be quite successful as mayor so far which is going to anyone in airlines doing everything. It can to make art for a memo to be successful. I think it's gonna be a long road ho to get him out of office unless natural causes somehow takes him and he's i think now casting about. He cashiered feared his son-in-law in part because there was so much uproar over the loss of foreign exchange reserves to support the lira foolishly that he resigned. I think that was sort of to spare him so they can bring him back. Because i can't imagine airline would find any other successor. He could live with visit part of the problem as saying resumes. You need somebody who's loyalty. You can be sure you said earlier conversation that you sure to pass amidst and the long-term optimists i think we've spent a lot of time covering the reasons for short term pessimism leaves us with some of the reasons why you retain your long-term optimism well about the united states of america retained long-term optimism because we are very resilient society that's been through enormous upheavals in the past and always managed to come out veteran stronger whether it was the civil war the eighteen sixties or the great depression or the aftermath of the vietnam war. We've always managed to come out of terrible nominates in our history and gone on to succeed in do many good things. So i'm counting on that resilience I think as a free society we remain one of the most innovative societies in the world in the ones that's most open to innovation that's put at the forefront of technology. I do think we have a challenge now from china because of china's effort so-called civil-military fusion to try and harness future technologies particular for military purposes. Like a i in quantum computing. And things like that putting enormous investments into this. I think we may have to rethink some of our traditional more hands off approach is i think they may have to contemplate some kind of industrial policy. That in the past. I personally would have probably opposed but i'm still fairly bullish on us. You know long term but we have you some pretty serious challenges so is similar reasons to be a long-term optimus state of democracy in the world. I'm a long-term oke missed about democracy in the world. Because.
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"Think we've got to be much stronger on this than we have been. You know biden has a meeting coming up on the margins of the nato summit which will be before the putin summit with Type the president of turkey. And i hope he raises several cases of human rights issues. Certainly osman coppola but also selahattin demer tosh the head of the kurdish party. Adp in turkey. I that those will be at the forefront of the discussion with air on whatever other issues they need to discuss in there. Obviously several that i think ought to be at the forefront. I don't think it's by accident as i might have said in an earlier part my career. When always soviet policies that the nato meeting on wednesday that issued a statement about lukashenko it was the turkish government that tried to water down the statement. And we don't know why. The turkish government did that but my supposition would be that aired himself This is an interesting precedent. I might be able to use that there a lot of flights that. Go over turkish airspace. And so this is one reason why i. We really have to try and take stronger action at. It's one of those places where i've been mocked by some people carrying about nunes and democratic norms and the way in which the ridicules sometimes goes Really cab on the norm of how you hold your focus naive democratic norms similar bullpen. Of just good manners When justice at stake who casts about good manners. But i think that's media misunderstanding of the nature venetian importance norms in but democrats round but also he international realm. I mean making sure it'd be norm that you don't commit piracy is maintained really guarantees that it can be on a plane without warring Either you haven't dissident happens to be a distant on board. You suddenly falls down by a military jet to land in some other location business. Key example of why the maintenance of norms is not you know. please don't put the full. Can your right hand knife. Your left hand. It is the maintenance of our ability to cooperate internationally domestically in ridicule ways. You mentioned talking adeline ambassador kentucky relatively early in add-ons rule. I'm intrigued by how you see the trajectory of the adwan regime in the early two thousands when you ambassador bad though is a very lively debate about whether to see adeane as democratizing as somebody who is taking on some of the ways in which tokyo's visine wasn't in fact exclusionary to devout muslims some ways in which it was sort of an illiberal secularist regime and the people who saw him as a danger ibis before town or how. How'd you see sort of twenty trajectory of turkey. And what can we by re examining those debates. When i arrived ambassador in two thousand. Three the occupa- the justice and development party had been in office for about a year. And i happen to participate in president bush's meeting in december of two thousand two with air on when he was not yet prime minister he was still under a political band at that point and only later the ban was lifted. He was elected to parliament and became prime minister but in that meeting he made a point of telling president bush that he was a islamic democrat and in essence depicted himself as a muslim equivalent of a european christian democrat and essentially said you know i wanna create space in turkey for those pious muslims. Who has sort of as you said been somewhat excluded kemalists dispensation and as you can imagine in a period of time when we were already at war in afghanistan about to go to war in iraq and dealing with the entire panoply of jihadist terrorist adversaries and understanding that the war on terror as we called it in those days was more than a military enterprise. It really was about a debate. Inside islam about islam's accommodation to modernity and that we needed people like what i was describing in order to in the long run prevail against these salafi jihadist influences sloman which are quite strong. It was a convincing sales very sales pitch end. Of course there was motivated bias on the part of all of us right. This was like manna from heaven. You're the ones we've been looking for. Thank god you're here. The a p looked like moderate muslims from central casting for those who were looking for people to take up that part of the debate in the muslim world. And i would say for the first year or so of my tenure up until december of two thousand four which was when the european council formerly agreed to reopen the accession process for turkey to the european union and to begin the process of negotiating the various chapters of twenty nine or something of the aki communitaire. That would allow turkey ultimately someday. Everyone knew it was gonna be a long term process to accede to the european union. And erdo wanna knows days was extremely good about saying you know the eu as we must meet the copenhagen criteria. But we're to rename them. The entre criteria because even if there weren't at european union you know we'd want to be doing these things ourselves. It actually took an enormous effort at that december brussels summit to get iran to take. Yes for an answer to my surprise. I mean i was in touch with the then director. General of the turkish foreign ministry though senior civil servant who was in air doan sweet. I was on a cell phone with him constantly might british counterpart whom you may know. Peter west mccaw. Who was later ambassador here in. The united states was in brussels with tony blair in air. John sweet jock. Chirac was in the suite trying to sweet talk air. John was gerhard schroeder who was then chancellor and the point is that add-on actually didn't want the accession process to be reopened to what was the so. It's very interesting first of all. This has been a big ongoing. us interest. I think through eleven presidential administrations going back to nineteen sixty three when turkey. I applied for membership in the then european economic community. And so to me. This was one of the most important elements of our mission in turkey. Which is why. I was working on this issue. Mean we're not members of the eu all week to do is use our influence with the eu. And then try use our influence with the turks to take yes for an answer air. John was offended by some of the conditionality that was attached to the invitation for so he said and when he ultimately agreed but came back to turkey in december of four and gave the sour speech. I mean this should have been in my view. An occasion for turkish governments for forty years have been trying to accomplish this. I finally achieved it. This is a great day for turkey goes on and on and on instead it was all about. They think they're gonna make us do this with the kurds. And make up with the armenians. And that we're gonna live with these limitations on labor mobility. That was one of the things that was in there. That really galled him. It was a very very sour speech and from me. Personally i date a lot of what's happened since to that stage but you feel that. This was a turning point. That was science that have been missed. The on there were already some earlier signs..
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"republican party." Discussed on The Good Fight
"Flare. the is and it's very hard to recognize the perspective of somebody who disdains him. But that's both a sense of humor. A kind of alaska atmosphere and oddly joyous nece in his public persona is of bitterness and anger as well but but the is a sense of sort of the fund the joy of challenging the structures that be having one of the things that's missing and his imitators bat. it's sort of all of the nastiness without the sort of joy that he gives his supporters even as he ripe horrifies everybody else his rallies to me you're like you know professional wrestling event and it's not an accident because he comes from that kind of world of entertainment and has participated in a lot of world wrestling events. And so he's the perfect. He'll who fans still adore and that's halt trope in american professional wrestling and another podcast earlier. This year. I said you know there's no amount of pork rinds. That are gonna turn ted cruz. You know who went to princeton and harvard or josh foley who went to stanford and yale into authentic populace they themselves are elitists who are masquerading as populace. So i do think it makes a difference whether trump actually runs again in right. Now it's looking to me like he will run and so a lot will depend on legal system. Does he get indicted. How tied up in litigation as he in defending both criminal and civil cases and you know does that cause him to trim sale somewhat or not but if he runs you know the polling suggests he'll be formidable he'll win the nation wide you think about this prospects in general election and does bad depend on his sons in his appeal or does that depend in part on. The food is opponent with joe biden. Oh somebody else. And how many successes democrats have shown themselves will help me. Mistakes ago to make the news. Yeah what my fear is. Is that by twenty four There might be about inflation that could be very damaging president biden's prospects reelection or cameras man. I think effectively. it's either gonna be biden's harris. I don't think there's much chance at another democrat would emerge. If biden doesn't mind. It would be incredibly hot for anybody to win a primary election against come in the house. I agree and so. I've been having this debate with my son. Actually who's twenty seven and using i. It doesn't matter. And i said no. You only think that because you've never actually lived through a period of inflation and we've had very low inflation in the united states for forty years and it can be extremely corrosive. I think would be very corrosive that i would be very concerned about. Trump's chances right now. His polling nationally doesn't look very good minutes being like sixty six percent saying they don't want him to run again nationally not republicans obviously but a lot can change and when you're governing. You're alienating voters that's just the nature of the beast so my concern is it's not even whether trump could win the popular vote. I think he would almost certainly lose it but the question is by how much in in what states i mean that's one thing we've seen. Republicans ought to be very concerned by the fact that they haven't won the popular vote for president since nineteen eighty eight saved once in two thousand four when george w bush was reelected and then it was still pretty close. Think he went by three million votes. That's remarkable is somehow hadn't folded on the fact that they haven't won the popular would since nineteen eighty. Eight will be exception of two thousand four. That's remarkable about politics. I want to shift a little bit to some of the stakes for democracy. The united states around the world one thing. I'm still struggling to make sense of this. How much damage. Donald trump did ultimately do to democracy around the world. I think his actions were horrifying. The fact that he was clearly on the side of overtime popular psychic all bond in hungary is very close to render promoting india was damaging the certain circumstantial evidence bet democracy has been impacted by now the deepest democratic recession. Twenty twenty was worse than be as before. But i guess how much at this point doesn't matter who. The president of the united states is full. The fate of democracy around the world and how different would was four or five years have looked in countries like hungary like india or for that matter in turkey. We will embassador in the past. If we'd ended up with president clinton in two thousand sixteen so interesting counterfactual. I've not quite sure whether it would or wouldn't have been very different. I mean i think one thing would have been different. Which is there would have been at least somewhat. More of an emphasis on both uman rights violations in places will certainly like turkey but also more support in general for the rule of law and for institutions like central european university. A place like hungary which played an important role not just in hungary but in central europe more. Broadly is i think there would have been certainly some differences whether those differences would have only been marginal or whether they would have amounted to something that changed the trajectory of the democratic recession. As you were saying. I think is a much harder question to answer because i think the democratic recession is rooted in a lot of structural causes that it's not very easy for one president to reverse or change. I be interested in your reaction but to me this global democratic recession. There's some things that you and some of your co-authors of pointed to with regard to the general decline in appreciation globally of the importance of things like free speech and other formal elements of democracy. I'm not quite sure why that is. It may be the success of democracy which then gets taken for granted. I haven't been able to figure out how slain that. But i think there are other factors that run a little bit deeper. There are the unequal distribution of economic gains from globalization which is certainly occurred here in the united states but also in various other societies. It has fueled in some sense some understandable economic resentments. Although i think the economic resentments have not been the real driver of this. It's been more. I think the cultural elements here which have been brought to the fore by things like greater global immigration some of which has been brought about by in the eu different institutional changes were made to facilitate the at but also because of conflicts around the world and climate change which driven waves of immigration from sub saharan africa but also from conflict regions in the middle east from afghanistan all the.
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"republican party." Discussed on The Good Fight
"Who seemed to want this politics of grievance that seems to dominate today. I don't think that's dominant in the republican conference. For instance in either the senate or the house but there are unfortunately all too many members and both the house and senate who will maintain a judicious silence in the face of this vociferous element of the party which i would say probably is in the vicinity of maybe forty percent of republican voters. So it's not trivial. So i like to think of myself as not being illusions about how easy this will be and i think it will be a long struggle. I don't think it's going to get resolved in one election cycle or two election cycles. I do think it will be a decade at least before the party can exercise itself of these sources. I think in the first instance what has to happen. Is that republicans like liz. Cheney and adam. Kim zinger need to win their primaries and get reelected to office. There has to be a successful descent wing of the party upon which those of us who want to move past trumpism can build. That's not a given for both of them and others then. I think one of the things that probably has to happen is republicans have to go through some cycles. Losing elections to me one of the worst things would be if they go into the twenty two cycle and they win the house and the senate while denying that what happened on january. Six thousand insurrection against democracy and not really addressing the major issues in front of the country. But purely on. Dr seuss mr potato head and the other symbolic grievances issues. That performance of politics of grievance that. They've embraced if that's seen as a winning formula than it's going to make this process longer and harder to win. I mean the other possibility. I think is at some point. The party fractures men. And if you look at american political history which is something i actually in my misspent youth and graduate school spent a lot of time doing and have recently gone back to studying the eighteen forty to eighteen sixty period at which doesn't have a happy ending as you know you know it took about a decade for the whig party to fragment and the republican party and the democratic party to fragment into a free soil wing which then coalesced into the modern republican party that elected abraham lincoln the problem with that scenario which in some ways might be the most attractive scenario is that our policy is not as malleable as it was in the eighteen forties. Seventy years after the country was established. It's much more routinization bureaucratized. Now and the two parties really have a monopoly. On the political system as you said the obstacles and terms of ballot access et cetera are really considerable. But if it were to happen you would have to have. I think a large group of current republican officeholders. Who would want to break away and probably some on the democratic side as well who were concerned about some of the things i've mentioned earlier. The kind of joe manchin kristen cinema types who might then coalesce to create another party. But again i think there are considerable obstacles to that happening and i think it's less likely yeah. I think it's hard to prove that. Scenario one points favor perhaps that we've seen similar surprising transformations in other countries. I mean certainly parties with assistance proportional representation where two parties used to get eighty eighty five percents of the vote between them. Those are now down to fifty forty. Sometimes fifty percent of good between them and in a country like france which should be swiss presidential elections had a kind of two party system some more institutional way to get third candidate through. Because of second round run-off you had the rise of like minor mccollum who compete the obliterated traditional party system. So the some evidence that does something about fluidity of social media and visiting ideological realignments are going on at the moment. Did nothing but loss of sociological base off traditional political parties. But i suppose makes it seemed like a more realistic. Possibly ben would have been for much of american history. But i agree by remains very unlikely. The you know much more about this yashar than i do. And you've written so much about the democratic recession than some of these phenomena that we're talking about. I do know a little bit about france and a little bit about italy because i actually wrote my doctoral dissertation on. Us italian relations. So i have some outing with in politics but is it really the case in france. Let's just use that as an example that for the french the way they voted in the election was as much a part of their identity as it appears to be in polling in the united states. I mean if you look at some of the polling that pew has done over the last several years in which people say things like. I'd rather have my son or daughter. Marry someone from another religion than another political party that strikes me as somewhat different than my friends and colleagues in france who might have voted for the past but vote for macron now or someone who might have voted for christian democrats in italy but then voted for fourth italia berlusconi ran or something. It doesn't seem to me to be quite as much a part of identity in europe as it does appear to have become in the united states. I don't think it will always. I think that's a good question implicitly. point i guess i would save it. But it was a moment in european history. That was the case but bets went. Political pod is much much sociologically. Based so i think even in germany which is never as deeply divided society in the postwar era whether you voted for the social democrats christian democrats did come from deep set of identity. Marcus of whether you're walking class of bourgeois nod. We'll giftedness motown or a big town. Those extra collisions by always a little bit mecom than they seem Always for example Sort of liberal bourgeoisie. Who voted for democrats in those always. Conservative welker who voted for christian democrats. But nevertheless i think it was a deep question of identity back that is old eroded and of course i was in certain ways to true in the united states in the past. But if you're an irish on italian emmett would vote for. The democratic party is a medal of course. And if you sort so small businessman businessman in small town in america. You would republican party as a matter. Of course those realities have also dissolved. But you're right. That american politics is in the forefront of a reporter reservation where suddenly you have an equally strong even deeper loyalty to one political party but it is not based on the same kind of sociological. Took the same kind of class things as it was in poznan. I guess one of the questions as is this positive partisanship or negative partisanship. And perhaps a third party might have away in as if it was just hatred of yavapai. Perhaps it will verticals party if it's positive partnership as well if it's no. I actually have a deep density as a democrat progressive democrat. Who as a trump republican. Ben third party. Is that in the water so i don't know how you feel about that. That's an interesting question. It's probably needs some actual research as you were speaking. I was thinking of course. Communist party identity was very strong. That was not just a go to the ballotbox in cast a ballot. That was a lifestyle choice in a lot of ways. And that's why the french communist party was always regarded as a party not like the others because it was very much wrapped up in its own alternative culture really at all sorts of festivals that people went to and the same in italy infested looney taught. Which was you know when i started going to invalid. Ninety s still a big thing right so it's an interesting question because i can argue at round or flat. I suspect that at least for the trump kind of vote a lot of it is negative. Partisanship it's why you see so much of you know. The boning lives kind of performance stuff on social media along politicians. Like ted cruz and josh foley who are vying for the mantle of trumpism. I guess the thing that i think is it. Oh if trump really is ultimately removed and this is one reason why i really wish he had been successfully convicted in the second impeachment because that would have barred him from running for office. And i do worry now that there is a reasonable chance you might make some kind of comeback and we might want to talk about what happens if he does. Because i think the twenty four election if he's running in is going to be way more dangerous than twenty election for a whole variety of reasons. We can talk about but if he was excluded from it. I think that all of these wannabes for the most part in the republican party the people vying for the mantle of trumpism are not going to be able to pull it off. I mean i do think trump is sort of sui generous in that sense in part as much as i despise him. He actually has a stick and he makes it entertaining. None of ted cruz. Josh hawley might on peyot tom. Cotton none of these guys have.
The Good Fight
"republican party." Discussed on The Good Fight
"Extinguish practitioner in residence at philip merrill center for strategic studies he also has a distinguished career serving the american government as under secretary of defense for policy from two thousand five to two thousand nine as well as the amalgam bassett to finland turkey before that a proud in outspoken never-trumper. He has done a lot to raise awareness to the dangers of donald trump from early in trump's political career and we had a broad range in conversation about the state of the republican party dangerous to american democracy but also what countries can do to push back against the democratic recession to hope but countries like toki which he knows so well may one day become democratic again. Eric adam unwelcomed. Podcast thank you. It's great to be with you this morning. So with colleagues said size and women he had spit one of the things we've been doing courageously last year is to stand up to the current powers would be within the republican party to be one of the key voices of another trump movement in ways but movement should feel more upbeat now. Don't trump is no longer the commander in chief he's along. The white house was all excellent things. I think we should remember in a political moment can feel a little bit dark. How much daca things could be right now but on the other hand i imagine you're probably less infused now about the state of republican party event. Even last year's where do you think the hope was saying. Republican party stands in spring of twenty twenty one. If you'll allow me let me back up. A i second that address. The question that i think in some sense underlies the line of inquiry were opening which is why is it important to have a same republican party and their. I think it's very important for people to understand that we have a two party system and having both of those parties committed to democracy in an era in which globally. We've seen a rise of authoritarian populism radical ethno-nationalism around the world for the united states. It is important that both parties be responsible and capable of alternating governance. It is given the very narrow margin in a house of representatives and given the traditions of american politics that the presidential out party gain seats in the off year elections and given the fact that this year were in a post census. So we're going to have reapportionment and then redistricting. It is very likely that the republican party will take back the house of representatives at least and perhaps senate as well though the map is a little less favorable to republicans in the senate and in my view is just essential. That that party be committed to democracy. I think a lot of us hoped that with the departure of donald trump from office that the party would begin to repair itself and would look for off-ramps to get out from under the thrall of donald trump but unfortunately that has not happened and of course particularly after january six. I think people hope that that would provide a huge offering him floor. Republicans been certainly in the congress most of whom privately detest trump excoriate him in private conversations to take advantage of the opportunity to break away from him and unfortunately that has not happened. In fact the reverse. I think he's tightening his hold on the party. In many ways by nature a short-term pessimists on a long-term optimist i was taught to be that by my grandfather who fled the bolsheviks in nineteen nineteen and then fled the nazis in nineteen forty and so he taught me to be a short-term pessimists but a long-term optimus so i grasped for any signs of optimism that i can find and certainly a growth in the number of republicans who voted for the january six commission in the house. But even as we're coming on the air today. Republicans in the senate failed to come through black debate on the generous commission in the senate which i think effectively kills it at least for the moment hopeful. We'll have some other mechanism of thorough investigation of what happened on january six. But you know that's a less hopeful sign. It seems to me speaking to the need. For a republican party in principle it could be a different political party is a world in which republican party is eclipsed by different insane conservative party i think the institutions obstacles to a high. The fundamental need for would simply. But there's a lot of right of center. Americans and always will be unveiled capable of winning election some time and so even if you i imagine. Continue the south right out of santa Left of but even those of us who are left of center we need the political organization but represents those of our compatriots will right of center to be committed to decency into democratic values because sometimes being power. And i think when people don't even need for that it's often because they have some fury in their mind about how right-of-centre americans are going to die out either because yang oil left which is not true or because minorities are all left-leaning grown as a both nova population that story is not nydia straightforward as. It seems that seems to be the fundamental case. I agree but intermittent yasha. I'd add one other thing. Which i try to remind my friends on the other side of the aisle trio. Which is it's great sport for some of them to look at the auto-da-fe that is the republican party today and to say look at what a disaster. It is their issues in the democratic party as well. And but i don't mean to say that right now. The crisis in the two parties are the same or their equivalent. They're not what's going on in. Republican party is much more dangerous much more serious but there are elements of the progressive left of the democratic party who also harbor certain kinds of anti democratic populist sentiments that i think are intentionally also very dangerous for democracies and persuasion of course has done a great job i think in providing flora more people who believe in democratic values on both sides of the aisle can have these kinds of discussions. And it's important. I think for people in the centre-left n. Senate right both the be taking their responsibilities to police their own homes as it were and to try and tamp down these unhealthy anti-democratic elements. What would the optimistic scenario look like. For the republican party afford different right-of-center political party to come in is the anti-democratic nature of a trump regime so driven by the grass roots. That it is just likely to prevail for the next twenty years or could it be that the ride charismatic for that candidate in twenty twenty. Four twenty twenty eight recap just not probably not being anti-trump probably not being one of the people who most courageously have criticized trump bid somebody who just officer different kind of vision of what the republican party might be semi told me about twenty thirty. Some of these warriors of republican party have subsided. I guess this scenario would paint in my mind would be that someone came along who managed to recipe back not by being the most full fred critic of trump but by moving beyond trump by having their own sort of vision of what the republican party should be in between twenty twenty thirty s. What that would look like and how realistic a path is that. It was a different path that you fingers more realistic i. I think i start from the proposition that it may not be possible to save the republican party from its current self and that's in part because of factor that you raised which is the very strong numbers of folks in the republican base..
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"republican party." Discussed on Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"Of the statue of liberty signed a build a everyone from the country now when three legal is last feast was a beautiful old immigration and now an anti immigrant party. It's not just league immigrant party. And i don't think there's any future twice. I had friends michael steele the republican party. He his attitude which i greatly respect this look. I'm not going. Let donald trump out of the party. I've been in this party forty years. I'm more republican than he is. I'm gonna fight. I really respect. But it's not where i am. I don't think it's worth fighting for personal and you know i worked democrats if they'll have me I think what's going to happen with. Republican party is what happened nationalist. What happened in california long ago. The republican party the beating heart of the republican party was california electoral citadels nelson third place even part of being replaces. You're really not relevant to any major public policy decisions. I mean what's republican party. Does california just really a no consequence. Now and i say why don't we have a third everything. We do have to three parties. There's to the democratic party. And i think that the future for is going to be decided by that battle within the democratic party you take like healthcare. We really ten years. Twenty years could be. The only country doesn't western democracy. That doesn't have if still a western democracy doesn't have national health insurance job imaginable. Of course not what. He's going to be decided by the democratic party. Republican parties just can and become increasingly irrelevant. This podcast is.
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"republican party." Discussed on Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"Jonathan cape part in. This is cape up. The republican party is still in thrall to donald trump. A man who turned generations of the party's stances on its head in one presidential term for stuart. Stevens rock ribbed republican who has helped to elect republicans at all levels of government including president of the united states. This led to some soul searching. The result is his book. it was all a lie. how the republican party became donald trump. This conversation with stevens is from last september but everything we talked about especially the ugly role. The republican party is still relevant. Today you can hear it. All right now stewart stevens. Thank you.
The Michael Berry Show
"republican party." Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
"Of president trump's speech at cpac over the weekend he is still the leader of the republican party. And that's not changing until he decides that he's done and so i think what you what you hear. Here are the themes central to the most active and influential portion of the republican party. The democrats know their policies on crime are so unpopular so radical so crazy. They are now trying to pretend they never lead defend the police movement in the first place this information we never set the fund. The place you know who did it. The republicans that that's what they do. It's called disinformation about russia. Trump had to do with russia. He loves russia. He loves padi loves. Everybody turned out to be the democrats right after two years. They figured g and after a while people actually believe this stuff but now they're saying defunding the police we didn't say it was the republicans called this. You have to be wise to. It's very simple. If you support defunding. The police vote for the radical left. Democrats and you see what's happening to the cities where they defended. The police is never been anything like it. If you want more police and more cops on the streets vote for america first republicans or let's put it very simply vote for maga- make america. Great again mega. Mega mega mega. The.
The Michael Berry Show
"republican party." Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
"Been trump you see. Everybody is literally hitler who is a republican to the democrats. It doesn't make him hit all right. We'll share the president's speech or at least a part of it coming up. Got some great interviews for you. Good show today in the michael berry. Donald trump reminded america that he is still the leader of the republican party. He spoke at cpac over the weekend and garnered seventy percent of the votes of the attendees to santa scott. One no one else got more than one percent. I thought we should share with you. The comments of the president. So we're going to spend two. Maybe three.
The Rubin Report
"republican party." Discussed on The Rubin Report
"He's a guy from queens who works with a lot of working class people construction workers sales people and so forth and so he's always identified with those folks at a deep emotional level and they've identified with him. You know donald trump is up there. I certainly think my you know my my attitude towards politics is like a working class or a blue collar. conservatism. There are other people out there. Jim banks is a really interesting guy. Representative from indiana. I think tucker carlson talk about another guy who sort of you know an east coast wasp in the classic sense. But i think identifies with blue collar. Folks in a very deep way obviously focuses a lot on limited show. So i i think they're like she a lot of us out there who think the purpose of the republican party should be to better serve its voters But but i think they're all on the right at this point. I mean there were maybe a couple of blue dog democrats. Even five years ago they all got primary the all effectively kicked out of the party and it just clearly not welcome there anymore. So if the exists at all they're they're sort of our side of the aisle. Yeah i mean. That's what i've been saying. I know a few of these people. And i think it's kind of a worthy fight if you wanna still say you're a democrat and try to do something as the houses burned down but it just doesn't seem like it could work to me are you. Are you surprised how radical the left has gone that. There is no room for these people. I mean i guess someone running for senate now. You're kind of excited. It's like yeah. I'm over here. We're all right. I'm definitely surprised at a little startled. By how crazy the left has gone over the last ten years. I mean in part. This is a consequence of demographics. Right the left is basically the party of upper middle class and upper class elites in then some working class minorities who are sort of still along for the ride on the democratic party..