• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The GOP barely exists now, because of Trump. This used to be a soft power game, lots of behind the scene back room deals. Obama even said corruption under Trump was better than before him because it was public, and in my opinion being done by incompetent idiots where before it was private and being done by very smart and very ruthless men. All of the real GOP has been slowly pushed out since the tea party came to power, if Europe was serious they’d be pointing to the tea party not Trump but that’s neither here nor there. Now it’s just a bunch of obviously stupid obviously incapable corporate puppets clearly unable to keep up the illusion that keeps the money faucets running. The GOP died and what’s left is eating its self. The real issue here is how obviously weak our left wing is, it doesn’t matter if our Conservative Party implodes if our “liberal” party can’t constitute something meaningful and long lasting. We need money out of politics now or the right will rise from the ashes cloaked in back room deals and run by ruthless competent men again.

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      2 days ago

      I would say that Trump exists BECAUSE of the GOP.
      Reagan existed BECAUSE of the GOP.
      W Bush existed BECAUSE of the GOP.
      We are at the apex of the Republican utopia, purchased by the rich, for the rich, where anything goes IF you are rich and the managed dolts keep cheering it on.
      This is a minor disruption for the ruling elite. Nothing is going to change behind the scenes because really nothing has changed.