I don’t know why some think the Republicans must move to the centre. We are talking about a party that lost the Presidency by a couple percent against a popular President and controlled the House. They need a few marginal changes to get away from the evangelical nonsense, but the party could win by just getting out more vote in their traditional voting blocks. If the Republicans came in at 30% of the vote or something, then yeah, deep soul searching might be needed. But that’s not what is happening.
I think you are quite mistakenhere . Trump is not a centrist, his views are most closely aligned with the European new right, and not any kind of centrism. Rubio is a centrist. Hillary is a centrist. Bush is a centrist.
What’s more likely is that what is defined as “conservative” is changing, not a movement to the center. For years, conservatism involved three legs:free markets, social conservatism, and a strong military. Voters now have differing opinions on the first two things, but it is not moderation.
still after this event the Ottoman Islamic civilization flourished for several hundred of years. The decline started in the late 1800s when the Caliphate was ruled by Sultan Trump Jr (or whatever his name was)
In the first 400 years, they acted as a cultural hub. They embraced the cultural centers in Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Bukhara, … etc. They contributed in the advancement of Muslim societies. They helped in exporting science, math, and literature to Europe and in importing Feta cheese from Greece. However, strarting in the 1840’s, a Turk inferiority complex was growing (has something to do with di#k size?). They started promoting the supremacy of the Turk race. They started abusing and torturing Arabs, Kurds, Persians, and Europeans. They pulled Romanian impaling spears from their asses, and started practicing this brutal torture on the Arabs of the Levant.
Trump is a common sense candidate. If you cut through the sensationalism and listen to everything he says. Not just the sound bites that drive news media ratings, his positions are grounded in common sense. I don’t believe he is a demagogue. He is a common sense fiscal conservative and couldn’t care less about engineering a social policy other than to swing the pendulum back away from the leftist moon bats that have taken political correctness to scary levels.
I think you are letting the shared love of real estate blind you buddy. I don’t think Trump would be as bad a president as one would assume he’d be from watching how he acts, but I thought the VOX article nailed it and it has nothing to do with Trump being a common sense candidate. If you hadn’t read it (warning its like 60 pages) , http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism
I thought republicans wanted freedom and small government? But empirical data says they want an authoritarian strongman who praises Putin and the guys who carried out the Tianamen Square massacre? Who knew?
Maybe this Trump = Hitler thing is not so off-kilter.
i couldn’t get past the bold faced lie in the first paragraph - the one where they link to the times article citing the South Carolina poll that they completely distort, on purpose of course to create their narrative. This kind of stuff only emboldens trump supporters.
The demographics are changing to the point where women and visible minorities are the fastest growing electorate. All the Democrats have to do to win Presidential elections these days is to win one of Ohio, Pennsylvania or Florida. The Republicans have no margin of error. You need 270 EC to win an election and the Democrats start off with 250.
wake up people. the left wing/media narrative is conflating the issues, on purpose of course. they are masterfully equating basic protection of rights and rejection of the moocher/victim society as outright racism and authoritarianism.
ironically it was Cruz who correctly pointed out that the protestors and agitators this weekend were not within their rights to disrupt those events. I wish trump made that point.