Robert Reich Nails It: The GOP Is Dead And Has Fractured Into 6 Warring Tribes
Last Updated on February 16, 2016
"Robert Reich says the GOP has splintered into six different factions, and that’s a problem for us ALL
Watching the GOP primary race this season, you may have noticed that this primary is different from past primaries — it’s a complete unadulterated clusterfuck.
For starters, the Republicans onstage don’t at all sound like classic Republicans anymore; the right wing’s brand of common sense and measured speech has been replaced with pure fantasy rhetoric on war, the economy, social policies, being anti-government, and unbridled hatred for anything remotely Democratic or liberal. Those are the common themes, but when you get down to the nitty-gritty, there’s more going on onstage than that.
Economist and author, Robert Reich, recently penned a piece on his blog stating the Republican Party as we used to know it is dead.
Instead, the once thriving and successful party has now split into six smaller warring tribes. Reich says these tribes consist of:
“I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization.
“It died in 2016. RIP.”
Evangelicals opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and science.
Libertarians opposed to any government constraint on private behavior.
Market fundamentalists convinced the “free market” can do no wrong.
Corporate and Wall Street titans seeking bailouts, subsidies, special tax loopholes, and other forms of crony capitalism.
Billionaires craving even more of the nation’s wealth than they already own.
And white working-class Trumpoids who love Donald. and are becoming convinced the greatest threats to their wellbeing are Muslims, blacks, and Mexicans.
“Each of these tribes has its own separate political organization, its own distinct sources of campaign funding, its own unique ideology – and its own candidate. “
The death of the party has been most notably evidenced by right wing America’s favored candidate, Donald Trump. A billionaire who has never been a public servant, held office, or won an election, and has dominated this race by being a bully, playing on people’s racism and fears, and without giving a solitary specific on almost any issue except his tax policy. What the actual fuck?
And Trump may actually be the catalyst that sends this shitshow down in flames if he makes good on his threat to run as a third party candidate. He’ll take at least 1/3 of the GOP’s support away and guarantee a Democratic win, but why should he care? He’s only loyal to himself and his frothy-mouthed band of white nationalists and uneducated, politically ignorant blue collar workers who are blinded by his tax policy (which would put America trillions into debt within a decade) and his racist promises of mass deportation and keeping Muslims out of America.
For further evidence that the GOP is over, look at Ted Cruz’s success in this race, the Texas senator whose shining moment was shutting the government down for a few weeks which cost America billions of dollars unnecessarily and accomplished absolutely nothing. The senator who has no other Senate endorsements because he’s that abhorrent.
Or take Marco Rubio, who never shows up for his job in the Senate and has done nothing worth noting in that position other than join in on the opposition to everything Obama. But, hey ladies, he’ll force you to carry your rapist’s child, so that’s…something.
Or Ben Carson, who wasn’t even registered as a Republican until a few years ago and has about as much political experience as the scalpel he used to cut into brains. But he’ll go real hard on Hummus, so not to worry, America.
Reich continues:
“Without a Republican Party, nothing stands between us and a veritable Star Wars barroom of self-proclaimed wanna-be’s.
“Without a Party, anyone runs who’s able to raise (or already possesses) the requisite money – even if he happens to be a pathological narcissist who has never before held public office, even if he’s a knave detested by all his Republican colleagues.
“Without a Republican Party, it’s just us and them. And one of them could even become the next President of the United States. “
Reich is right, these losers have killed the Republican party from the inside out. And that’s a problem if one of them becomes our next President, but it’s looking like an even bigger problem for the party. The right wing seems to think that if they find a candidate who is the most conservative person on the face of the planet, they’ll win, yet the further right they go, the less they represent American values, and that’s a reality they are going to have to face sooner rather than later.
Because if one of them is elected President by some fluke, we ALL have to live with it."
