There’s only one word in this piece with which I disagree, and that word is “populist”. I literally wince every time I see the term used to describe the MAGA menace, as it is, IMHO, a word that has been stretched into meaninglessness by reporters and commentators seeking to avoid calling out fascists for what they are. There was nothing genuinely populist about how Trump governed, from his tax cuts for the wealthy to his billionare-ridden cabinet to his corporate-friendly judicial picks. To use the term to describe him merely reinforces and rewards his con, which is exactly what the press needs to stop doing immediately.
Mike Pence is a Reagan Republican in an Era of MAGA Trumplicans. He will forever be a Hero of the Constitutional Republic for his time as Vice President and President of the Senate.
I will confess I am a New Deal Democrat and oppose Reaganism but Vice President Pence choice of Country over ambition will always be an act of a true StatesPerson.
The GOP of Reaganism died in 2016 and with the expulsion of Cheney, Romney, Pence the funeral is near completion.
The Trump Republican Party (TRP) has finished replacing the GOP in 2023 with the election of Speaker Michael Johnson.
The next fifteen months are going to pivotal to the future of this great Country.
There’s only one word in this piece with which I disagree, and that word is “populist”. I literally wince every time I see the term used to describe the MAGA menace, as it is, IMHO, a word that has been stretched into meaninglessness by reporters and commentators seeking to avoid calling out fascists for what they are. There was nothing genuinely populist about how Trump governed, from his tax cuts for the wealthy to his billionare-ridden cabinet to his corporate-friendly judicial picks. To use the term to describe him merely reinforces and rewards his con, which is exactly what the press needs to stop doing immediately.
Marcy Wheeler put it this way, "The GOP is little more than a criminal protection racket to shelter one man, Donald Trump."
Mike Pence is a Reagan Republican in an Era of MAGA Trumplicans. He will forever be a Hero of the Constitutional Republic for his time as Vice President and President of the Senate.
I will confess I am a New Deal Democrat and oppose Reaganism but Vice President Pence choice of Country over ambition will always be an act of a true StatesPerson.
The GOP of Reaganism died in 2016 and with the expulsion of Cheney, Romney, Pence the funeral is near completion.
The Trump Republican Party (TRP) has finished replacing the GOP in 2023 with the election of Speaker Michael Johnson.
The next fifteen months are going to pivotal to the future of this great Country.