Donald Trump is blowing up conservatism
9 years, 1 month ago

Donald Trump is blowing up conservatism

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Timothy Stanley, a conservative, is a historian and columnist for Britain’s Daily Telegraph. Story highlights Timothy Stanley says time is running out for conservatives to come up with a strategy to defeat a man at odds with their philosophy He says Rubio is starting to look like the only real alternative, even though he's lost primaries CNN — Who does Donald Trump have to insult to lose a primary? While the Democrats settled for Hillary in Nevada, the Republicans narrowed the contest down to the brash Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz – so at least one party is moving on from the 1990s. He did well among evangelicals and/or those described as “very conservative” – but to be in third place with 99% of the vote counted in a Southern, deeply religious state like this is devastating. It might seem a little absurd to pour all of one’s hopes into a candidate who hasn’t even won anything yet, but in these odd times, Rubio is starting to look like the only real alternative to Donald Trump.

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'He can't resist chaos': Critics reject 'wishful thinking' about Trump's second term
3 months, 4 weeks ago

'He can't resist chaos': Critics reject 'wishful thinking' about Trump's second term

Raw Story  

Donald Trump has nominated a Cabinet full of loyalists with questionable qualifications, but his critics predict they'll quickly become consumed by chaos and infighting. "Regardless of whatever individual ideological leanings these people have had at varying points in their adult lives, it’s largely irrelevant because the only litmus test we have seen put forward is absolute fealty to Donald Trump," …

The return of Donald Trump — do we know what it means?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

The return of Donald Trump — do we know what it means?

ABC  

“Donald Trump is no longer an aberration; he is normative.” Such is the assessment of Peter Wehner — a Republican strategist and former adviser to President George W. Bush, and an outspoken critic of Trump himself — in the aftermath of the former president’s thundering re-election victory. Perhaps most obviously, his victory relegates the Biden presidency to a kind of …

How Donald Trump could still be winning—and what that says about America.
4 months, 4 weeks ago

How Donald Trump could still be winning—and what that says about America.

Slate  

This is the third time Donald Trump has run for president as a major-party candidate, and yet, this cycle, the American electorate and the American press seem unable to fully comprehend the choice we are facing. Democrats in particular suffer from this neurosis; they are regularly surprised and outraged with each new iteration of Trump’s lies and cruelty, reacting not …

Donald Trump's rebranding of American diversity is gaining traction
6 months ago

Donald Trump's rebranding of American diversity is gaining traction

Salon  

The color line runs straight through every aspect of American society. The most recent and very bold move in Trump and his campaign’s white supremacist political campaign against Kamala Harris and the Democrats is the conspiratorial lie that Black Haitian immigrants are killing and eating white people’s dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. New polling research from CBS News/YouGov further …

'Toxic at the ballot box': Conservative shows why 'Trump is in for a major defeat'
1 year ago

'Toxic at the ballot box': Conservative shows why 'Trump is in for a major defeat'

Raw Story  

Donald Trump went from being one of the unlikeliest of American presidents to having a firm grip on the Republican Party, its leadership, and its most extreme members despite his long history of failure at the ballot box in regards to his handpicked candidates. The GOP will come to regret those failures when Trump loses in 2024, according to conservative …

Trump has 'far more to lose' as 'unforced gaffes' indicate mental decline: report
1 year, 4 months ago

Trump has 'far more to lose' as 'unforced gaffes' indicate mental decline: report

Raw Story  

Plans by the Republican Party to make President Joe Biden's age a central theme of the 2024 presidential campaign could be heading for a speedbump as presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump stumbles through speeches — raising questions about his mental decline. And it’s sad to see.” As the Times notes, Trump is just three years younger than President Biden, and …

Wake up, MSM: Donald Trump's comeback is not funny
2 years, 4 months ago

Wake up, MSM: Donald Trump's comeback is not funny

Salon  

Serious, chronic illness is not funny. Both explicitly and through the use of stochastic terrorism, Donald Trump and his propagandists have incited violence against Black and brown people, liberals and progressives, LGBTQ people, Muslims, Jewish people and others deemed to be less than a "real American." In a post on his Truth Social site a few weeks earlier, Trump even …

With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the presidency could be steeper than he'd like
2 years, 4 months ago

With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the presidency could be steeper than he'd like

NPR  

With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the presidency could be steeper than he'd like Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Andrew Harnik/AP Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, announced he is running again for president …

Donald Trump in firm control of Republican Party, remains frontrunner for 2024
2 years, 5 months ago

Donald Trump in firm control of Republican Party, remains frontrunner for 2024

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 20, 2022 10:25 IST Despite all that has happened in the past two years following his drubbing at the polls, Donald Trump remains the frontrunner in the presidential sweepstakes of 2024 with the Republican Party firmly in his control. A recent poll revealed that more than 70 per cent of Republicans actually believe that the Democrats “stole” …

Here's how Trump could ruin the GOP's 'electoral layup' in 2022 — and blow the midterms
2 years, 11 months ago

Here's how Trump could ruin the GOP's 'electoral layup' in 2022 — and blow the midterms

Raw Story  

Republicans are widely believed to be favorites to win at least one chamber of Congress in the fall, between President Joe Biden's struggling approval ratings and the historical trends of the opposition party gaining seats in midterm years weighed against Democrats' already razor-thin margins in the House and Senate. But on Wednesday, POLITICO Playbook outlined an ongoing risk for Republicans …

Trump at CPAC 2021: Ex-president to taunt his enemies and underscore commitment to leading Republican party
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump at CPAC 2021: Ex-president to taunt his enemies and underscore commitment to leading Republican party

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We are gathered this afternoon to talk about the future — the future of …

Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party | Opinion
4 years, 4 months ago

Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

Donald Trump upturned the political applecart in 2016 by assembling a coalition of anger. In addition, the Republican Party is using every administrative trick to put up obstacles to Democratic voters and counting on a Right-tilting Supreme Court to wink at them. The many anti-Trump Republican groups, like the Lincoln Project, and so many traditional conservatives have endorsed Biden The …

Analysis: In President Trump’s wake, divisions mark both Democratic and Republican parties
7 years, 9 months ago

Analysis: In President Trump’s wake, divisions mark both Democratic and Republican parties

LA Times  

Democrats and Republicans alike are divided over Trump these days. “It would be hard to say that Donald Trump isn’t the Republican Party,” said Ron Ferrance, GOP county chairman in Luzerne County in northeast Pennsylvania, which voted for President Obama in 2012 and flipped to Trump last November. “The Democratic Party, especially the presidential campaign, lost its core economic message …

Conservatism turned toxic: Donald Trump's fanbase has no actual ideology, just a nihilistic hatred of liberals
8 years, 3 months ago

Conservatism turned toxic: Donald Trump's fanbase has no actual ideology, just a nihilistic hatred of liberals

Salon  

The horror show that was the 2016 election will be examined and reexamined for years, and depending on how bad things get, quite likely decades to come. But it's also important to notice that Donald Trump's election is the culmination of decades of right-wing media teaching its audience that liberals are subhuman scum, and that hating liberals — whatever their …

US election: Donald Trump leads grassroots crusade against America's 'rigged' system
8 years, 4 months ago

US election: Donald Trump leads grassroots crusade against America's 'rigged' system

ABC  

Three coal miners coming off shift at the Mountain Laurel mine in West Virginia sat at a long office bench doing time sheets, their faces and hands smeared black from their work. Former Republican speaker Newt Gingrich said Mr Trump had led a hostile takeover of the Republican Party by becoming the figurehead of a grassroots revolt. As he blitzed …

'Nasty, witless and deceptive': Donald Trump gets slammed in post-debate analysis
8 years, 6 months ago

'Nasty, witless and deceptive': Donald Trump gets slammed in post-debate analysis

Firstpost  

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump traded insults and sparred over temperament, stamina and judgement Monday, in a fiery US presidential debate that often saw the Republican on the back foot. Sounds good, doesn’t work.” The 70-year-old Trump has faced tough questions about his temperament during a deeply polarizing 15-month campaign that has brought rightwing populism to the American political mainstream. …

Donald Trump presidential candidature: Trumping the odds
8 years, 8 months ago

Donald Trump presidential candidature: Trumping the odds

The Hindu  

>Donald Trump is the Republican Party nominee for the November presidential election. It has also caused a ripple of consternation among his detractors within the Grand Old Party and his Democratic opponents, many among who are possibly still in a state of disbelief that the real estate mogul trounced as many as 16 rivals and scored resounding primaries victories in …

Once a political outsider, now a Republican nominee: Here is Donald Trump's journey
8 years, 10 months ago

Once a political outsider, now a Republican nominee: Here is Donald Trump's journey

Firstpost  

Republican front-runner Donald Trump went from long-shot contender to become the party’s presumptive nominee on Tuesday with a commanding win in Indiana, and the party began to coalesce around him as top rival Ted Cruz bowed out of the race. At his victory rally at Trump Tower in New York, Trump walked on stage with wife Melania and other family …

Donald Trump Versus the Rest: Republican Race Turns Nasty
9 years ago

Donald Trump Versus the Rest: Republican Race Turns Nasty

India TV News  

Washington: With Donald Trump emerging as the undisputed front-runner in the presidential nomination race, the Republican establishment mounted a concerted attack on the brash billionaire on and off stage only to have the tables turned on them. The debate began with the anchors bringing up Romney's sharp condemnation of Trump earlier Thursday calling him "a phony, a fraud" in a …

Trump leads Republican race, but rival candidates continue to hang on
9 years ago

Trump leads Republican race, but rival candidates continue to hang on

China Daily  

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is leading the race to the Republican nomination for the US presidential election, but several other candidates continue to hold on in a show of grit and determination, in a last-ditch effort to try to derail the bombastic billionaire. Despite losing most states to Trump in Tuesday's contest, Rubio continues to attack Trump, saying on Tuesday …

Analysis: Trump fends off debate mockery, trips on specifics. Will his supporters care?
9 years ago

Analysis: Trump fends off debate mockery, trips on specifics. Will his supporters care?

LA Times  

His challengers should know by now that they can’t beat Donald Trump at mockery, although Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tried anyway in Thursday’s two-hour presidential debate. Rubio, why don’t you let him finish?” Cruz treated Trump like an errant child — ironically, after calling Trump and Rubio “bickering schoolchildren.” “Donald, please, I know it’s hard …

Republican Party would love to see Trump fall
9 years, 1 month ago

Republican Party would love to see Trump fall

Al Jazeera  

Loyalty of party’s establishment does not extend to Donald Trump after front runner called George W Bush a “liar”. ‘Xenophobic’ Trump That would mean, at that time, he was prepared to give his support to someone he described as a “race baiting, xenophobic bigot”. South Carolina contest The establishment of the Republican Party would love to see Trump fall. This …

AP Conversation: Bush sees conservatism at stake in ’16
9 years, 2 months ago

AP Conversation: Bush sees conservatism at stake in ’16

Associated Press  

CORALVILLE, Iowa — Jeb Bush says he misjudged the intensity of anger among Republican voters before his White House campaign and believes the country in 2016 is “dramatically different” than in past elections. Not just in talk shows and think-tanks and wherever conservatism is talked about in all sorts of different ways, but in governing.” Bush’s vow to champion conservative …

Of Trump’s gaffes & Republican agony
9 years, 3 months ago

Of Trump’s gaffes & Republican agony

Deccan Chronicle  

American presidential election campaigns are extravaganzas in which rhetoric reigns over reality while candidates survey their kitty before deciding whether they should throw in the towel. More than Mr Trump’s own personality, the adulation Republican voters seem to have for him is an expression of the American state of mind and feelings. President Barack Obama’s assurances to his countrymen and …

Donald Trump, for good of U.S., get out of race (Opinion)
9 years, 3 months ago

Donald Trump, for good of U.S., get out of race (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jennifer Granholm is the former governor and former attorney general of Michigan. Story highlights Jennifer Granholm: Donald Trump's rhetoric is causing irreparable damage to United States Democracy doesn't need candidate who intentionally stokes jingoism, she says CNN — Dear Donald: Even though some say Hillary Clinton would benefit if you were to be the GOP nominee, for the …

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