Republicans: “Delete Your Party”

August 10, 2016 JanF Editors' Choice, Election 2016 6

On August 10, 1988, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, aka “Restitution for World War II internment of Japanese-Americans and Aleuts Act”, was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. It was passed to acknowledge the awfulness of the Japanese-American internment and offer restitution to Americans rounded up and forced into camps during World War II.

One of its promises was to “discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil liberties in the future.”

Twenty-eight years later, the Party of Reagan aka the “the party built on the Southern Strategy and fueled by racial animus and hatred of The Other” has nominated a man who is fomenting a race war and proposing banning entire religions from our shores and our society.

The only way I can see to discourage this from happening again is clear:

Republicans, Delete Your Party

It really is time.

6 Comments

  1. The internment camps are a terrible blemish on our nation’s soul.

    I guess for Republicans, “never again” means “never again unless we can gain a political advantage”.

  2. The Dance of the Distancing Pundits …

    A half a Friedman Unit away from the election …

    People are playing with fire here, and there is no bigger flamethrower than Donald Trump. Forget politics; he is a disgusting human being. His children should be ashamed of him. I only pray that he is not simply defeated, but that he loses all 50 states so that the message goes out across the land — unambiguously, loud and clear: The likes of you should never come this way again.

    Joe Blow – Wow, who could have expected this!

    A bloody line has been crossed that cannot be ignored. At long last, Donald Trump has left the Republican Party few options but to act decisively and get this political train wreck off the tracks before something terrible happens.

  3. Charlie Pierce: They’re done …

    “It’s a gloriously floundering death for a politics that has done so much damage to the rest of the country. And, even with all that, none of them get it—that nearly four decades of conservative politics, and the techniques those politics used to attain and maintain power, made someone like He, Trump inevitable. They ate the monkeybrains long ago, and this is what happens when the prion disease reaches its terminal stage. You don’t even remember how you got so crazy in the first place.”

    [Donald Trump Is the GOP’s Disease in Its Terminal Stage]
    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47511/trump-2nd-amendment-reaction/

  4. Maybe this time the zombie Republican Party will finally die:

    “The historian Geoffrey Kabaservice, the author of Rule and Ruin, a history of moderate Republicans, says the GOP center didn’t feel true urgency about stopping Goldwater until he voted to oppose the landmark Civil Rights Act in June 1964. Like Trump’s critics today, Goldwater’s skeptics worried he was dangerously redefining the GOP as a party of racial backlash. “In a lot of ways it was a fight against Goldwater’s Southern strategy,” Kabaservice said. ”
    …
    “In 1964, the GOP’s deep fissures contributed to Johnson’s crushing victory. But ultimately the forces of Northeastern moderation that resisted Goldwater lost control of the party to the Sunbelt conservatives that elevated him. Ronald Reagan, softening some key elements, followed a Goldwater-like ideological and geographic path to victory 16 years later—but at the price of defining the GOP in ways that eventually alienated the Northeastern and West Coast states most skeptical of that agenda. Goldwater’s “Southern strategy” of courting white Dixie conservatives, later reinforced by Nixon and Reagan, also lastingly alienated African Americans.”
    …
    “Like Goldwater, Trump represents a breakthrough victory for a rising party faction, in his case working-class whites drawn to his racially barbed nationalism. And like those predecessors, Trump could also precipitate historic losses among voters his party had previously relied upon, like college-educated whites, or hoped to add, like Hispanics and other minorities.”

    [Just Like Barry Goldwater, Donald Trump’s Candidacy Will Have a Lasting Effect on the GOP – The Atlantic]
    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/what-will-the-trump-aftershock-look-like/495359/

  5. Wheels coming off:

    “[Trump’]s tough bravado diminishes as the criticism he’s being dealt cuts through his paper-thin skin and hits home.”
    …
    “More than three weeks after Trump accepted the Republican nomination, he continues to shows his a** and makes even bigger a**es out of the Republican Party for assuming a former reality TV star meets the requirements to run  for the oval office.”

    [TIME Magazine Releases Stunning Anti-Trump Cover Image, Campaign Is PISSED! (DETAILS)]
    http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/08/11/time-magazine-releases-stunning-anti-trump-cover-image-campaign-is-pissed-details/

    The Time story: http://time.com/4447985/inside-donald-trump-meltdown/?xid=homepage

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