- Joined
- Oct 6, 2007
- Messages
- 6,050
- Reaction score
- 0
Regarding philosophical lines, Trump is renouncing free trade and questioning our NATO commitments, both traditional Republican tenets. Columnist George Will has renounced the party.The GOP has never been as fractured as the Democrats along philosophical lines.
In fact, there really isn't any ideological schism in the GOP: their problem has come from being in denial in recognizing their own reflection in a Donald Trump presidency. They were in denial that the party's constituents were that vapid and clueless. Actually, Trump has brought a fair amount of valid policy to the GOP, ala FTA's.
The entire "the GOP is a party divided" nonsense was always exaggerated and based completely on disillusionment with a candidate's demeanor. The Dems are really being dragged kicking and screaming away from neoliberalism and corruption, which presents fairly stark differences that demand substantial structural change within the party and the banishment of the Clintons, Kaines, Wasserman-Schultz's, and Reids from the membership.
Regarding whether the party is divided, none of the 4 living previous Republican nominees attended the convention, nor did the Republican governor of Ohio. Among attendees, Trump's relatives outnumbered sitting Senators, one of whom refused to endorse Trump during his speech.