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Meghan McCain worried that young people get wrong ideas about who the GOP really is.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/meghan-mccain-fears-trumps-racist-attacks-are-hurting-young-conservatives-im-concerned-about-the-next-generation/McCain said she was worried that Trump and his GOP apologists would give younger voters the wrong idea.
“Young people that are interested in conservative ideals only see this,” she said. “They only see race-baiting, and only the Trump administration, and what Republicans should be most concerned about right now, well, from my perspective, is what comes next, because we will be out of power. All politics is cyclical, and you’re going to have a bunch of millennials who think the entire Republican Party is — the person in charge, that thinks all communities of color are ‘infested.'”
“Young people that are interested in conservative ideals only see this,” she said. “They only see race-baiting, and only the Trump administration, and what Republicans should be most concerned about right now, well, from my perspective, is what comes next, because we will be out of power. All politics is cyclical, and you’re going to have a bunch of millennials who think the entire Republican Party is — the person in charge, that thinks all communities of color are ‘infested.'”
I would dare to speculate that she's a bit late.
Sure. Trump has instituted policies that specifically hurt latino immigrants, he has derided black communities and balck countries as infested shitholes and he has told jewish US-citizens that he believes their loyalty really lies with the state of Israel.
But that's not who the GOP is!
Before that came the Obama-administration with republican birtherism and constant attempts to otherize him. Who can forget the "terrorist fistbump?"
But that's not who the GOP is!
Before that came the George W. Bush-administration with their lies, with their bombings of foreign civilians, with their war-crimes, with torture and kidnappings. And the second-biggest economic crash in modern history.
But that's not who the GOP is!
Before that came the Reagan-administration, which started the War on Drugs and ensured that people using crack cocaine (black people) get a harsher sentence than people using powder cocaine (white people).
But that's not who the GOP is!
Before that came the Southern Strategy of Nixon, where the GOP intentionally embraced racism to mobilize voters in the southern US-states.
Oh, those stupid kids.
Why can't they understand that the GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility, the party of stable foreign-policy, the moral party that doesn't look kindly upon people who engage in sexual escapades and use bad words.
The party that preaches christian values and that can be trusted to treat immigrants like the Old Testament says and to treat their fellow people like the New Testament says.
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Especially talking heads like Ms McCain.
That character, if you remember, before the Gilead coup took place, when it was in its beginning stages, maybe like we are fast approaching now, she assumed that just because she was helping, even writing some of the policy giving men the final say in important matters etc..that she'd be fine. That was the way it should be. And so carried water for the rulers even when she started thinking there were problems with their paternalistic rule. Couldn't admit she was wrong. That it was not just one or two leaders it was the problem, but the entire fascist structure that she helped create.
But I'm probably giving Meghan too much credit.
