Longtime Republican official resigns from the party with a devastating rebuke of Trump's enablers

[riversedge]

Source: raw story




03 Sep 2018 at 14:43 ET



Michael J. London, a former member of the Trumbull Republican town committee in Connecticut, detailed in an opinion article multiple reasons why he left the Republican Party.
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London blamed President Donald Trump for the downfall of the GOP. He claimed that President Trump has transformed the party “into a lame, extreme right-wing group of people unwilling or unable to see the truth.”

“Trump is simply the worst president our country has had — ever. He is encouraging increased pollution and disavowing the need to halt climate change,” London wrote.

“He is taking credit for a strong economy when it was the previous president (like him or not) who set the current strong economy in motion,” he said.” He has separated immigrant mothers and children. He has, more likely than not, supported (or participated in) collusion with an enemy.”

He noted that Trump has embarrassed America on the global stage. ...........................................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/longtime-republican-official-resigns-party-devastating-rebuke-trumps-enablers/

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[Turbineguy]

1. Unfortunately

for every person like this, trump has a million idiots.

[Beartracks]

12. And those idiots will still always vote for the party that produced Trump...

... because they'll just think Trump is an anomaly rather than a natural outgrowth of GOP values and policy priorities.

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[dem4decades]

2. Guess who Republicans come to CT to get campaign money from? Guys like this.

Republicans shot themselves in the foot this time, they pissed off the donors.

[Iliyah]

3. well I like he gave credit to the previous President for

the economy.

[Achilleaze]

4. k and r

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

5. Why blame Trump? It was Reagan and Gingerich...

... that laid the ground work for the businessman first, statesman last congress we have today. But then you can also look to Prescott Bush Sr and his stipulation that Nixon be on Ike's ticket, too.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. We know who's really to blame for this mess:

Fox Snooze must have shown this to IQ45 when Trudeau insulted him after the G7 Summit.

God, I miss Robin Williams.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. But you know what?

All of them including those two ended up paying "lip service" to the deplorables while they stoked them enough to get their votes... and then eventually shoved them under the rug. But Drumpf did no such thing. He not only embraced them and highlighted them, but he made zombies out of the entire GOP in Congress to force them to bow down to his deplorables too.

The GOP always used them but I doubt they ever wanted them to take over. They should have learned their lesson after the astroturf teabaggers arrived on the scene and started tearing their party apart. What is left now is the carrion of a party being picked clean by the lowliest scum that is left to slime the earth.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

11. Good call...

... not much I can add!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. How is something from 2018-08-27 "Latest" or "Breaking" or "News" ?

[JHB]

7. To repeat my comments on the Coruant story about this guy from Fiday...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11078862

May this epiphany be the first of many for you, pal...

You believe in "smaller government"? Why, and what exactly does that mean? And do you mean the same thing with that same phrase as billionaires do? And if not, whose view do you thing will prevail if "government" is small?

Same thing for "tight budgets". The last wheezing gasp of Republican fiscal responsibility was GHW Bush going back on "read my lips, no new taxes" because the 1986 rates were unsustainably low. It's Dick Cheney who said "Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter." Why did you wait for Trump to quit?

Same thing for "lower taxes". During the Eisenhower administration there were 24 tax brackets. If you adjust for inflation, 2/3rds of them kicked in at taxable incomes above $250K. 11 of those kicked in above $500K. The top rate kicked in at income above $3.5 million. By Obama's administration your party had reduced it to 6 brackets, all under $500 K and only one above $250K. Obama wanted to add another one in the over250-under500 range, and your party called him "socialist".

Trump did not turn the Republican party into a "lame, extreme right-wing group of people unwilling or unable to see the truth." Trump is the sagging roof that makes the termite infestation undeniable. But the roof doesn't sag like that unless they've been at work for a long time. Long enough that it probably includes your entire career.

You spent your lifetime watching the Party of Lincoln be turned into the Party of Ahab, Mr. London. How often did you even notice? How much of that time did you spend cheering?

Vote Democrat, Mr. London. If you can't bear doing that, you're a Trumper, not an American. Go home to Russia.

[Ccarmona]

10. Meaningless Until Those Same Words Are Uttered by McTurtle & Lyin Ryan n/t

[rpannier]

13. Blaming the wrong person. This is not il douche's fault

He merely saw the signs and walked through the door
Lotta bad things can be said about trump, but he didn't cause this. He just took advantage of it

[BadGimp]

14. #PutinsWinsAgain and the GOP is now #ThePartyOfPutin

[cstanleytech]

15. This was already posted in LBN

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2148678