America. This is your moment. You want to go farther down the fascism path? Or not. We know enough of you don't for that path to be blocked.
Though you blew it in 2016 we still hold trust in you. We understand.
You were the victim of a cold, calculated, deliberate attack. A massive fraud by a man and his co-conspirators. All well practiced in their game. That's it, clear and simple. A cheating maniacal megalomaniac shyster, and his enablers, took you to the cleaners.
That's ok. It's past. It's understood need and hope flooded reason. You believed him. You should have known, still fair enough as he was expert at manipulation too. Been doing that all his life too. Cheating and lying. Playing on the worst of the emotions. Fear. Fear. He conned you.
After four years we believe enough voters do understand.
Though the dream has been stripped from so many over years, even so that so much is now institutionally stacked against far too many, you still have it in you to recognize and choose between right and wrong. To recognize dysfunction and danger. To see bad people. We pretty much have to believe you will do right this time. The other is too terrible to imagine.
You've seen and experienced it. November 3, 2020 is your time.
The Grand Old Meltdown
"The Republican Platform Is a Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of Unreason It is a loyalty oath to a government of witchcraft."
Illustration by Matt Chase
By TIM ALBERTA
08/24/2020 04:30 AM EDT
Tim Alberta is chief political correspondent for Politico Magazine.
Earlier this month, while speaking via Zoom to a promising group of politically inclined high school students, I was met with an abrupt line of inquiry. “I’m sorry, but I still don’t understand,” said one young man, his pitch a blend of curiosity and exasperation. “What do Republicans believe? What does it mean to be a Republican?”
You could forgive a 17-year-old, who has come of age during Donald Trump’s reign, for failing to recognize a cohesive doctrine that guides the president’s party. The supposed canons of GOP orthodoxy—limited government, free enterprise, institutional conservation, moral rectitude, fiscal restraint, global leadership—have in recent years gone from elastic to expendable. Identifying this intellectual vacuum is easy enough. Far more difficult is answering the question of what, quite specifically, has filled it.
Bumbling through a homily about the “culture wars,” a horribly overused cliché, I felt exposed. Despite spending more than a decade studying the Republican Party, embedding myself both with its generals and its foot soldiers, reporting on the right as closely as anyone, I did not have a good answer to the student’s question. Vexed, I began to wonder who might. Not an elected official; that would result in a rhetorical exercise devoid of introspection. Not a Never Trumper; they would have as much reason to answer disingenuously as the most fervent MAGA follower.
I decided to call Frank Luntz. Perhaps no person alive has spent more time polling Republican voters and counseling Republican politicians than Luntz, the 58-year-old focus group guru. His research on policy and messaging has informed a generation of GOP lawmakers. His ability to translate between D.C. and the provinces—connecting the concerns of everyday people to their representatives in power—has been unsurpassed. If anyone had an answer, it would be Luntz.
“You know, I don’t have a history of dodging questions. But I don’t know how to answer that. There is no consistent philosophy,” Luntz responded. “You can’t say it’s about making America great again at a time of Covid and economic distress and social unrest. It’s just not credible.”
Luntz thought for a moment. “I think it’s about promoting—” he stopped suddenly. “But I can’t, I don’t—” he took a pause. “That’s the best I can do.”
When I pressed, Luntz sounded as exasperated as the student whose question I was relaying. “Look, I’m the one guy who’s going to give you a straight answer. I don’t give a shit—I had a stroke in January, so there’s nothing anyone can do to me to make my life suck,” he said. “I’ve tried to give you an answer and I can’t do it. You can ask it any different way. But I don’t know the answer. For the first time in my life, I don’t know the answer.” More - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=157849696
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