10-31-2020, 02:50 PM
I for one don’t hate the Tea Party as it was once. They rejected the Republican establishment, and if anything were a little ahead of the Democrats in that regard. The nominees in 2016 reflect that. Trump was outsider, Clinton establishment. The Republicans were forced to listen to their people, the Democrats avoided it in the name of orthodoxy. However, the Tea Party people fell in love with an alleged millionaire and morphed into the Trump base. I don’t hate them. I think they are terribly misguided in who they follow. If the blue manage the transition, it will be for the best. The fanatic base will be a weight on the Republicans completing their irrelevance for a while.
But I still think you fail to understand Biden’s approach to events. Sure, cheering crowds would help gather votes, but Biden wouldn’t risk killing his people for that advantage. It was a choice he made reflecting how he would govern. Furious is not the correct word for how I see it. Closer to prudent. Biden gathers what people he can safely, which is why you hear honking horns at some of his events as the crowds are scattered and still in their cars.
The Don Lemon comment that the Republican base is like an addict does seem apt. They seem addicted to derivatives of Reagan’s policy, which has been taken well beyond the point of diminishing return. You can’t keep minimizing domestic spending and cut taxes without hurting the people. You can’t pander to the racists in this age of Black Lives Matter. Thus, increased poverty, college debts, objections to systematic racism and the rest. Still, many want to push the Reagan approach further, and the Republican establishment balks at that. The Tea Party people are hooked on a policy which has run its time. Returning to the time America was great, the time of tax and spend liberalism, would be proper for a while. A steady policy between the two would be better, but a bit much to hope for.
The Tea Party looked to first Palin then Trump. I sort of anticipate their hooking onto someone else. If they hooked onto the right somebody it wouldn’t be so bad. A conservative check to progressive policies ought to be part of the system. Not establishment would be good. Still, the establishment and the Tea Party have become Trump enablers, and Trump seem to be heading for a crash.
But I still think you fail to understand Biden’s approach to events. Sure, cheering crowds would help gather votes, but Biden wouldn’t risk killing his people for that advantage. It was a choice he made reflecting how he would govern. Furious is not the correct word for how I see it. Closer to prudent. Biden gathers what people he can safely, which is why you hear honking horns at some of his events as the crowds are scattered and still in their cars.
The Don Lemon comment that the Republican base is like an addict does seem apt. They seem addicted to derivatives of Reagan’s policy, which has been taken well beyond the point of diminishing return. You can’t keep minimizing domestic spending and cut taxes without hurting the people. You can’t pander to the racists in this age of Black Lives Matter. Thus, increased poverty, college debts, objections to systematic racism and the rest. Still, many want to push the Reagan approach further, and the Republican establishment balks at that. The Tea Party people are hooked on a policy which has run its time. Returning to the time America was great, the time of tax and spend liberalism, would be proper for a while. A steady policy between the two would be better, but a bit much to hope for.
The Tea Party looked to first Palin then Trump. I sort of anticipate their hooking onto someone else. If they hooked onto the right somebody it wouldn’t be so bad. A conservative check to progressive policies ought to be part of the system. Not establishment would be good. Still, the establishment and the Tea Party have become Trump enablers, and Trump seem to be heading for a crash.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
