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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I voted yes. He is destroying the Republican Party and filling in the voids they ignore. The GOP is stuck in the 80s in 4th gear.
Because of him we are getting to see a bunch of complete idiots being humiliated.
Spicer, Priebus, Sessions, Cruz, Christie, Romney, McConnell, Ryan, who'd I leave out?
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I think the biggest problem with Republicans is how they seem to be relentlessly pursuing their dogmatic agenda past the point of sensible public policy. I think the attraction in the 80s in the move to lower taxes, reduce regulatory burdens and so forth was that there seemed to be some good in doing it. The idea of cutting red tape, and competitive taxation, and generically "smaller" government basically became orthodoxy. They won that war of ideas, but now it's way, way too much of a good thing.
Now, they don't know how to stop - it's now past the point of diminishing returns. The constant pursuit of a dogmatic agenda lower and lower taxes, cutting more and more programs actually severely harms society. Income inequality is grotesque, social safety nets are gone, unregulated marketplaces lead to economic catastrophe.
The democrats have largely bought into those free market principles but their approach is much more pragmatic and moderated - which is why I think Presidents like Obama and Clinton have been far better fiscal stewards that Republican ones, who slash important programs, spend elsewhere (Military) and lower taxes to such a ridiculous extreme that huge deficits result and massive debt accumulates.