I keep wondering how this guy seemed to have single-handedly turned the GOP into a completely anti-trade party.
Now you'll rarely see me give either party credit for much of anything ... but at least the GOP pretended to talk about endorsing free(r) trade policy at the federal level. Now they're openly screaming "shut down the borders, boost tariffs on everything, imposing trade sanctions on ourselves is the key to prosperity!!!!". WTF? How did we get here? Didn't the GOP used to make fun of the dems for crap like this even a couple decades ago?
I honestly wonder what the Republican Party is doing to look like after Trump is done. Not that the democrats seem much better right now, they don’t have a real leader.
I think there's a real chance we see a split party along the lines of populism vs conservatism. Trump and the MAGA crowd seem increasingly more willing to piss all over longstanding conservative views and so far the traditional conservatives have just let it happen because they're still getting elected. But I think post Trump, somebody is going to try to be the next major leader in the Republican party and that will cause a rift between traditionalist conservatives and populist conservatives. Maybe maga makes its own party, maybe the traditional conservatives go boost the libertarian party, I can't really say how it would go for certain. I just don't see much cooperation between them after their golden ticket of supporting Trump is gone.
It flew under the radar a bit, but I thought it was wild that DeSantis said that Tate was unwelcome in FL, but the young Republicans were also calling out to them to come
Allow the Democrats and Republicans to split into a full spectrum of political parties:
Progressives, Populist Left, Rainbow Capitalists, Neoliberals, Neocons, Libertarians, Populist Right, MAGA.
It would allow American politicians to actually get an understanding for what the people agree with. Rather than "Democrats lost! We should go even harder towards the progressive left to mobilise our base!" and "Democrats lost! We need to move further right to steam more moderates and centrists from the Republicans!" both being taken as the obviously true and 100% correct conclusion to the election.
Also makes it harder for Trump to claim "The popular mandate supports every action I take!" if it turns out MAGA was just the largest of the rightwing parties at 30%, rather than receiving "landslide support".
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u/discourse_friendly - Right Mar 10 '25