Thread by @ne0liberal

Good morning. Time for a thread on the GOP's platform, which can be found at GOP.com/platform.

This year they've decided not to even bother writing a new platform, instead using the 2016 version verbatim. And guess what: It's now more accurate!

"The current Administration has abandoned America’s friends and rewarded its enemies."

"We repudiate the absurd idea this is the best America can do."

"Our national debt is a burden on our economy and families. The huge increase in the national debt demanded by and incurred during the current Administration has placed a significant burden on future generations."

"The President has refused to defend or enforce laws he does not like, used executive orders to enact national policies in areas constitutionally reserved solely to Congress, made unconstitutional “recess” appointments to Senate-confirmed positions..." (1/2)

"He has changed what John Adams called “a government of laws and not of men” into just the opposite." (2/2)

"Our most urgent task as a Party is to restore the American people’s faith in their government by electing a president who will enforce duly enacted laws, honor constitutional limits on executive authority, and return credibility to the Oval Office."

"The current Administration’s way of dealing with these violations of world trade standards has been a virtual
surrender"

""The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk. Its gravest peril originates in the White House"

"Instead of facilitating change, the current Administration and its agents at the National Labor Relations Board are determined to reverse it."

"We condemn the current Administration’s unconstitutional expansion into areas beyond those specifically enumerated, including bullying of state and local governments in matters ranging from voter identification (ID) laws to immigration..."

"...the Administration’s policies systematically crippled
economic growth and job creation..."

"(The treaty system) was good enough for George Washington but is too restrictive for the current chief executive, who presumes to bind us to bilateral & multilateral agreements of his devising. His media admirers portray his personal commitments as done deals. They are not"

"All international executive agreements and political arrangements entered into by the current Administration must be deemed null and void as mere expressions of the current president’s preferences."

"The current President and his allies on Capitol Hill have used agencies as a superlegislature, disregarding the separation of powers, to declare as law what they could not push through the Congress"

Sidenote: "We support the right of the United States
citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state... Congress should approve an enabling act with terms for Puerto Rico’s future admission as the 51st state of the Union."

Hell Yeah

"Whatever their disagreements, presidents of both parties always prioritized our national interests, the trust of friendly governments, and the security of Israel. That consensus was replaced with impotent grandstanding by the current President and his Secretaries of State."

And finally:

"The current Administration has exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen against citizen."