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I have a feeling we're going to be putting policy on hold for a very long time.
Even after this dope is dead and gone.
As a result, there are going to be some permanent realignments.
The Reagan Coalition has broken apart with its varying components responding
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in stark contrast to one another with the presence of Trump.
This comment last night by Trump about not ever having to concern oneself about voting again is going to be met with all kinds of failure points across American society, most notably from the MSM.
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"You guys couldn't even save your own ship, so STFU! You don't get a say."
Man am I ever getting tired of seeing and hearing that.
In 2015-2016 we quickly became a minority in our own party as mass psychosis and cultism took hold.
We kept our sanity while those
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around us did not.
And it was shocking.
It really was like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Admittedly it was kind of frightening watching people we had known all our lives get caught up in this while they thought we were the ones who had changed.
So NeverTrump was
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"Right", "Left", as if they even mean anything anymore. This isn't the 20th century spectrum of collectivism v individualism or transformative change v incremental change.
I'm Pro-West!
IOW Reason, Enlightenment, Science, Free Markets, Liberty & Human Rights.
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When one has spent a lifetime identifying as "Right", or "Left", it's often hard to resist the temptation to attempt to make sense of everything within that framework. Especially if one had been more motivated by what they were against than what they were for.
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The freedom to innovate and compete without interventions and restrictions.
A preference for decentralized government when practical.
Moral clarity and realism in foreign policy which includes support of friends with whom we share values.
...<cont>... 1/ Military preparedness so any would be adversary knows always that any move against our interests would be a grave mistake.
The advantages of free trade and its benefits for consumers.
Incentivization of capital investment to encourage the risks taking required for ...
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When I woke up on the morning of 11/09/16 I felt sick.
I knew we were in for a rough four years.
I thought we just need to survive these next four years then America can recover, make some corrections and resume its rightful destined course.
Maybe I was wrong.
1/ Today, almost six years later, I see us in a more perilous place.
No longer do I care about what happens to my former party.
I do care about the future of the Free World.
And never in my life did I think, as an American, we'd be where we are today.
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@txsguy09 Thread:
In recent weeks I've seen rising tension between different NT friends I follow on twitter.
It was foreseeable that there would be differences of opinion over the best way to move forward once T**** was removed from office.
The fact is NT was never a monolithic group 1/ @txsguy09 where we were all in perfect lockstep over how best to advance American interests once the threat was disposed.
But neither was the Republican party, despite how much they tried through propaganda to make us such. Each and every one of us is an ideologically unique individual. 2/

Registered as a Republican

02/10/81 - 01/24/20 I sometimes wonder if Ronald Reagan were still alive if he'd be lamenting the 2nd time a party had left him. I can't speak for Dutch, but I have a strong suspicion he would be.